Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g
Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g
ISBN: 978-1-138-71619-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Drawing together formative works from across the interrelated disciplines of religion and media, this collection will articulate the field of religion and media. Incorporating both historical and contemporary concerns, and a range of methodological approaches, this major work will focus upon the variety of ways in which religion and media impact, facilitate, and imbricate with each other.
The field encompassed by this collection is constantly changing and diverse. It covers a range of inquiry, from the age old questions regarding traditional human mediation of religious experience to the emerging problems associated with the study of religion and digital media and other developing technologies. Religion is mediated in a multitude of ways, including through the written word, artistic expression, electronic and digital technologies such as television and internet, as well as more evanescent modes such as ritual and performance. This series recognises the role that diverse media play in the interpretation and understanding of religion in the work of scholars and in the lives of religious individuals and communities.
The intersection of media and communication studies and religious studies is woefully under-representative of the relationship that media and religion has in theory, history and lived experience. The two disciplines have recently begun to address this, increasingly bringing together subjects from both fields. Thus a collection that compiles both foundational as well as recent scholarship on religion and media is a welcome addition, representing where the interest began but also moving scholarship in future directions. The work’s interpretation of ‘religion’ is broad, and encompasses not just religions traditionally recognised as such (eg. ‘world religions’) but also a more fluid recognition of religious behaviour (such as religions based on fiction or more abstract religious themes such as death).
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Acknowledgements, Introduction: digital mediations: old and new media, identity and community, and social media, PART 5. Theory and method, 19. Understanding the relationship between religion online and offline in a networked society, 20. Does the ‘old’ media’s coverage of religion matter in times of ‘digital religion’?, 21. A mediated religion: historical perspectives on Christianity and the Internet, 22. Who’s got the power? Religious authority and the Internet, PART 6. Identity and community, 23. Cyberspace as sacred space: communicating religion on computer networks, 24. Sin in cyber-eden: understanding the metaphysics and morals of virtual worlds, 25. Uses and gratifications of agnostic refuge: case study of a skeptical online congregation, 26. Young people, religious identity, and the Internet, 27. Atheisms unbound: the role of the new media in the formation of a secularist identity, 28. Rituals and pixels: experiments in online church, 29. Digital shapings of religion in a globalised world: the Vatican online and Amr Khaled’s TV-preaching, 30. Among the stones of Cyberhenge: modern Pagan ritual on the World Wide Web, 31. Techniques of religion-making in Sweden: the case of the Missionary Church of Kopimism, PART 7. Social media, 32 “See mom it is real”: the UK census, Jediism and social media, 33. Queer youth, Facebook and faith: Facebook methodologies and online identities, 34. How funny can Islam controversies be? Comedians defending their faiths on YouTube, 35. Social media and revolution: the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement as seen through three information studies paradigms
