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Practicing Religion in the Age of the Media

Explorations in Media, Religion, and Culture
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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 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. The issues that the essays address include the public/private divide, the distinctions between the sacred and profane, and how to distinguish between the practices that may be termed "religious" and those that may not.

Author Biography:

Stewart M. Hoover is the author of Religion in the News: Faith and Journalism in American Public Discourse, among other books. He is professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where Lynn Schofield Clark is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Mass Media Research.
Release date NZ
March 6th, 2002
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Edited by Lynn Schofield Clark
  • Edited by Stewart M. Hoover
Pages
304
Dimensions
152x229x22
ISBN-13
9780231120890
Product ID
4051205

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