Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere

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Birgit Meyer, Annelies Moors
Indiana University Press, 2006 - 325 pages

.."". 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 movements address multiple publics and offer alternative forms of belonging, often in competition with the postcolonial nation-state. How have new practices of religious mediation transformed the public sphere? How has the adoption of new media impinged on religious experiences and notions of religious authority? Has neo-liberalism engendered a blurring of the boundaries between religion and entertainment? The vivid essays in this interdisciplinary volume combine rich empirical detail with theoretical reflection, offering new perspectives on a variety of media, genres, and religions.

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Public Piety and Popular Media in Egypt
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Media Evangelicals and Politics
52
Jewish
73
Copyright

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