Sex, Religion, Media
Each chapter in this unique volume explores intersections of sex, religion, and media in our society. An interdisciplinary cast of contributors examines a wide variety of themes, including entertainment producers' roles in disseminating sexual and religious content; news coverage of stories about sex and religion; religious conservatives' efforts to influence media coverage of sex and 'values;' and how religious consumers are influenced by and react to sexual content in media.
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Each chapter in this unique volume explores intersections of sex, religion, and media in our society.
List of IllustrationsIntroductionPt. IThe Engagement and Avoidance of Sex and Religion in Media Production1Bernarr Macfadden's Physical Culture: Marketing Health by Selling Bodies, Health, and Morals32The Whore of Babylon, Suggestibility, and the Art of Sexless Sex in Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah (1949)213Religious and Sexual Images in Rock Videos: A Second-by-Second Analysis334The Muddled Middle: Protestantism's Encounter with Homosexuality since the 1960s435A Broken Trust: Canadian Priests, Brothers, Pedophilia, and the Media656The Silence of the Jewish Media on Sexual Abuse in the Orthodox Jewish Community79Pt. IIMedia Content, Conservatives, Sex, and the "Liberal Establishment"7"I didn't need to see the tattooed lady takin' it off': Evangelicals and Representations of Sexuality in Contemporary Film918Responses to Television from the New Christian Right: The Donald Wildmon Organizations' Fight against Sexual Content1019Magazine Coverage of the Man the Networks Love to Hate11510Morality Politics Associated with Abstinence-Only Sex Education Sought as a Remedy to Welfare Dependency123Pt. IIIMedia Content, Liberals, Sex, and the "Conservative Establishment"11The Organ in the Sanctuary: Silent Film and Paradigmatic Images of the Suspect Clergy13912Cult Sex: The Mass Media Reporting of Sexual Issues Surrounding New Religious Movements15313Issue Culture Analysis and the Gay/Lesbian Religious Controversy17114The Word on Sex: Biblical Interpretation on the Web and Constructed Realities18315Between Law and Love: Christianity, Politics, and Sexual Citizenship197Pt. IVMedia Agenda-Setting and Cultivation of Religion and Sex16The Disenchantment of Modern Sexuality: Packaged by Media into Weber's "Iron Cage"21717Family, Peers, Religiosity, Electronic Media, and the Risk of Adolescent Sexual Activity23518Media Cultivation and Perceptions of Sexual Morality in Church of Christ Adolescents25319"Oh God, My Kid Is Gay!": The Effects of Religious Belief and Media Consumption on Parental Ability to Accept a Lesbian, Gay, or Bisexual Child265ConclusionDane S. Claussen271Index283About the Editor and Contributors293
\ Journalism and Mass Communication QuarterlyA rich collection that does much to lay out the range of work in the field. Claussen demonstrates a keen sense for the issues in this collection that includes a broad cross-section of method, theory, and writing style. . . . Well-structured, engaging, entertaining, and thought-provoking. It would serve [as] a substantive reader on the topic for an academic audience or as a text for senior/graduate level students in an appropriate course.\ \ \ \ \ Archives Of Sexual BehaviorThis edited volume provides several snapshot views of sexuality and religious content in the media, and locates them within a historical context of how American religious organizations and media entities have interacted with each other in the 20th century. Data sources tapped by its authors range from interviews with individuals to empirical surveys to content analysis of news, magazines, films, and music videos. This book is a fascinating read for anyone who seeks to understand sexuality in a cultural context, and it treats organized religion as a definite part of that context.\ \ \ Journal Of Media and ReligionSex, religion, and the media are ubiquitous. But in the past, each has been studied individually. Therefore, a book such as this one that examines sex, religion, and the media together is a valuable contribution to the literature.\ \
