Practicing religion in the age of the media : explorations in media, religion, and culture / Stewart M. Hoover and Lynn Schofield Clark, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hoover, Stewart M.

Clark, Lynn Schofield.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Religious aspects.

Mass media.

Mass media and culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (399 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Increasingly, the religious practices people engage in and the ways they talk about what is meaningful or sacred take place in the context of media culture-in the realm of the so-called secular. Focusing on this intersection of the sacred and the secular, this volume gathers together the work of media experts, religious historians, sociologists of religion, and authorities on American studies and art history. Topics range from Islam on the Internet to the quasi-religious practices of Elvis fans, from the uses of popular culture by the Salvation Army in its early years to the uses of interactive media technologies at the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Beit Hashoah Museum of Tolerance. The issues that the essays address include the public/private divide, the distinctions between the sacred and profane, and how to distinguish between the practices that may be termed "religious" and those that may not.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction: The Cultural Construction of Religion in the Media Age / Hoover, Stewart M.

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

Part I: MEDIATION IN POPULAR RELIGIOUS PRACTICE

2. Protestant Visual Practice and American Mass Culture / Morgan, David

3. Believing in Elvis: Popular Piety in Material Culture / Doss, Erika

PART 2. THE MEDIATION OF RELIGION IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE

4. Public Art as Sacred Space: Asian American Community Murals in Los Angeles / Shawn Landres, J.

5. All the World's a Stage: The Performed Religion of the Salvation Army, 1880-1920 / Winston, Diane

6. "Turn It Off !": TV Criticism in the Christian Century Magazine, 1946-1960 / Rosenthal, Michele

PART 3. RELIGION MADE PUBLIC THROUGH THE MEDIA

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

8. The Southern Baptist Controversy and the Press / Borchert, Mark G.

PART 4. IMPLICIT RELIGION AND MEDIATED PUBLIC RITUAL

9. Scapegoating and Deterrence: Criminal Justice Rituals in American Civil Religion / Marvin, Carolyn

10. Ritual and the Media / Grimes, Ronald L.

PART 5. EXPLICIT AND PUBLIC EXPRESSION IN NEW MEDIA CONTEXTS

11. Allah On-Line: The Practice of Global Islam in the Information Age / Lawrence, Bruce B.

12. Internet Ritual: A Case Study of the Construction of Computer-Mediated Neopagan Religious Meaning / Fernback, Jan

13. Religious Sensibilities in the Age of the Internet: Freethought Culture and the Historical Context of Communication Media / Nash, David

PART 6. SPECIFIC RELIGIONS AND SPECIFIC MEDIA IN NATIONAL AND ETHNIC CONTEXTS

14. Religious Television in Sweden: Toward a More Balanced View of Its Reception / Linderman, Alf

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

16. Between American Televangelism and African Anglicanism / Lundby, Knut

17. "Speaking in Tongues, Writing in Vision": Orality and Literacy in Televangelistic Communications / Tomaselli, Keyan G. / Shepperson, Arnold

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780231505215

0231505213

OCLC:

828303751