Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture

Stewart M. Hoover, Knut Lundby, Stewart Hoover, Knut Lundby

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 1997
• Print ISBN:
  9780761901716
  9780761901709
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781506338699
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Communication Studies
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

The growing connections between media, culture, and religion are increasingly evident in our society today but have rarely been linked theoretically until now. Beginning with the decline of religious institutions during the latter part of this century, Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture focuses on issues such as the increasing autonomy and individualized practice of religion, the surge of media and media-based icons that are often imbued with religious qualities, and the ensuing effect on cultural practices. Editors Stewart M. Hoover and Knut Lundby examine each of these issues and the implications of major recent findings of religious, media, and cultural studies as they pertain to one another. In a primary effort, the leading class of contributors to this work effectively triangulate these three separate areas into a coherent whole. The book explores phenomena like rallies, rituals, and resistance as they are distinct expressions of religion often transmogrified into different mediated or cultural expressions. This collection should benefit the work of scholars and researchers in communication, media, cultural, and religious studies who seek a broader understanding of the two-sided relationships between religion and media, media and culture, and culture and religion.

Index

A Course in Miracles, 227, 244

ABC (network), 21

Abelman, R., 19, 33

Actualization of meaning, individual, 270-271, 272f, 273-274, 275f

Affective, 31

Affirmative access, 220

African Protestant church, 251

Aftenposten, 162n

Agency, 250

Agrarian rites and ceremonies, 124

Agriculture, 67

AIDS, 94

Albanese, C., 29-31, 33, 284-285, 291, 295

Alexander, B. C., 207, 207n

Alexander, Bobby, 6, 10, 13, 31-32, 162, 162n

Alexander, J., 149, 162

Allen, J., 21, 31, 33

Allen, M., 234, 244

Alley, R., 43, 47-48, 63

Alterity, 250, 258

American culture, 234

American evangelicalism, 59

American Protestant church, 91, 96

Amin, S., 232, 239-240, 244

Ammerman, N., 286, 295

Analysis, 1-82

communication theory, 74-76

critical theory, 249-252, 303

cross-disciplinary approach, 10-11

Durkheim’s theory of representations, 147-148

empirical reception, 276-277, 279-280

feminist critical theory, 249-252

interdisciplinary approach, 15-36

macro-level, 6

mediation theory, 303-304

meso-level, 6

micro-level, 6

previous approaches, 9-10

structuration theory, 303

Anomie, 133-145

Anthropology:

definition of technology, 79n

religious, 287-288

Appleby, S., 285, 296

Archer, M. S., 88, 100

Arendt, Hannah, 80n

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• I Analysis of Media, Religion, and Culture
• II Media, Religion, and Culture: Contemporary Society
• III Media, Religion, and Culture: Changing Institutions
• IV Media, Religion, and Culture: Individual Practice
• Index
• About the Contributors