Religion and Mass Media - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religion and Mass Media write by Daniel A. Stout. This book was released on 1996-03-21. Religion and Mass Media available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the first part, contributors set the framework by describing recent theoretical developments in the sociology of religion and communication theory. Part II provides an overview of certain religious beliefs; Part III looks at audience behavior; Part IV describes specific case studies (including one on rap music); and Part V looks at the changing information environment and the future.
Christianity and the Mass Media in America
Christianity and the Mass Media in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Christianity and the Mass Media in America write by Quentin J. Schultze. This book was released on 2005-11-09. Christianity and the Mass Media in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The mass media and religious groups in America regularly argue about news bias, sex and violence on television, movie censorship, advertiser boycotts, broadcast and film content rating systems, government regulation of the media, the role of mass evangelism in a democracy, and many other issues. In the United States the major disputes between religion and the media usually have involved Christian churches or parachurch ministries, on the one hand, and the so-called secular media, on the other. Often the Christian Right locks horns with supposedly liberal Eastern media elite and Hollywood entertainment companies. When a major Protestant denomination calls for an economic boycott of Disney, the resulting news reports suggest business as usual in the tensions between faith groups and media empires. Schultze demonstrates how religion and the media in America have borrowed each other’s rhetoric. In the process, they have also helped to keep each other honest, pointing out respective foibles and pretensions. Christian media have offered the public as well as religious tribes some of the best media criticism— better than most of the media criticism produced by mainstream media themselves. Meanwhile, mainstream media have rightly taken particular churches to task for misdeeds as well as offered some surprisingly good depictions of religious life. The tension between Christian groups and the media in America ultimately is a good thing that can serve the interest of democratic life. As Alexis de Tocqueville discovered in the 1830s, American Christianity can foster the “habits of the heart” that ward off the antisocial acids of radical individualism. And, as John Dewey argued a century later, the media offer some of our best hopes for maintaining a public life in the face of the religious tribalism that can erode democracy from within. Mainstream media and Christianity will always be at odds in a democracy. That is exactly the way it should be for the good of each one.
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the American News Media
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the American News Media - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the American News Media write by Diane Winston. This book was released on 2012-08-29. The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the American News Media available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Whether the issue is the rise of religiously inspired terrorism, the importance of faith based NGOs in global relief and development, or campaigning for evangelical voters in the U.S., religion proliferates in our newspapers and magazines, on our radios and televisions, on our computer screens and, increasingly, our mobile devices. Americans who assumed society was becoming more and more secular have been surprised by religions' rising visibility and central role in current events. Yet this is hardly new: the history of American journalism has deep religious roots, and religion has long been part of the news mix. Providing a wide-ranging examination of how religion interacts with the news by applying the insights of history, sociology, and cultural studies to an analysis of media, faith, and the points at which they meet, The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the American News Media is the go-to volume for both secular and religious journalists and journalism educators, scholars in media studies, journalism studies, religious studies, and American studies. Divided into five sections, this handbook explores the historical relationship between religion and journalism in the USA, how religion is covered in different media, how different religions are reported on, the main narratives of religion coverage, and the religious press.
Unsecular Media
Unsecular Media - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Unsecular Media write by Mark Silk. This book was released on 1998-01-15. Unsecular Media available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Writing in the New York Times Magazine, Max Frankel characterized Unsecular Media as a book that "leaves you thinking about the saintly role that religion has acquired in our allegedly irreligious media." Mark Silk's book is the first to offer a comprehensive description and analysis of how American news media cover religion.
Mass Media Christianity
Mass Media Christianity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mass Media Christianity write by Jerry Delmas Cardwell. This book was released on 1984. Mass Media Christianity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
