From Yahweh to Yahoo! : the religious roots of the secular press / / Doug Underwood

• Autore: Underwood Doug
• Pubblicazione: Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (369 p.)
• Disciplina: 070.9
• Soggetto topico: Religion and the press - United States - History; Mass media
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Machine generated contents note: PART 1: THE RELIGIOUS ROOTS OF THE MASS MEDIA -- 1. Prophetic Journalism: Moral Outrage and the News 19 -- 2. The Profits of Reform: Printers, Capitalists, and the Priesthood -- of Believers 33 -- 3. Skeptics of Faith or Faith in Skepticism? Enlightening the -- Journalistic Mind 47 -- 4. Mystics, Idealists, and Utopians: Journalism and the -- Romantic Tradition 61 -- 5. Muckraking the Nation's Conscience: Journalists and the -- Social Gospel 76 -- 6. Mencken, Monkeys, and Modernity: A New Metaphysic for -- the Newsroom 88 -- 7. Pragmatism and the "Facts" of Religious Experience: -- The Model for a Synthesis 102 -- PART 2: RESEARCH, RELIGIOUS BELIEFS, AND THE -- ETHICS OF THE PRESS -- 8. Trusting Their Guts: The Moral Compass of a -- Doubters' Profession 117 -- 9. "I Will Show You My Faith by What I Do": A Survey of the -- Religious Beliefs of Journalists and Journalists' Faith Put -- into Action 130 -- 10. Religion, Morality, and Professional Values: A Study of the -- Ethical Sources of Today's Journalists 148 -- PART 3: SECULARISM AND THE NEWSROOM SEARCH -- FOR SUBSTITUTE FAITHS -- 11. The Cult of Science and the Scientifically Challenged Press 165 -- 12. The Mind of the Inquiring Reporter: Psychology and the -- Science of the Soul 179 -- 13. The Press, Politics, and Religion in the Public Squal-e 192 -- 14. Foundations of Sand: Technology Worship and the Internet 206 -- 15. The Gospel of Public Journalism: The News,roonm -- Communitarians and the Search for Civic Virtue 216 -- PART 4: JOURNALISM AFTER JESUS -- 16. Jesus without Journalists: Miracles and Mysteries, Minus -- Media Reports 233 -- 17. Visions of Mary and the Less Than Visionar y Plress: -- Religious Apparitions in the Framing of the Modern Media 249 -- 18. Proselytizing and Profits: The Growth of'l levangelism and -- the Collaboration of the Mainstream Press 253 -- 19. Pluralism and the Press's Blind Spots: lThe Coverage of -- Religious Diversity at Home and Atroad 264 -- Afterword 271 -- Notes 281 -- Selected Bibliography 319 -- Index 331.
• Sommario/riassunto: Presenting religion as journalism's silent partner, From Yahweh to Yahoo! provides a fresh and surprising view of the religious impulses at work in contemporary newsrooms. Focusing on how the history of religion in the United States entwines with the growth of the media, Doug Underwood argues that American journalists draw from the nation's moral and religious heritage and operate, in important ways, as personifications of the old religious virtues. Underwood traces religion's influence on mass communication from the biblical prophets to the Protestant Reformation, from the muckraker and Social Gospel campaigns of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to the modern age of mass media. While forces have pushed journalists away from identifying themselves with religion, they still approach such secular topics as science, technology, and psychology in reverential ways. Underwood thoughtful analysis covers the press's formulaic coverage of spiritual experience, its failure to cover new and non-Christian religions in America, and the complicity of the mainstream media in launching the religious broadcasting movement.
• Titolo autorizzato: From Yahweh to Yahoo
• ISBN: 9786613921659; 9781283609203; 1283609207; 9780252092688; 0252092686
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910972939703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: History of Communication