Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred - 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 Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred write by Kim Knott. This book was released on 2016-04-29. Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is it true that Christianity is being marginalised by the secular media, at the expense of Islam? Are the mass media Islamophobic? Is atheism on the rise in media coverage? Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred explores such questions and argues that television and newspapers remain key sources of popular information about religion. They are particularly significant at a time when religious participation in Europe is declining yet the public visibility and influence of religions seems to be increasing. Based on analysis of mainstream media, the book is set in the context of wider debates about the sociology of religion and media representation. The authors draw on research conducted in the 1980s and 2008-10 to examine British media coverage and representation of religion and contemporary secular values, and to consider what has changed in the last 25 years. Exploring the portrayal of Christianity and public life, Islam and religious diversity, atheism and secularism, and popular beliefs and practices, several media events are also examined in detail: the Papal visit to the UK in 2010 and the ban of the controversial Dutch MP, Geert Wilders, in 2009. Religion is shown to be deeply embedded in the language and images of the press and television, and present in all types of coverage from news and documentaries to entertainment, sports reporting and advertising. A final chapter engages with global debates about religion and media.
Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred [electronic Resour
Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred [electronic Resour - 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 Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred [electronic Resour write by Kim Knott. This book was released on 2013. Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred [electronic Resour available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age
Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age - 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 Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age write by Elisabeth Arweck. This book was released on 2016-12-05. Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In recent years, there has been growing awareness across a range of academic disciplines of the value of exploring issues of religion and the sacred in relation to cultures of everyday life. Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age offers inter-disciplinary perspectives drawing from theology, religious studies, media studies, cultural studies, film studies, sociology and anthropology. Combining theoretical frameworks for the analysis of religion, media and popular culture, with focused international case studies of particular texts, practices, communities and audiences, the authors examine topics such as media rituals, marketing strategies, empirical investigations of audience testimony, and the influence of religion on music, reality television and the internet. Both academically rigorous and of interest to a wider readership, this book offers a wide range of fascinating explorations at the cutting edge of many contemporary debates in sociology, religion and media, including chapters on the way evangelical groups in America have made use of The Da Vinci Code and on the influences of religion on British club culture and electronic dance music.
Practicing Religion in the Age of the Media
Practicing Religion in the Age of the 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 Practicing Religion in the Age of the Media write by Stewart M. Hoover. This book was released on 2002-03-06. Practicing Religion in the Age of the Media available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Increasingly, the religious practices people engage in and the ways they talk about what is meaningful or sacred take place in the context of media culture—in the realm of the so-called secular. Focusing on this intersection of the sacred and the secular, this volume gathers together the work of media experts, religious historians, sociologists of religion, and authorities on American studies and art history. Topics range from Islam on the Internet to the quasi-religious practices of Elvis fans, from the uses of popular culture by the Salvation Army in its early years to the uses of interactive media technologies at the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Beit Hashoah Museum of Tolerance. The issues that the essays address include the public/private divide, the distinctions between the sacred and profane, and how to distinguish between the practices that may be termed "religious" and those that may not.
Media Perceptions of Religious Changes in Australia
Media Perceptions of Religious Changes in Australia - 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 Media Perceptions of Religious Changes in Australia write by Enqi Weng. This book was released on 2019-12-05. Media Perceptions of Religious Changes in Australia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume explores the contradiction between the news coverage given to issues of religion, particularly since 2001 in relation to issues such as terrorism, politics, security and gender, and the fact of its apparent decline according to Census data. Based on media research in Australia, and offering comparisons with the UK, the author demonstrates that media discussions overlook the diversity that exists within religions, particularly the country’s main religion, Christianity, and presents religion according to specific interpretations shaped by race, class and gender, which in turn result in very limited understandings of religion itself. Drawing on understandings of the sacred as a non-negotiable value present in religious and secular form, Media Perceptions of Religious Changes in Australia calls for a broader sociological perspective on religion and will appeal to scholars of sociology and media studies with interests in religion and public life.
