Christianity and the mass media in America
Subtitle: toward a democratic accomodation
By: Quentin J. Schultze.
Series: Rhetoric and public affairs series
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: East Lansing, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
Subjects: Mass media in religion -- United States.; Mass media -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Description: "Schultze demonstrates how religion and the media in America have borrowed each other's rhetoric. In the process, they have also helped to keep each other honest, pointing out respective foibles and pretensions. Christian media have offered the public as well as religious tribes some of the best media criticism - better than most of the media criticism produced by mainstream media themselves. Meanwhile, mainstream media have rightly taken particular churches to task for misdeeds as well as offered some surprisingly good depictions of religious life."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Conversing about faith and media in America; title: Praising technology : evangelical populism embraces American futurism; title: Leading the tribes out of exile : the religious press discerns broadcasting; title: Converting to consumerism : evangelical radio embraces the market; title: Searching for communion : the Christian metanarrative meets popular mythology; title: Communing with civil sin : mainstream media purge evil; title: Discerning professional journalism : reporters adopt fundamentalist discourse; title: Praising democracy : embracing religion in a mass-mediated society.