Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere

Name: Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere
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ISBN: 9780253217974

ISBN-10: 0253217970

ISBN-13: 9780253217974

Edition: 2005

Authors: Birgit Meyer, Annelies Moors

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Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 12/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.25" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Birgit Meyer is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Free University, Amsterdam.Annelies Moors holds the ISIM Chair at the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, University of Amsterdam.



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Mediated Religion and its New Publics



Cassette Ethics: Public Piety and Popular Media in Egypt




Future in the Mirror: Media, Evangelicals, and Politics in Rio de Janeiro




Communicating Authority, Consuming Tradition: Jewish Orthodox Outreach Literature and Its Reading Public




Holy Pirates: Media, Ethnicity, and Religious Renewal in Israel




Public Religion and the Politics of Difference



Representing Family Law Debates in Palestine: Gender and the Politics of Presence




Morality, Community, Publicness: Shifting Terms of Public Debate in Mali




Media and Violence in an Age of Transparency: Journalistic Writing on War-Torn Maluku




Mediated Religion in South Africa: Balancing Airtime and Rights Claims




Rethinking the "Voice Of God" in Indigenous Australia: Secrecy, Exposure, and the Efficacy of Media




Religious Representations and/as Entertainment



Synchronizing Watches: The State, the Consumer, and Sacred Time in Ramadan Television




Becoming "Secular Muslims": Yasar Nuri Ozturk as a Supersubject on Turkish Television




Gods in the Sacred Marketplace: Hindu Nationalism and the Return of the Aura in the Public Sphere




The Saffron Screen? Hindu Nationalism and the Hindi Film




Impossible Representations: Pentecostalism, Vision, and Video Technology in Ghana



Contributors


Index