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Jeremy Stolow (b. 1965) is a Professor of Communication Studies at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.[1] Through his theoretical writings and historical and ethnographic research, he has contributed to the development of the interdisciplinary field of religion and media studies, with a particular focus on religious, spiritual, and esoteric dimensions of technology, material culture, visual culture, and the history of science.[2][3] Stolow is the author of two books, Orthodox By Design (2010)[4] and Picturing Aura (2025),[5][6] and editor of numerous interdisciplinary collections in religion, media, and culture.[7][8][9] [10][11][12] [12][13] His 2005 article, “Religion and/as Media”[14] is widely cited as a foundational theoretical text in the field.[15][16][17][18]

Education and Career

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Born and raised in Ottawa, Canada, Stolow received his BA in Philosophy in 1989 from the University of Toronto and then obtained his MA (in 1993) and PhD (in 2000) in Social and Political Thought at York University, under the supervision of Barbara Godard. From 2000 to 2002, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge, supervised by Bryan S. Turner. From 2003 to 2004, he held a postdoctoral position in the Center for Religion and Media at New York University. He joined the Department of Sociology at McMaster University in 2004 and in 2008 he moved to the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia. Among other visiting appointments, Stolow was a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in Amsterdam (in 2017-2018) and a Fellow at the Paris Institute for Advanced Study (in 2025-2026).[19][20]

Awards

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In 2000, Stolow’s doctoral thesis, Nation of Torah,[21] was awarded the York University Faculty of Graduate Studies Dissertation Prize. In 2010, his book, Orthodox By Design,[5] was chosen as a Finalist for the Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award (Scholarship Category) by the National Jewish Book Council.[22] In 2025, his book, Picturing Aura, won the Parapsychological Association Book Award.[23]

Selected Published Works

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Books

Picturing Aura: A Visual Biography (MIT Press, 2025).[5]

Orthodox by Design: Judaism, Print Politics, and the ArtScroll Revolution (University of California Press, 2010).[4]

Edited Collections

Deus in Machina: Religion, Technology, and the Things in Between (New York: Fordham University Press, 2013).[7]

Connect and Divide: The Practice Turn in Media Studies, co-edited with Erhard Schüttpelz, Ulrike Bergermann, Monika Dommann, and Nadine Taha (Berlin and Chicago: Diaphanes/University of Chicago Press, 2021).[8]

“Enlightening Religion,” co-edited with Birgit Meyer. Critical Research on Religion, Vol. 9, No.2 (2021).[9]

“Light Mediations,” co-edited with Birgit Meyer. Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief, Vol.16, No.1 (2020).[10]

“‘Visible-Invisible: Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere,” co-edited with Alexandra Boutros. The Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol.40, No.1 (2015).[11]

“Animer,” co-edited with Sébastien Denis. Intermédialités: Histoire et théorie des arts, des lettres et des techniques, No.22 (2014).[12]

“Inscriptions,” co-edited with Lisa Gitelman. Postscripts: Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds, Vol.4, No.2 (2008).[13]

Articles and Book Chapters

“Mediumnic Lights, Xx-Rays, and the Spirit Who Photographed Herself.” Critical Inquiry, Vol.42, No.4 (Summer 2016): 923-951.[24]

“Le synthétique sacré. Réflexions sur les aspects matériels des textes juifs orthodoxes.” Terrain, No. 59 (September 2012): 120-137.[25]

“Religion, Media, and Globalization.” In Bryan S Turner, ed. The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion (Oxford: Blackwell, 2010): 544-62.[26]

“Wired Religion: Spiritualism and Telegraphic Globalization in the Nineteenth Century.” In Stephen Streeter, John Weaver & William Coleman, eds. Empires and Autonomy: Moments in the History of Globalization (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2009): 79-92.[27]

“Salvation by Electricity.” In Hent de Vries, ed. Religion: Beyond a Concept (New York: Fordham University Press, 2008): 668-686.[28]

‘Religion and/as Media’. Theory, Culture and Society, Vol.22, No.4 (2005): 119-145.[14]

