Religion, Media, and Social Change - 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, Media, and Social Change write by Kennet Granholm. This book was released on 2014-09-19. Religion, Media, and Social Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In an era of heightened globalization, macro-level transformations in the general socioeconomic and cultural makeup of modern societies have been studied in great depth. Yet little attention has been paid to the growing influence of media and mass-mediated popular culture on contemporary religious sensibilities, life, and practice. Religion, Media, and Social Change explores the correlation between the study of religion, media, and popular culture and broader sociological theorizing on religious change. Contributions devote serious attention to broadly-defined media including technologies, institutions, and social and cultural environments, as well as mass-mediated popular culture such as film, music, television, and computer games. This interdisciplinary collection addresses important theoretical and methodological questions by connecting the study of media and popular culture to current perspectives, approaches, and discussions in the broader sociological study of religion.
Media, Spiritualities and Social Change
Media, Spiritualities and Social Change - 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, Spiritualities and Social Change write by Stewart M. Hoover. This book was released on 2011-01-13. Media, Spiritualities and Social Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Groundbreaking study into the relationship between forms of spirituality, media and its effect on social reform.
Social Media and Religious Change
Social Media and Religious Change - 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 Social Media and Religious Change write by Marie Gillespie. This book was released on 2013-10-29. Social Media and Religious Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume offers unique insights into the mutually constitutive nature of social media practices and religious change. Part 1 examines how social media operate in conjunction with mass media in the construction of discourses of religion and spirituality. It includes: a longitudinal study of British news media coverage of Christianity, secularism and religious diversity (Knott et al.); an analysis of responses to two documentaries 'The Monastery' and 'The Convent' (Thomas); an evaluation of theories of the sacred in studies of religion and media within the 'strong program' in cultural sociology in the US (Lynch); and a study of the consequences of mass and social media synergies for public perceptions of Islam in the Netherlands (Herbert). Part 2 examines the role of social media in the construction of contemporary martyrs and media celebrities (e.g., Michael Jackson) using mixed and mobile methods to analyse fan sites (Bennett & Campbell) and jihadi websites and YouTube (Nauta). Part 3 examines how certain bounded religious communities negotiate the challenges of social media: Judaism in Second Life (Abrams & Baker); Bah'ai regulation of web use among members (Campbell & Fulton); YouTube evangelists (Pihlaja); and public expressions of bereavement (Greenhill & Fletcher). The book provides theoretically informed empirical case studies and presents an intriguing, complex picture of the aesthetic and ethical, demographic and discursive aspects of new spaces of communication and their implications for religious institutions, beliefs and practices.
Mediatization and Religion
Mediatization and Religion - 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 Mediatization and Religion write by Stig Hjarvard. This book was released on 2012. Mediatization and Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Religious Identity and Social Change
Religious Identity and Social Change - 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 Religious Identity and Social Change write by David Radford. This book was released on 2015-06-19. Religious Identity and Social Change available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Religious Identity and Social Change offers a macro and micro analysis of the dynamics of rapid social and religious change occurring within the Muslim world. Drawing on rich ethnographic and quantitative research in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia, David Radford provides theoretical insight into the nature of religious and social change and ethnic identity transformation exploring significant questions concerning why people convert and what happens when they do so. A crisis of identity occurs when religious conversion takes place, especially from one major religious tradition (Islam) to another (Christianity); and where religious identity is intimately connected to ethnic and national identity. Radford argues for the importance of recognising the socially constructed nature of identity involving the dynamic interplay between human agency, culture and social networks. Kyrgyz Christians have been active agents in bringing religious and identity transformation building upon the contextual parameters in which they are situated.
