Religion, media, and the public sphere / edited by Birgit Meyer and Annelies Moors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Meyer, Birgit.

Moors, Annelies.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Religious aspects.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""... one of those rare edited volumes that advances social thought as it provides substantive religious and media ethnography that is good to think with."" -- Dale Eickelman, Dartmouth College Increasingly, Pentecostal, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, and indigenous movements all over the world make use of a great variety of modern mass media, both print and electronic. Through religious booklets, radio broadcasts, cassette tapes, television talk-shows, soap operas, and documentary film these m

Contents:

Mediated religion and its new publics

Public religion and the politics of difference

Religious representations and/as entertainment.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612072697

1-282-07269-2

0-253-11172-2

OCLC:

476022169