Religion in the Media Age
eBook - ePub

Religion in the Media Age

  1. 390 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Religion in the Media Age

About this book

Looking at the everyday interaction of religion and media in our cultural lives, Hoover's book is a fascinating assessment of the state of modern religion. This revised second edition now looks at the digital age, "new media" and the significant role of social media on religion today. While the sheer volume and variety of information traveling through global media changes modes of religious thought and commitment, the human desire for spirituality also invigorates popular culture itself, recreating commodities – film blockbusters, world sport, politics, and popular music – as contexts for religious meanings.

Drawing on research into household media consumption, Hoover charts the way in which media and religion have continued to intermingle and collide in the cultural experience of media audiences. This second edition of Religion in the Media Age is essential reading for everyone interested in how today's mass media relates to contemporary religious and spiritual life.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040317488
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Comparative Religion

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Series editors’ preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. 1 What this book could be about
  11. 2 From medium to meaning: The evolution of theories about media, religion, and culture
  12. 3 Media and religion in transition
  13. 4 Articulating life and culture in the media age: Plausible narratives of the self
  14. 5 Reception of religion and media
  15. 6 Cultural objects and religious identity among born-agains and mainstream believers
  16. 7 Cultural objects and religious identity among metaphysical believers, dogmatists, and secularists
  17. 8 Representing outcomes
  18. 9 Media and public religious culture post-09/11/01 and post-11/2/04 and onward to 01/6/21
  19. 10 Conclusion: What is produced?
  20. Notes on method
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index