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Practicing Religion in the Age of the Media: Explorations in Media, Religion, and Culture

Edited by Stewart M. Hoover and Lynn Schofield Clark

Paper, 304 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12089-0
$27.00 / £18.50

January, 2002
Cloth, 304 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12088-3
$83.50 / £57.50

Introduction: The Cultural Construction of Religion in the Media Age, by Stewart M. Hoover

1. Overview: The “Protestantization” of research into Media, Religion, and Culture, by Lynn Schofield Clark

Part 1. Mediation in Popular Religious Practice

2. Protestant Visual Practice and American Mass Culture, by David Morgan

3. Believing in Elvis: Popular Piety in Material Culture, by Erika Doss

Part 2. The Mediation of Religion in the Public Sphere

4. Public Art as Sacred Space: Asian American Community Murals In Los Angeles, by J. Shawn Landres

5. All the World's a Stage: The Performed Religion of the Salvation Army, 1880-1920, by Diane Winston

6. “Turn It Off!”: TV Criticism in theChristian Century Magazine, 1946-1960, by Michele Rosenthal

Part 3. Religion Made Public Through the Media

7. Between Objectivity and Moral Vision: Catholics and Evangelicals in American Journalism, by John Schmalzbauer

8. The Southern Baptist Controversy and the Press, by Mark G. Borchert

Part 4. Implicit Religion and Mediated Public Ritual

9. Scapegoating and Deterrence: Criminal Justice Rituals in American Civil Religion, by Carolyn Marvin

10. Ritual and the Media, by Ronald L. Grimes

Part 5. Explicit and Public Expression in New Media Contexts

11. Allah On-Line: The Practice of Global Islam in the Information Age, by Bruce B. Lawrence

12. Internet Ritual: A Case Study of the Construction of Computer-Mediated Neopagan Religious Meaning, by Jan Fernback

13. Religious Sensibilities in the Age of the Internet: Freethought Culture and the Historical Context of Communication Media, by David Nash

Part 6. Specific Religions and Specific Media in National and Ethnic Contexts

14. Religious Television in Sweden: Toward a More Balanced View of Its Reception, by Alf Linderman

15. Religious to Ethnic-National Identities: Political Mobilization Through Jewish Images in the United States and Britain, 1881-1939, by Michael Berkowitz

16. Between American Televangelism and African Anglicanism, by Knut Lundby

17. “Speaking in Tongues, Writing in Vision”: Orality and Literacy in Televangelistic Communications, by Keyan G. Tomaselli and Arnold Shepperson

Contributors

Index

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About the Author

Stewart M. Hoover is the author of Religion in the News: Faith and Journalism in American Public Discourse, among other books. He is professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Lynn Schofield Clark is the author of From Angels to Aliens: Teens, the Media, and Beliefs in the Supernatural. She is assistant research professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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