Religion, Media, and the Public SphereBirgit Meyer, Annelies Moors Indiana University Press, 1 déc. 2005 - 336 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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Cassette Ethics Public Piety and Popular Media in Egypt | 29 |
Future in the Mirror Media Evangelicals and Politics in Rio de Janeiro | 52 |
Communicating Authority Consuming Tradition Jewish Orthodox Outreach Literature and Its Reading Public | 73 |
Holy Pirates Media Ethnicity and Religious Renewal in Israel | 91 |
Representing Family Law Debates in Palestine Gender and the Politics of Presence | 115 |
Morality Community Publicness Shifting Terms of Public Debate in Mali | 132 |
Media and Violence in an Age of Transparency Journalistic Writing on WarTorn Maluku | 152 |
Rethinking the Voice Of God in Indigenous Australia Secrecy Exposure and the Efficacy of Media | 188 |
Synchronizing Watches The State the Consumer and Sacred Time in Ramadan Television | 207 |
Becoming Secular Muslims Yaşar Nuri Öztürk as a Supersubject on Turkish Television | 227 |
Gods in the Sacred Marketplace Hindu Nationalism and the Return of the Aura in the Public Sphere | 251 |
The Saffron Screen? Hindu Nationalism and the Hindi Film | 273 |
Impossible Representations Pentecostalism Vision and Video Technology in Ghana | 290 |
Contributors | 313 |
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