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== Awards ==

== Awards ==

In 2000, Stolow’s doctoral thesis, Nation of Torah<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.yorku.ca/spot/grw/js.htm|title=SPoT ~ Jeremy Stolow’s Dissertation Research Workshop Abstract|website=www.yorku.ca|accessdate=Dec 11, 2025}}</ref>, was awarded the York University Faculty of Graduate Studies Dissertation Prize. In 2010, his book, Orthodox By Design<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ucpress.edu/books/orthodox-by-design/paper|title=Orthodox by Design by Jeremy Stolow – Paper|website=University of California Press|accessdate=Dec 11, 2025}}</ref>, was chosen as a Finalist for the Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award (Scholarship Category) by the National [[Jewish Book Council]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.masslive.com/news/2011/03/area_philanthropist_harold_gri.html|title=Area philanthropist Harold Grinspoon to be honored by Jewish Book Council for PJ Library|first=Anne-Gerard Flynn &#124; Special to The|last=Republican|date=Mar 8, 2011|website=masslive|accessdate=Dec 11, 2025}}</ref> In 2025, his book, Picturing Aura, won the [[Parapsychological Association]] Book Award.<ref>https://mailchi.mp/parapsych/2025-pa-awards</ref>

In 2000, Stolow’s doctoral thesis, Nation of Torah<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.yorku.ca/spot/grw/js.htm|title=SPoT ~ Jeremy Stolow’s Dissertation Research Workshop Abstract|website=www.yorku.ca|accessdate=Dec 11, 2025}}</ref> was awarded the York University Faculty of Graduate Studies Dissertation Prize. In 2010, his book, Orthodox By Design<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ucpress.edu/books/orthodox-by-design/paper|title=Orthodox by Design by Jeremy Stolow – Paper|website=University of California Press|accessdate=Dec 11, 2025}}</ref> was chosen as a Finalist for the Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award (Scholarship Category) by the National [[Jewish Book Council]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.masslive.com/news/2011/03/area_philanthropist_harold_gri.html|title=Area philanthropist Harold Grinspoon to be honored by Jewish Book Council for PJ Library|first=Anne-Gerard Flynn &#124; Special to The|last=Republican|date=Mar 8, 2011|website=masslive|accessdate=Dec 11, 2025}}</ref> In 2025, his book, Picturing Aura, won the [[Parapsychological Association]] Book Award.<ref>https://mailchi.mp/parapsych/2025-pa-awards</ref>

== Selected Published Works ==

== Selected Published Works ==

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”’Books”’

”’Books”’

Picturing Aura: A Visual Biography (MIT Press, 2025)<ref name=”auto2″/>

Picturing Aura: A Visual Biography (MIT Press, 2025)<ref name=”auto2″/>

Orthodox by Design: Judaism, Print Politics, and the ArtScroll Revolution] (University of California Press, 2010)<ref name=”auto1″>https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppt6s</ref>

Orthodox by Design: Judaism, Print Politics, and the ArtScroll Revolution] (University of California Press, 2010)<ref name=”auto1″>https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppt6s</ref>

”’Edited Collections”’

”’Edited Collections”’

Deus in Machina: Religion, Technology, and the Things in Between] (New York: Fordham University Press, 2013)<ref name=”auto1″/>

Deus in Machina: Religion, Technology, and the Things in Between] (New York: Fordham University Press, 2013)<ref name=”auto1″/>

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)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo28409402.html|title=Connect and Divide: The Practice Turn in Media Studies|editor-first1=Erhard|editor-last1=Schüttpelz|editor-first2=Ulrike|editor-last2=Bergermann|editor-first3=Monika|editor-last3=Dommann|editor-first4=Jeremy|editor-last4=Stolow|editor-first5=Nadine|editor-last5=Taha|publisher=DIAPHANES|accessdate=Dec 11, 2025|via=University of Chicago Press}}</ref>

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)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo28409402.html|title=Connect and Divide: The Practice Turn in Media Studies|editor-first1=Erhard|editor-last1=Schüttpelz|editor-first2=Ulrike|editor-last2=Bergermann|editor-first3=Monika|editor-last3=Dommann|editor-first4=Jeremy|editor-last4=Stolow|editor-first5=Nadine|editor-last5=Taha|publisher=DIAPHANES|accessdate=Dec 11, 2025|via=University of Chicago Press}}</ref>

“Enlightening Religion,” co-edited with Birgit Meyer. Critical Research on Religion, Vol. 9, No.2 (2021)<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032211015276|title=Enlightening religion: Light and darkness in religious knowledge and knowledge about religion|first1=Jeremy|last1=Stolow|first2=Birgit|last2=Meyer|date=Aug 1, 2021|journal=Critical Research on Religion|volume=9|issue=2|pages=119–125|accessdate=Dec 11, 2025|via=SAGE Journals|doi=10.1177/20503032211015276}}</ref>

“Enlightening Religion,” co-edited with Birgit Meyer. Critical Research on Religion, Vol. 9, No.2 (2021)<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://doi.org/10.1177/20503032211015276|title=Enlightening religion: Light and darkness in religious knowledge and knowledge about religion|first1=Jeremy|last1=Stolow|first2=Birgit|last2=Meyer|date=Aug 1, 2021|journal=Critical Research on Religion|volume=9|issue=2|pages=119–125|accessdate=Dec 11, 2025|via=SAGE Journals|doi=10.1177/20503032211015276}}</ref>

