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Catholics and the Magic Lantern
As part of our research for the B-magic project, Sabine Lenk and I have published two articles on the French and Belgian catholics’ use of the magic lantern.
The first one, “Fighting the Enemy with the Lantern: how French and Belgian Catholic priests lectured against their common laic enemies before 1914” appeared in a special issue of Early Popular Visual Culture edited by Joe Kember. It deals in particular with the creation of projections services by the Catholic church during the first decade of the 20th century. The article can be found open access here.
The second article, “Projecting Faith: French and Belgian Catholics and the Magic Lantern before the First World War was published in a special issue of the journal Material Religion. It deals with the Catholics’ projection practices. This article can be found open access here.