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Media and Religion : The Global View / ed. by Stewart M. Hoover, Nabil Echchaibi.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Religion and Society ; 74Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 225 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110499865
  • 9783110496086
  • 9783110497878
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Conjuring the Religious, the Global and the Mediated -- High Tech Mediations, Low Tech Lifestyles: The Paradox of Natural Parenting in the Digital Age -- Multi-site Mediated Worship: Why Simulcast Sermons Need Live Local Praise Bands -- Silencing the Tongues of Angels? The Aesthetics of Destruction in Environmental Edens -- Anatta in Buddhism and Games: Emptiness and the Magic Circle -- The National Museum and Religious Identity: The “Islamic Period” at Iran’s National Museum -- Media, Religion, and the Fabric of Culture and Communication in Contemporary Brazil -- Digitizing Jesus: Expanding Publics and Cultivating Civility with the Jesus Film Smartphone App -- Digital Media and Imperial Formations: The 2012 Lady Gaga Controversy in South Korea -- Media Curation and Re-emergent Religion in Ghana’s Roadside Public Sphere -- Religion, Media and Culture in India: Hindutva and Hinduism -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: This volume considers the mediation of religion in the context of global relations of power, culture, and communication. It takes a nuanced, historical view of emergent religions and their mediation in various forms. The wide range of chapters provides valuable insight into particular contexts while also offering connections to other cases and contexts. Together, they form a snapshot of religious evolution in the media age.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9783110497878

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Conjuring the Religious, the Global and the Mediated -- High Tech Mediations, Low Tech Lifestyles: The Paradox of Natural Parenting in the Digital Age -- Multi-site Mediated Worship: Why Simulcast Sermons Need Live Local Praise Bands -- Silencing the Tongues of Angels? The Aesthetics of Destruction in Environmental Edens -- Anatta in Buddhism and Games: Emptiness and the Magic Circle -- The National Museum and Religious Identity: The “Islamic Period” at Iran’s National Museum -- Media, Religion, and the Fabric of Culture and Communication in Contemporary Brazil -- Digitizing Jesus: Expanding Publics and Cultivating Civility with the Jesus Film Smartphone App -- Digital Media and Imperial Formations: The 2012 Lady Gaga Controversy in South Korea -- Media Curation and Re-emergent Religion in Ghana’s Roadside Public Sphere -- Religion, Media and Culture in India: Hindutva and Hinduism -- Contributors -- Index

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This volume considers the mediation of religion in the context of global relations of power, culture, and communication. It takes a nuanced, historical view of emergent religions and their mediation in various forms. The wide range of chapters provides valuable insight into particular contexts while also offering connections to other cases and contexts. Together, they form a snapshot of religious evolution in the media age.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023)

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