ABSTRACT For over a millennium, Catholic and Protestant traditions have deployed technologies to address the central paradox of the Christian faith: God’s absence after Easter. The following essay brings together scholarship on religious technics in the Christian Latin West during the medieval and early modern periods with a focus on the performance of presence. Medieval actors utilized an array of techniques, instruments, and contraptions to manifest the divine power present in holy matter. The movement of artifacts and people across medieval and early modern horizons mobilized and multiplied the effects of sacred proximity. The Society of Jesus’ emphasis on sensuality in worship and spectacle linked older forms of ritual piety with routinized religion. The shift from a predominantly Christian to modern culture in the West did not terminate organized religion’s close association with technology, but extended the experience of spiritual presence in the West through industrial and post-industrial, digital means.

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呈现神圣：拉丁西部的宗教和技术

摘要 一千多年来，天主教和新教传统已经部署了技术来解决基督教信仰的核心悖论：复活节后上帝的缺席。下面的文章汇集了中世纪和近代早期基督教拉丁西方宗教技术的学术研究，重点是在场的表现。中世纪的演员利用一系列技术、仪器和装置来展现神圣物质中的神圣力量。跨越中世纪和早期现代视野的文物和人的流动动员并扩大了神圣亲近的影响。耶稣会强调崇拜和景观中的淫荡，将旧形式的仪式虔诚与常规宗教联系起来。