Practicing Religion in the Age of the Media Explorations in Media, Religion, and Culture

Name: Practicing Religion in the Age of the Media Explorations in Media, Religion, and Culture
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ISBN: 9780231120890

ISBN-10: 0231120893

ISBN-13: 9780231120890

Edition: 2001

Authors: Stewart Hoover, Lynn Schofield Clark

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Focusing on the crossover between the sacred and the secular, this volume gathers the work of media experts, religious historians, sociologists of religion, and authorities on American studies and art history.

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 3/6/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Stewart M. Hoover is the author of Religion in the News: Faith and Journalism in American Public Discourse,among other books. He is professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder.Lynn Schofield Clark is the author of From Angels to Aliens: Teens, the Media, and Beliefs in the Supernatural.She is assistant research professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Cultural Construction of Religion in the Media Age




Overview: The "Protestantization" of Research into Media, Religion, and Culture




Mediation in Popular Religious Practice



Protestant Visual Practice and American Mass Culture




Believing in Elvis: Popular Piety in Material Culture




The Mediation of Religion in the Public Sphere



Public Art as Sacred Space: Asian American Community Murals in Los Angeles




All the World's a Stage: The Performed Religion of the Salvation Army, 1880-1920




"Turn It Off!": TV Criticism in the Christian Century Magazine, 1946-1960




Religion Made Public Through the Media



Between Objectivity and Moral Vision: Catholics and Evangelicals in American Journalism




The Southern Baptist Controversy and the Press




Implicit Religion and Mediated Public Ritual



Scapegoating and Deterrence: Criminal Justice Rituals in American Civil Religion




Ritual and the Media




Explicit and Public Expression in New Media Contexts



Allah On-Line: The Practice of Global Islam in the Information Age




Internet Ritual: A Case Study of the Construction of Computer-Mediated Neopagan Religious Meaning




Religious Sensibilities in the Age of the Internet: Freethought Culture and the Historical Context of Communication Media




Specific Religions and Specific Media in National and Ethnic Contexts



Religious Television in Sweden: Toward a More Balanced View of Its Reception




Religious to Ethnic-National Identities: Political Mobilization Through Jewish Images in the United States and Britain, 1881-1939




Between American Televangelism and African Anglicanism




"Speaking in Tongues, Writing in Vision": Orality and Literacy in Televangelistic Communications



Contributors


Index