Religion and Media (Cultural Memory in the Present)
"I cannot overestimate the importance of this book, which will become mandatory reading for all courses in media studies, histories of religion, anthropologies of modernity, cosmopolitics, the global order, and new forms of sociality. Reading it has been a source of rare intellectual satisfaction and aesthetic pleasure."—Rosalind Carmel Morris, Columbia University"The collection of essaysReligion and Mediais an important contribution to a variety of disciplines, including but not limited to philosophy, media studies, sociology, religious studies, anthropology and literary theory. It is huge in scope, theoretically ambitious and is sure to become a stardard work in courses and seminars in media studies, literary theory and comparative religion where the status of the religious is at issue. . . . The volume itself offers a panorama of the most recent developments in the emergent nexus of religious studies, media studies, philosophy and sociology."—MEDIENwissenschaft"For those who see that research on religion and media is more than merely the intersection of two variables, the work in this book, particularly in the opening chapters, will be quite helpful. . . . In all, the text is a clear contribution to scholarship in a number of fields, and many of the chapters will prove useful in providing theoretical connections and language for more exmpirical study."—Journal of Media and Religion"At the end of the day,Religion and Mediaoffers so much of interdisciplinary value that the collection far exceeds the sum of its chapters.  These in turn illuminate the horizons of the volume as a whole.  In fact, I can't recall ever having underlined an anthology so densely.  At the very least the chapters are "good to think" and at best they activate the spirit of critical inquiry abiding at the heart of all the best conversations across disciplinary and philosohical differences."—Anthropological Quarterly"Hent de Vries and Samuel Weber's superb collectionReligion and Mediais one of the most important collections this year in the more amorphous field of religion and culture.  De Vries and Weber have gathered together some of the most significant names in critical and cultural theory over the last thirty years or so...to consider the relationship between its two titular terms."—The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory