Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture
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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 this 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 implications 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. This collection should benefit the work of scholars and researchers in communication, media, cultural, and religious studies who seek a broader understanding of the two-sided relationships between religion and media, media and culture, and culture and religion.
Acknowledgments1Introduction: Setting the Agenda32At the Intersection of Media, Culture, and Religion: A Bibliographic Essay153Religion and Media in the Construction of Cultures374Technology and Triadic Theories of Mediation655The Re-Enchantment of the World: Religion and the Transformations of Modernity856Mass Media as a Site of Resacralization of Contemporary Cultures1027Escape From Time: Ritual Dimensions of Popular Culture1178The Dispersed Sacred: Anomie and the Crisis of Ritual1339The Web of Collective Representations14610Changes in Religion in Periods of Media Convergence16711Media, Meaning, and Method in Religious Studies18412Televangelism: Redressive Ritual Within a Larger Social Drama19413Resistance Through Mediated Orality20914Psychologized Religion in a Mediated World22715A Utopian on Main Street24616Making Sense of Religion in Television26317Media and the Construction of the Religious Public Sphere28318Summary Remarks: Mediated Religion298Index310About the Contributors329
