Kristin Bloomer, associate professor and chair of religion, presided over a panel she organized at the annual conference of the American Academy of Religion in November entitled, “Mediums, Media, and Mediators in Global Catholicism.” Paper topics included the films and ontology of André Bazin, transgressive devotion to Santa Muerte, Catholic cartography and the mapping of prejudice and praxis, and mediating Catholicism in a digital world. |