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Televising Religion in India
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xviii, 235 pp.
"This book explores how religion manifests itself in television. It focuses on how religious traditions, practices, and discourses have been incorporated into non-religious television programmes and how they bring both the community and the media into the fold of religion. The volume traces the cult
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The Mourning News: Reporting Violent Death in a Global Age
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), xvi, 267 pp.
"The book develops the analytics of grievability as an analytical framework that unpacks the ways in which news about death constructs grievable death and articulates relational ties between spectators and sufferers. The book employs the analytics of grievability in a comparative manner and analyses
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Transnationale Kommunikation: Eine Einführung
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2012), xviii, 215 pp.
"Mit dem Begriff der transnationalen Kommunikation nimmt dieser Band Formen medienvermittelter öffentlicher Kommunikation in den Blick, die sich jenseits von und quer zu nationalstaatlichen Grenzen entwickeln. Doch transnationale Kommunikation kann nur verstehen, wer zugleich die Beharrungskräfte
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Ritual, Media, and Conflict
Oxford et al.: Oxford University Press (2011), xvi, 299 pp.
"Although conflict is a normal aspect of human life, mass media technologies are changing the dynamics of conflict and shaping strategies for deploying rituals. Rituals can provoke or escalate conflict; they can also mediate it. Media representations have long been instrumental in establishing, main
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The Book of Symbols
Köln; New York: Taschen; Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism (2011), 807 pp.
Foundations of African Communication with Examples from Yorùbá Culture
Ibadan: Spectrum Books (2008), xiv, 317 pp.
Media Anthropology
Thousand Oaks: Sage (2005), 350 pp.
"Media Anthropology represents a convergence of issues and interests on anthropological approaches to the study of media. The purpose of this reader is to promote the identity of the field of study; identify its major concepts, methods, and bibliography; comment on the state of the art; and provide
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Indigenous Communication in Africa: Concept, Application and Prospects
Deep Insights
Accra: Ghana Universities Press (2005), xvi, 282 pp.
"This book argues that indigenous modes of communication - for example the oral tradition, drama, indigenous entertainment forms, cultural modes and local language radio - are essential to the societies within which they exist and which create them; and that coupled with newer, or modern forms of co
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Media Rituals: A Critical Approach
London; New York: Routledge (2003), xii, 173 pp.
"The title Media Rituals suggests a ready-made area of media research that is there to be explained and ordered. In fact, the position is more complex. There is a lot of talk about media in ritual terms, and there are a number of things that happen in relation to media that can properly be called â€
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Religiöse Funktionen des Fernsehens? Medien-, kultur- und religionswissenschaftliche Perspektiven
Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag (1999), 297 pp.
"Die Beiträge dieses Bandes suchen einen interdisziplinären Zugang zum Verhältnis von Fernsehen und Religion. Aus verschiedenen Fachperspektiven setzen sie sich mit der Frage auseinander, ob das Fernsehen Kommunikationsformen und Funktionen der Religion übernommen hat." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
Medien - Ritual - Religion: Zur religiösen Funktion des Fernsehens
Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp (1998), 723 pp.
Media, Ritual, and Identity
London; New York: Routledge (1998), viii, 265 pp.
"Media, Ritual and Identity examines the role of the media in society; its complex influence on democratic processes and its participation in the construction and affirmation of different social identities. It draws extensively upon cultural anthropology and combines a commanding overview of contemp
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Ritual Communication: From Everyday Conversation to Mediated Ceremony
London: Sage (1998), 208 pp.
"This book combines bibliographic essay and theory construction to provide a perspective on ritual as a special and powerful form of communication. Part one is a critical review of definitions of ritual from anthropology, sociology, communication studies and other literature, ending with a theoretic
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