Practicing Religion in the Age of the Media: Explorations in Media, Religion, and Culture
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...
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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.
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Cultural Construction of Religion in the Media Age11Overview: The "Protestantization" of Research into Media, Religion, and Culture7Pt. 1Mediation in Popular Religious Practice352Protestant Visual Practice and American Mass Culture373Believing in Elvis: Popular Piety in Material Culture63Pt. 2The Mediation of Religion in the Public Sphere874Public Art as Sacred Space: Asian American Community Murals in Los Angeles915All the World's a Stage: The Performed Religion of the Salvation Army, 1880-19201136"Turn It Off!": TV Criticism in the Christian Century Magazine, 1946-1960138Pt. 3Religion Made Public Through the Media1637Between Objectivity and Moral Vision: Catholics and Evangelicals in American Journalism1658The Southern Baptist Controversy and the Press188Pt. 4Implicit Religion and Mediated Public Ritual2019Scapegoating and Deterrence: Criminal Justice Rituals in American Civil Religion20310Ritual and the Media219Pt. 5Explicit and Public Expression in New Media Contexts23511Allah On-Line: The Practice of Global Islam in the Information Age23712Internet Ritual: A Case Study of the Construction of Computer-Mediated Neopagan Religious Meaning25413Religious Sensibilities in the Age of the Internet: Freethought Culture and the Historical Context of Communication Media276Pt. 6Specific Religions and Specific Media in National and Ethnic Contexts29114Religious Television in Sweden: Toward a More Balanced View of Its Reception29515Religious to Ethnic-National Identities: Political Mobilization Through Jewish Images in the United States and Britain, 1881-193930516Between American Televangelism and African Anglicanism32817"Speaking in Tongues, Writing in Vision": Orality and Literacy in Televangelistic Communications345Contributors361Index367
\ Journal of the American Academy of Religion - Gustav Niebuhr\ It is diffucult to imagine that Hoover and Clark's collection will not work to inspire and encourage further research...The book should have considerable value to students of this field.\ \ \ \ \ \ Journal of the American Academy of ReligionIt is diffucult to imagine that Hoover and Clark's collection will not work to inspire and encourage further research...The book should have considerable value to students of this field.\ — Gustav Niebuhr\ \ \
