Practicing religion in the age of the media
Subtitle: explorations in media, religion, and culture
By: Stewart M. Hoover and Lynn Schofield Clark, editors.
Contributors: Hoover, Stewart M.; Clark, Lynn Schofield.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
Subjects: Mass media -- Religious aspects.; Mass media and culture.
Description: 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 o.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: The Cultural Construction of Religion in the Media Age Stewart M. Hoover I 1. Overview: The "Protestantization" of Research into Media, Religion, and Culture Lynn Schofield Clark 7 PART I. Mediation in Popular Religious Practice 35 2. Protestant Visual Practice and American Mass Culture David Morgan 37 3. Believing in Elvis: Popular Piety in Material Culture Erika Doss 63 PART 2. The Mediation of Religion in the Public Sphere 87 4. Public Art as Sacred Space: Asian American Community Murals in Los Angeles J. Shawn Landres 91 5. All the World's a Stage: The Performed Religion of the Salvation Army, 1880-1920 Diane Winston 113 6. "Turn It Off!": TV Criticism in the Christian Century Magazine, 1946-1960 Michele Rosenthal 138 PART 3. Religion Made Public Through the Media 163 7. Between Objectivity and Moral Vision: Catholics and Evangelicals in American Journalism John Schmalzbauer 165 8. The Southern Baptist Controversy and the Press Mark G. Borchert 188 PART 4. Implicit Religion and Mediated Public Ritual 201 9. Scapegoating and Deterrence: Criminal Justice Rituals in American Civil Religion Carolyn Marvin 203 10. Ritual and the Media Ronald L. Grimes 219 PART 5. Explicit and Public Expression in New Media Contexts 235 11. Allah On-Line: The Practice of Global Islam in the Information Age Bruce B. Lawrence 237 12. Internet Ritual: A Case Study of the Construction of Computer-Mediated Neopagan Religious Meaning Jan Ferback 254 13. Religious Sensibilities in the Age of the Internet: Freethought Culture and the Historical Context of Communication Media David Nash 276 PART 6. Specific Religions and Specific Media in National and Ethnic Contexts 291 14. Religious Television in Sweden: Toward a More Balanced View of Its Reception Alf Linderman 295 15. Religious to Ethnic-National Identities: Political Mobilization ThroughJewish Images in the United States and Britain, I88I-I939 Michael Berkowitz 305 16. Between American Televangelism and African Anglicanism Knut Lundby 328 17. "Speaking in Tongues, Writing in Vision": Orality and Literacy in Televangelistic Communications Keyan G. Tomaselli and Arnold Shepperson 345.