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Religion and Media

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ISBN-10: 0804734968

ISBN-13: 9780804734967

Edition: 2001

Authors: Hent de Vries, Samuel Weber

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The 25 contributors to this volume confront the conceptual, analytical, and empirical difficulties involved in addressing the complex relationship between religion and media.
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Book details

List price: $160.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 9/1/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 672
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 2.2
Language: English

Contributors
Introducing the Concepts
In Media Res: Global Religion, Public Spheres, and the Task of Contemporary Comparative Religious Studies
Religion, Repetition, Media
"Above All, No Journalists!"
Theory on TV: "After-Thoughts"
The Deconstruction of Christianity
Reading a Modern Classic: W. C. Smith's The Meaning and End of Religion
Seeing and Believing: Historical and Philosophical Considerations
Mimesis and the Ban on Graven Images
In the Workshop of Equivalences: Translation, Institutions, and Media in the Jesuit Re-Formation of China
Images of Iron: Ignatius of Loyola and Joyce
Luther with McLuhan
Tele-vision: Between Blind Trust and Perceptual Faith
"The Catholicism of Cinema": Gilles Deleuze on Image and Belief
Mission Impossible: Postcards, Pictures, and Parasites
Local Rites, Global Media: Critical and Anthropological Approaches
Kiblat and the Mediatic Jew
The Cassowary Will (Not) Be Photographed: The "Primitive," the "Japanese," and the Elusive "Sacred" (Aru, Southeast Moluccas)
A Remaking of Hinduism?: or, Taking the Mickey Out of Valmiki
Mirror Image: Layered Narratives in Photographic and Televised Mediations of Ise's Shikinen Sengu
Reconciliation Without Justice
Channel-Surfing: Media, Mediumship, and State Authority in the Maria Lionza Possession Cult (Venezuela)
Production of Fundamentalism: On the Dynamics of Producing the Radically Different
Filmic Judgment and Cultural Critique: The Work of Art, Ethics, and Religion in Iranian Cinema
The Aboriginal Medium: Negotiating the Caesura of Exchange
Before the Law: Reading the Yuendumu Doors with Eric Michaels
Two Documents
The Religious Medium
Morality and the Secrets of Religion
Notes