Practicing religion in the age of the media : explorations in media, religion, and culture /

Increasingly, the religious practices people engage in and the ways they talk about what is meaningful or sacred take place in the context of media culture?in the realm of the so-called secular. Focusing on this intersection of the sacred and the secular, this volume gathers together the work of med...

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Other Authors: Hoover, Stewart M., Clark, Lynn Schofield
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2002]
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Table of Contents:
  • The "Protestantization" of research into media, religion, and culture / Lyn Schofield Clark
  • Protestant visual practice and American mass culture / David Morgan
  • Believing in Elvis: popular piety in material culture / Erika Doss
  • Public art as sacred space: Asian American community murals in Los Angeles / J. Shawn Landres
  • All the world's a stage: the performed religion of the Salvation Army, 1880-1920 / Diane Winston
  • "Turn it off!": TV criticism in the Christian century magazine, 1946-1960 / Michele Rosenthal
  • Between objectivity and moral vision: Catholics and Evangelicals in American journalism / John Schmalzbauer
  • The Southern Baptist controversy and the press / Mark G. Borchert
  • Scapegoating and deterrence: criminal justice rituals in American civil religion / Carolyn Marvin
  • Ritual and the media / Ronald L. Grimes
  • Allah on-line: the practice of global Islam in the information age / Bruce B. Lawrence
  • Internet ritual: a case study of the construction of computer-mediated neopagan religious meaning / Jan Fernback
  • Religious sensibilities in the age of the Internet: freethought culture and the historical context of communication media / David Nash
  • Religious television in Sweden: toward a more balanced view of its reception / Alf Linderman
  • Religious to ethnic-national identities: political mobilization through Jewish images in the United States and Britain, 1881-1939 / Michael Berkowitz
  • Between American televangelism and African Angelicanism / Knut Lundby
  • "Speaking in tongues, writing in vision": orality and literacy in televangelistic communications / Keyan G. Tomaselli and Arnold Shepperson.