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Record Nr.

UNINA9910154578203321

Titolo

Exploring religion and the sacred in a media age / / edited by Christopher Deacy, Elisabeth Arweck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-351-93757-X

1-138-26581-0

1-315-25561-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Collana

Theology and Religion in Interdisciplinary Perspective Series in Association with the BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group

Altri autori (Persone)

ArweckElisabeth

DeacyChristopher

Disciplina

201/.7

Soggetti

Religion and culture

Mass media - Religious aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2009 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The ethics of research in faith and culture : scholarship as fandom? / Tom Beaudoin -- 2. Media rituals : from Durkheim on religion to Jade Goody on religious toleration / Nick Couldry -- 3. Deepening relationships with material artefacts / Stephen Pattison -- 4. Contesting martyrdom / Jolyon Mitchell -- 5. Religionless in Seattle / Michael W. DeLashmutt -- 6. Marketing God and hell : strategies, tactics and textual poaching / Carlton Johnstone -- 7. The gospel of Tom (Hanks) : American churches and The Da Vinci code / Ellen E. Moore -- 8. From pulp fiction to revealed text : a study of the role of the text in the otherkin community / Danielle Kirby -- 9. Seeing the self as other : televising religious experience / Nicholas Buxton -- 10. Possession trance ritual in electronic dance music culture : a popular ritual technology for reenchantment, addressing the crisis of the homeless self, and reinserting the individual into the community / Rupert Till -- 11. Representation of religion in Pretty village, pretty flame / Milja Radovic -- 12. A secular gospel for the marginal : two films of Stephen Chow as Hong Kong cinematic parables / Yam Chi-Keung -- 13. What is 'on' : an exploration of iconographical



representation of traditional religious organizations on the homep. of their websites / Sarah Lawther -- 14. Researching theo(b)logy : emerging Christian communities and the Internet / Katharine Sarah Moody.