“Light Mediations,” co-edited with Birgit Meyer. Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief, Vol.16, No.1 (2020)<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2019.1696557|title=Light Mediations: Introduction|first1=Birgit|last1=Meyer|first2=Jeremy|last2=Stolow|date=Jan 1, 2020|journal=Material Religion|volume=16|issue=1|pages=1–8|accessdate=Dec 11, 2025|via=Taylor and Francis+NEJM|doi=10.1080/17432200.2019.1696557}}</ref>

“Light Mediations,” co-edited with Birgit Meyer. Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief, Vol.16, No.1 (2020)<ref>{{Cite journal|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2019.1696557|title=Light Mediations: Introduction|first1=Birgit|last1=Meyer|first2=Jeremy|last2=Stolow|date=Jan 1, 2020|journal=Material Religion|volume=16|issue=1|pages=1–8|accessdate=Dec 11, 2025|via=Taylor and Francis+NEJM|doi=10.1080/17432200.2019.1696557}}</ref>

“‘Visible-Invisible: Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere,” co-edited with Alexandra Boutros. The Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol.40, No.1 (2015)<ref>DOI:10.22230/cjc.2015v40n1a2977</ref>

“‘Visible-Invisible: Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere,” co-edited with Alexandra Boutros. The Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol.40, No.1 (2015)<ref>DOI:10.22230/cjc.2015v40n1a2977</ref>

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

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

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“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.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.59962/9780774816014-007/pdf?licenseType=restricted&srsltid=AfmBOooYlS_nFLDlLJvRQlnzGCfNgMQrzIP5ntLC7UL7uaPAscO7r5Y2|title=Empires and Autonomy: Moments in the History of Globalization|first=Jeremy|last=Stolow|editor-first1=Stephen M.|editor-last1=Streeter|editor-first2=John C.|editor-last2=Weaver|editor-first3=William D.|editor-last3=Coleman|date=Aug 15, 2023|publisher=University of British Columbia Press|pages=79–92|accessdate=Dec 11, 2025|via=www.degruyterbrill.com|doi=10.59962/9780774816014-007/pdf?licensetype=restricted&srsltid=afmboooyls_nfldlljvrqlnzgcfngmqrzip5ntlc7ul7uapasco7r5y2}}</ref>

“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.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.59962/9780774816014-007/pdf?licenseType=restricted&srsltid=AfmBOooYlS_nFLDlLJvRQlnzGCfNgMQrzIP5ntLC7UL7uaPAscO7r5Y2|title=Empires and Autonomy: Moments in the History of Globalization|first=Jeremy|last=Stolow|editor-first1=Stephen M.|editor-last1=Streeter|editor-first2=John C.|editor-last2=Weaver|editor-first3=William D.|editor-last3=Coleman|date=Aug 15, 2023|publisher=University of British Columbia Press|pages=79–92|accessdate=Dec 11, 2025|via=www.degruyterbrill.com|doi=10.59962/9780774816014-007/pdf?licensetype=restricted&srsltid=afmboooyls_nfldlljvrqlnzgcfngmqrzip5ntlc7ul7uapasco7r5y2}}</ref>

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

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

‘Religion and/as Media’. Theory, Culture and Society, Vol.22, No.4 (2005): 119-145.<ref name=”auto”/>

‘Religion and/as Media’. Theory, Culture and Society, Vol.22, No.4 (2005): 119-145.<ref name=”auto”/>

Scholar of religion and media studies

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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. Stolow is the author of two books, Orthodox By Design (2010)^[2] and Picturing Aura (2025)^[3][4], and editor of numerous interdisciplinary collections in religion, media, and culture.^[5]
His 2005 article, “Religion and/as Media”^[6] is widely cited as a foundational theoretical text in the field.^{[7][8][9][10][11]}

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.^[12] 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).^[13][14]

In 2000, Stolow’s doctoral thesis, Nation of Torah,^[15] was awarded the York University Faculty of Graduate Studies Dissertation Prize. In 2010, his book, Orthodox By Design,^[16] was chosen as a Finalist for the Nahum M. Sarna Memorial Award (Scholarship Category) by the National Jewish Book Council.^[17] In 2025, his book, Picturing Aura, won the Parapsychological Association Book Award.^[18]

Books

Picturing Aura: A Visual Biography (MIT Press, 2025).^[3]

Orthodox by Design: Judaism, Print Politics, and the ArtScroll Revolution] (University of California Press, 2010).^[19]

Edited Collections

Deus in Machina: Religion, Technology, and the Things in Between] (New York: Fordham University Press, 2013).^[19]

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).^[20]

“Enlightening Religion,” co-edited with Birgit Meyer. Critical Research on Religion, Vol. 9, No.2 (2021).^[21]

“Light Mediations,” co-edited with Birgit Meyer. Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief, Vol.16, No.1 (2020).^[22]

“‘Visible-Invisible: Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere,” co-edited with Alexandra Boutros. The Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol.40, No.1 (2015).^[23]

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

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

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.^[6]