Rethinking media, religion, and culture
By: [edited by] Stewart M. Hoover, Knut Lundby.
Contributors: Hoover, Stewart M.; Lundby, Knut.
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
Subjects: Mass media -- Religious aspects; Mass media and culture; Religion and culture
Description: "The growing connections between media, culture, and religion are increasingly evident in our society today but have rarely been linked theoretically until now. Beginning with the decline of religious institutions during the latter part of the 20th century, Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture focuses on issues such as the increasing autonomy and individualized practice of religion, the surge of media and media-based icons that are often imbued with religious qualities, and the ensuing effect on cultural practices. Editors Stewart M. Hoover and Knut Lundby examine each of these issues and the implicatiors of major recent findings of religious, media, and cultural studies as they pertain to one another. In a primary effort, the leading class of contributors to this work effectively triangulate these three separate areas into a coherent whole. The book explores phenomena like rallies, rituals, and resistance as they are distinct expressions of religion often transmogrified into different mediated or cultural expressions. Book jacket."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"This book grows out of a conference titled Media-religion-culture held at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, in May of 1993"--Acknowledgements.