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Connections between word and image have been addressed throughout history. As part of the ongoing medialization of life worlds issues of the production, distribution and perception of images have become especially virulent. This is true not only for the century of mass media, but most notably for the age of digitization. The contributors of this volume ask how images can be produced, described and interpreted today, how we can orient ourselves in visual worlds, which skills are needed, and what it means to be able to understand visual worlds. - Zwischen Wort und Bild bestehen Zusammenhänge, deren Thematisierung in der Geschichte weit zurückverfolgt werden kann. Im Zuge der fortschreitenden Medialisierung der Lebenswelten sind Fragen nach der Produktion, Verbreitung und Wahrnehmung von Bildern in besonderer Weise virulent geworden. Dies gilt nicht nur für das Jahrhundert der Massenmedien, sondern vor allem für das Zeitalter der Digitalisierung. Der Band fragt, wie sich heute Bilder herstellen, beschreiben und interpretieren lassen, wie wir uns in Bilderwelten orientieren können, welche Kompetenzen dazu erforderlich sind und was es bedeutet, Bilderwelten verstehen zu können.

"The publications of the interdisciplinary and internationally networked Research Platform "World Order – Religion – Violence" seek to improve our understanding of the relationship between religion, politics and violence. It therefore deals especially with the return of religious themes and symbols into politics, with the analysis of the link between political theory and religion, and finally with the critical discussion of the secularization thesis. At the centre of the research are questions concerning the causes of violent conflict, the possibilities for a just world order and the conditions for peaceful coexistence on a local, regional, national and international/worldwide scale between communities in the face of divergent religious and ideological convictions. Its task is to initiate and coordinate thematically related research-efforts from various disciplinary backgrounds at the University of Innsbruck. It creates a network between departments, research-teams and single researchers working on topics of religion, politics and violence. The overall aim of the research platform World Order-Religion-Violence is to promote excellence in social and human science research on religion and politics at the University of Innsbruck and to guarantee the diffusion of this particular competence on a national and international level."