References

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  1. ^ "Jeremy Stolow - Concordia University". www.concordia.ca. Retrieved Dec 11, 2025.
  2. ^ "Religion et communication: du judaïsme orthodoxe au spiritualisme technique. Entretien avec Jeremy Stolow,” https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9782336359465_A49337622/preview-9782336359465_A49337622.pdf
  3. ^ https://entangledworlds.utoronto.ca/index.php/interview-with-jeremy-stolow/%7Ctitle=Interview with Jeremy Stolow
  4. ^ a b Stolow, Jeremy. Orthodox by Design: Judaism, Print Politics, and the ArtScroll Revolution. 1st ed., University of California Press, 2010. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppt6s
  5. ^ a b c Stolow, Jeremy. Picturing Aura: A Visual Biography. MIT Press, 2025. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262551748/picturing-aura/
  6. ^ Miranda Melcher. "(Interview) Picturing Aura: A Visual Biography by Dr. Jeremy Stolow," Jan. 2025. https://newbooksnetwork.com/picturing-aura
  7. ^ a b Stolow, Jeremy. Deus in Machina: Religion, Technology, and the Things in Between (New York: Fordham University Press, 2013). https://fordhampress.com/deus-in-machina-hb-9780823249800
  8. ^ a b Connect and Divide: The Practice Turn in Media Studies, co-edited with Erhard Schüttpelz, Ulrike Bergermann, Monika Dommann, and Nadine Taha (Berlin and Chicago: Diaphanes/University of Chicago Press, 2021). https://www.diaphanes.net/titel/connect-and-divide-4688
  9. ^ a b “Enlightening Religion,” co-edited with Birgit Meyer. Critical Research on Religion, Vol. 9, No.2 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2019.1696557
  10. ^ a b “Light Mediations,” co-edited with Birgit Meyer. Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief, Vol.16, No.1 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2019.1696557
  11. ^ a b Jeremy Stolow and Alexandra Boutros. "Visible/Invisible: Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere." Canadian Journal of Communication 2015 40:1, 3-10. https://doi.org/10.22230/cjc.2015v40n1a2977
  12. ^ a b c “Animer,” co-edited with Sébastien Denis. Intermédialités: Histoire et théorie des arts, des lettres et des techniques, No.22 (2014). https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/im/2013-n22-im01309/
  13. ^ a b “Inscriptions,” co-edited with Lisa Gitelman. Postscripts: Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds, Vol.4, No.2 (2008). https://journal.equinoxpub.com/POST/issue/view/1132
  14. ^ a b ‘Religion and/as Media’. Theory, Culture and Society, Vol.22, No.4 (2005): 119-145. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276405054993
  15. ^ Hirschkind, Charles (2011), "Media, mediation, religion." Social Anthropology, 19: 90-97. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8676.2010.00140_1.x
  16. ^ Morgan, David (2011) 'Mediation or mediatisation: The history of media in the study of religion’, Culture and Religion, 12: 2, 137-152. https://doi.org/10.1080/14755610.2011.579716
  17. ^ Hazard, Sonja (2013). "The Material Turn in the Study of Religion.” Religion and Society 4 (1): 58-78. https://doi.org/10.3167/arrs.2013.040104
  18. ^ Meyer, Birgit (2020). "Religion as mediation." Entangled Religions 11, no. 3: 1-21. https://doi.org/10.13154/er.11.2020.8444
  19. ^ "Jeremy Stolow - Institut d'études avancées de Paris". www.paris-iea.fr. Retrieved Dec 11, 2025.
  20. ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJsHhdprHGM
  21. ^ "SPoT ~ Jeremy Stolow's Dissertation Research Workshop Abstract". www.yorku.ca. Retrieved Dec 11, 2025.
  22. ^ "Jewish Book Council 2010 Announcement of Winners and Finalists." https://www.masslive.com/news/2011/03/area_philanthropist_harold_gri.html
  23. ^ https://mailchi.mp/parapsych/2025-pa-awards
  24. ^ Stolow, Jeremy. “Mediumnic Lights, Xx-Rays, and the Spirit Who Photographed Herself.” Critical Inquiry, Vol.42, No.4 (Summer 2016): 923-951. https://doi.org/10.1086/686962
  25. ^ Stolow, Jeremy (Sep 13, 2012). "Le synthétique sacré". Terrain. Anthropologie & sciences humaines (59): 120–137. doi:10.4000/terrain.14994. Retrieved Dec 11, 2025 – via journals.openedition.org.
  26. ^ “Religion, Media, and Globalization.” In Bryan S Turner, ed. The New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion (Oxford: Blackwell, 2010): 544-62. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444320787.ch24
  27. ^ Stolow, Jeremy. "Chapter 5 Wired Religion: Spiritualism and Telegraphic Globalization in the Nineteenth Century". Empires and Autonomy: Moments in the History of Globalization, edited by Stephen M. Streeter, John C. Weaver and William D. Coleman, University of British Columbia Press, 2010, pp. 79-92. https://doi.org/10.59962/9780774816014-007
  28. ^ https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1c5chhf