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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785727903321

Titolo

Rethinking media, religion, and culture [[electronic resource] /] / [edited by] Stewart M. Hoover, Knut Lundby

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; ; London, : SAGE, c1997

ISBN

1-5063-3869-0

1-322-41836-5

0-7619-0170-1

1-4522-4645-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 332 p.)

Collana

Communication and Human Values

Altri autori (Persone)

HooverStewart M

LundbyKnut

Disciplina

302.23

Soggetti

Mass media - Religious aspects

Mass media and culture

Religion and culture

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

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I - Analysis of Media, Religion,and Culture; Chapter 1 - Introduction:Setting the Agenda; Chapter 2 - At the Intersection of Media,Culture,and Religion: A Bibliographic Essay; Chapter 3 - Religion and Media in the Construction of Cultures; Chapter 4 - Technology and Triadic Theories of Mediation; Part II - Media, Religion, and Culture: Contemporary Society; Chapter 5 - The Re-Enchantment of the World: Religion and the Transformations of Modernity; Chapter 6 - Mass Media as a Site of Resacralization of Contemporary Cultures

Chapter 7 - Escape From Time: Ritual Dimensions of Popular CultureChapter 8 - The Dispersed Sacred: Anomie and the Crisis of Ritual; Chapter 9 - The Web of Collective Representations; Part III - Media, Religion, and Culture: Changing Institutions; Chapter 10 - Changes in Religion in Periods of Media Convergence; Chapter 11 - Media, Meaning, and Method in Religious Studies; Chapter 12 - Televangelism: Redressive Ritual Within a Larger Social Drama; Chapter 13 - Resistance Through Mediated Orality; Part IV - Media, Religion,



and Culture: Individual Practice

Chapter 14 - Psychologized Religion in a Mediated WorldChapter 15 - A Utopian on Main Street; Chapter 16 - Making Sense of Religion in Television; Chapter 17 - Media and the Construction of the Religious Public Sphere; Chapter 18 - Summary Remarks: Mediated Religion; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

This book links the growing connections between media, culture and religion into a coherent theoretical whole. It examines amongst others, the effect on cultural practices and the increasing autonomy and individualized practice of religion.