Authors:	Günther, Christoph
Title:	From the darkness into the light : narratives of conversion in jihadi videos
Online publication date:	17-Mar-2021
Year of first publication:	2020
Language:	english
Abstract:	In this chapter, I examine a specific format used by Jihadi-Salafi groups to offer an epistemic and ontological framework that helps people setting their individual biography in relation to this social collective. I trace the (re-)creation of two autobiographical narratives of religious conversion as they are presented in two videos authored by al-Muhajirūn and the Islamic State between 2016 and 2017. The epistemological interest of this chapter is to reconstruct the appropriation of key concepts from Islamic intellectual history and the teleological strategies employed in the audiovisual processing of these personal narrations. I will show the ways in which the videos’ authors use audiovisual means to construct and enhance the authenticity and plausibility of these individuals’ personal stories and their spiritual experiences.
DDC:	200 Religion 200 Religion 290 Andere Religionen 290 Other and comparative religions 300 Sozialwissenschaften 300 Social sciences 355 Militär 355 Military science 360 Soziale Probleme 360 Social services 770 Fotografie 770 Photography and photographs 791 Öffentliche Darbietungen 791 Public performances 960 Geschichte Afrikas 960 General history of Africa 990 Geschichte der übrigen Welt 990 General history of other areas
Institution:	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Department:	FB 07 Geschichts- u. Kulturwissensch.
Place:	Mainz
ROR:	https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI:	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-5692
Version:	Published version
Publication type:	Buchbeitrag
Document type specification:	Scientific article
License:	CC BY-NC-ND
Information on rights of use:	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Citation:	Jihadi audiovisuality and its entanglements : meanings, aesthetics, appropriations Günther, Christoph Pfeifer, Simone
Pages or article number:	148 170
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publisher place:	Edinburgh
Issue date:	2020
ISBN:	978-1-4744-6751-3
Appears in collections:	JGU-Publikationen