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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457593203321

Titolo

Religion, media, and the public sphere [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Birgit Meyer and Annelies Moors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2006

ISBN

9786612072697

1-282-07269-2

0-253-11172-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MeyerBirgit

MoorsAnnelies

Disciplina

261.5/2

Soggetti

Mass media - Religious aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Mediated religion and its new publics -- Public religion and the politics of difference -- Religious representations and/as entertainment.

Sommario/riassunto

""... one of those rare edited volumes that advances social thought  as it provides substantive religious and media ethnography that is good to think with."" -- Dale Eickelman, Dartmouth College Increasingly, Pentecostal, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, and indigenous movements all over the world make use of a great variety of modern mass media, both print and electronic.  Through religious booklets, radio broadcasts, cassette tapes, television talk-shows, soap operas, and documentary film these m