Religion, Media and Culture: A Reader
Gordon Lynch editor Jolyon Mitchell editor Anna Strhan editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:10th Aug '11
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- Hardback£135.00(9780415549547)
This Reader brings together a selection of key writings to explore the relationship between religion, media and cultures of everyday life. It provides an overview of the main debates and developments in this growing field, focusing on four major themes:
- Religion, spirituality and consumer culture
- Media and the transformation of religion
- The sacred senses: visual, material and audio culture
- Religion, and the ethics of media and culture.
This collection is an invaluable resource for students, academics and researchers wanting a deeper understanding of religion and contemporary culture.
"The ability to separate religion from media from culture is becoming more dubious by the day. This collection of essays allows readers to relish the complexities and discover threads that lead in brand new directions to help us rethink religion, media, and culture. The editors have assembled a needed tool for classroom use, provoking questions, but also supplying the critical means to think through contemporary cultural engagements."
- S. Brent Plate, managing editor of Material Religion, author of Religion and Film: Cinema and the Re-Creation of the World
"As a whole, the volume...provides a good mixture of original and previously published work...[It] is organized around a set of highly relevant themes, and provides a useful andaccessible resource for courses and teaching on religion, media and culture."
-Marcus Moberg, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
ISBN: 9780415549554
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 453g
294 pages