Cult/Art

IF 0.1 0 RELIGION Implicit Religion Pub Date : 2023-02-23 DOI:10.1558/imre.23203
[M] Dudeck
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The American presidency of Donald J. Trump has been notorious in its disregard for established norms, while his radical reformation of the American project have led many to equate his presidency to a work of “performance art.” The worship of his followers and the devotion of his Republican base have led to Trump being hailed as a “flawed redeemer,” and all those who worship him as a new form of “religious cult.” News and media anchors regularly refer to the former American president as a cult leader, a performance artist, or both; yet neither signifiers are ever contextualized within the history of religion, or western art by those who invoke them. Both the performance artist and the cult leader are contemporary media constructions that activate the religious imagination through intrigue and horror. As an artist inventing a religion as art, and a scholar of new religious movements, I present this article as an excavation of these signifiers and speculate upon their unique conflation around the unprecedented American presidency of Donald J. Trump.
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邪教/艺术
唐纳德·J·特朗普的美国总统任期因其无视既定规范而臭名昭著,而他对美国项目的激进改革导致许多人将他的总统任期等同于“行为艺术”。他的追随者的崇拜和共和党基础的忠诚导致特朗普被誉为“有缺陷的救赎者”,所有崇拜他的人都将他视为一种新形式的“宗教崇拜”。“新闻和媒体主播经常把这位美国前总统称为邪教领袖、行为艺术家,或者两者兼而有之;然而,在宗教史或西方艺术史上,这两个能指都没有被援引者置于语境中。行为艺术家和邪教领袖都是当代媒体结构,通过阴谋和恐怖激活宗教想象。作为一名将宗教视为艺术的艺术家,以及一名研究新宗教运动的学者,我将这篇文章作为对这些能指的挖掘,并推测它们在唐纳德·J·特朗普史无前例的美国总统任期内的独特融合。
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