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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791725103321

Autore

Hoover Stewart M

Titolo

Religion in the News [[electronic resource] ] : Faith and Journalism in American Public Discourse

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, : SAGE Publications, 1998

ISBN

1-4833-2844-9

1-4522-5138-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Disciplina

302.230973

306.60973

Soggetti

Journalism, Religious

Mass media

Mass media -- Religious aspects

Religion and culture

Religion and the press

Religious aspects

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 - Religion in the News; Chapter 2 - Approaches to Understanding; Chapter 3 - Discourses of Contemporary Religion; Chapter 4 - The Source of the Problem?; Chapter 5 - Looking at Religion; Chapter 6 - Reading and Watching Religion; Chapter 7 - The Audience for Religion; Chapter 8 - Religion and the Media in Conflict; Chapter 9 - Religion and Broadcasting; Chapter 10 - The Challenge of Standards; Chapter 11 - To be the Discourse or Merely to Cover It; Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Stewart M Hoover offers a cultural-historical analysis of the rise of religious stories in the media - the Islamic Revolution in Iran, televangelism and its scandals, the political agenda of the Evangelical New Right, to name but a few.   The author's penetrating analysis brings into sharp focus: the relationship between religion and the news media, both in everyday practice and in the larger context of American



public discourse; the place of religion in American life; the role of the media in cultural discourse; and the prospects of institutional religion in the media age.