The growing connections between media, culture, and religion are increasingly evident in our society today but have rarely been linked theoretically until now. Beginning with the decline of religious institutions during the latter part of this century, Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture focuses on issues such as the increasing autonomy and individualized practice of religion, the surge of media and media-based icons that are often imbued with religious qualities, and the ensuing effect on cultural practices. Editors Stewart M. Hoover and Knut Lundby examine each of these issues and the implications of major recent findings of religious, media, and cultural studies as they pertain to one another. In a primary effort, the leading class of contributors to this work effectively triangulate these three separate areas into a coherent whole. The book explores phenomena like rallies, rituals, and resistance as they are distinct expressions of religion often transmogrified into different mediated or cultural expressions. This collection should benefit the work of scholars and researchers in communication, media, cultural, and religious studies who seek a broader understanding of the two-sided relationships between religion and media, media and culture, and culture and religion.
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PART ONE: ANALYSIS OF MEDIA, RELIGION, AND CULTURE
Introduction - Stewart M Hoover and Knut Lundby
Setting the Agenda
At the Intersection of Media, Culture, and Religion - Lynn Schofield Clark and Stewart M Hoover
A Bibliographical Essay
Religion and Media in the Construction of Cultures - Robert A White
Technology and Triadic Theories of Mediation - Clifford G Christians
PART TWO: MEDIA, RELIGION, AND CULTURE: CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY
The Re-Enchantment of the World - Graham Murdock
Religion and the Transformations of Modernity
Mass Media as a Site of Resacralization of Contemporary Cultures - Jesús Martín-Barbero
Escape from Time - Gregor Goethals
Ritual Dimensions of Popular Culture
The Dispersed Sacred - Gabriel Bar-Haim
Anomie and the Crisis of Ritual
The Web of Collective Representations - Knut Lundby
PART THREE: MEDIA, RELIGION, AND CULTURE: CHANGING INSTITUTIONS
Changes in Religion in Periods of Media Converegnce - Peter G Horsfield
Media, Meaning and Method in Religious Studies - Chris Arthur
Televangelism - Bobby C Alexander
Redressive Ritual within a Larger Social Drama
Resistance through Mediated Orality - Keyan G Tomaselli and Arnold Shepperson
PART FOUR: MEDIA, RELIGION, AND CULTURE: INDIVIDUAL PRACTICE
Psychologized Religion in a Mediated World - Janice A Peck
A Utopian on Main Street - Claire Hoertz Badaracco
Making Sense of Religion in Television - Alf Linderman
Media and the Construction of the Religious Public Sphere - Stewart M Hoover
Summary Remarks - Knut Lundby and Stewart M Hoover
Mediated Religion
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ISBN
9780761901709
Publisert
1997-04-08
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SAGE Publications Inc
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740 gr
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228 mm
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152 mm
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P, 06
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Engelsk
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342