Author Biography
Marie-Therese Mäder is a teaching and research associate at the Centre for Religion, Economy and Politics and a member of the research group Media and Religion at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. Her monograph Die Reise als Suche nach Orientierung, published in 2012, explores the interface between film and religion in arthouse cinema. In 2015, she is a visiting scholar at the Comparative Media Studies/Writing department (CMS/W) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States. Her current research deals with audio-visual media and their interactions with the (self-)representation strategies of religious communities in documentary media with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a case study.
