Religion in the media age / Stewart M. Hoover.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoover, Stewart M.

Series:

Religion, media, and culture series

Religion, media and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Religious aspects.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

ix, 341 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Summary:

Late modernity has produced a marked turn away from institutionalized religions towards more autonomous, individual forms of the search for spiritual meaning. Film, television, the music industry, and the internet are central to this process, cutting through the monolithic assertions of world religions and giving access to more diverse and fragmented ideals. While the volume and variety of information travelling through global media changes modes of religious thought and commitment, the human desire for spirituality also invigorates popular culture itself, recreating commodities--film blockbusters, world sport, popular music--as contexts for religious meaning. Looking at the everyday interaction of religion and media in our cultural lives, and using extensive empirical research into household media consumption, "Religion in" "the Media Age "is an exciting new assessment of the state of modern religiosity.

Contents:

What this book could be about

From medium to meaning : the evolution of theories about media, religion, and culture

Media and religion in transition

Articulating life and culture in the media age : plausible narratives of the self

Reception of religion and media

Cultural objects and religious identity among born-agains and mainstream believers

Cultural objects and religious identity among metaphysical believers, dogmatists, and secularists

Representing outcomes

Media and public religious culture post-09/11/01 and post-11/2/04

Conclusion : what is produced?

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-330) and index.

ISBN:

0415314224

0415314232

0203503201

OCLC:

62152779

Publisher Number:

9780415314220 (hbk)

9780415314237 (pbk)

9780203503201 (e-bk)