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

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Stewart M. Hoover, Lynn Schofield Clark
Columbia University Press, 2002 M03 6 - 304 páginas

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.

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Introduction The Cultural Construction of Religion in the Media Age
1
1 Overview The Protestantization of Research into Media Religion and Culture
7
PART 1 Mediation in Popular Religious Practice
35
PART 2 The Mediation of Religion in the Public Sphere
87
PART 3 Religion Made Public Through the Media
163
PART 4 Implicit Religion and Mediated Public Ritual
201
PART 5 Explicit and Public Expressionin New Media Contexts
235
PART 6 Specific Religions and Specific Media in National and Ethnic Contexts
291
Contributors
361
Index
367
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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.

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