"As Scandinavian societies experience increased ethno-religious diversity, their Christian-Lutheran heritage and strong traditions of welfare and solidarity are being challenged and contested. This book explores conflicts related to religion as they play out in public broadcasting, social media, loc
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al civic settings, and schools. It examines how the mediatization of these controversies influences people’s engagement with contested issues about religion, and redraws the boundaries between inclusion and exclusion." (Publisher description)
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"Este livro é uma introdução a alguns dos principais temas, conceitos e ideias para estudar as relações entre mídia e religião na sociedade contemporânea. O objetivo, mais do que discutir as teorias, é apresentar um panorama do que vem sendo pensado a respeito, mostrando, a partir de exempl
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os, situações cotidianas e estudos de caso, como as relações entre mídia e religião se enquadram em questões políticas, históricas e sociais. Os pontos de vista teóricos apresentados são diferentes, às vezes até mesmo opostos: essa variedade é um convite ao diálogo entre as teorias, pensando que o conhecimento pode ter vários caminhos. Embora seja muitas vezes uma questão de fé individual, a religião é vivida em público – e isso a torna um tema para as Ciências Sociais, particularmente, para a Comunicação. O modo como a pessoa religiosa se veste, fala, vive com os outros, escolhe seus relacionamentos afetivos ou mesmo profissionais está, em alguma medida, ligado às suas crenças. Portanto, a religião neste livro é entendida como uma prática social, algo que acontece na relação entre as pessoas. E, fechando o foco, o estudo está nas práticas sociais religiosas ligadas à mídia e à comunicação." (Palavras iniciais, página 9)
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"[...] the aims for embarking on this study were (a) for the researcher to understand more about the TV, it’s various genres and audiences preferences; (b) Explore the applicability of cultivation theory to an African TV audience; (c) gather data about important values and value changes, and share
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it with any interested persons; (d) use the knowledge acquired to explain the value changes taking place in Zambian society, especially Catholic youth; (e) observe the emerging social trends within Zambian society, particularly among younger people, and (f) assess the suitability of TV as a means for transmission of personal values in Zambia. The dissertation is divided into three parts: Part one presents a literature review of mass media development, the nature of values and media effects theory. The second part deals with research design and methodology. Lastly, part 3 presents the research findings." (Introduction, page 12-13)
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"Looking at the everyday interaction of religion and media in our cultural lives, Hoover's new book is a fascinating assessment of the state of modern religion. Recent years have produced a marked turn away from institutionalized religions towards more autonomous, individual forms of the search for
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spiritual meaning. Film, television, the music industry and the internet are central to this process, cutting through the monolithic assertions of world religions and giving access to more diverse and fragmented ideals. While the sheer volume and variety of information travelling through global media changes modes of religious thought and commitment, the human desire for spirituality also invigorates popular culture itself, recreating commodities - film blockbusters, world sport and popular music - as contexts for religious meanings. Drawing on research into household media consumption, Hoover charts the way in which media and religion intermingle and collide in the cultural experience of media audiences." (Publisher description)
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"Each of the eleven chapters in Quoting God pairs an academic and a journalist. First, the scholar holds forth, followed by a "View from the News Desk." Together, they represent many and diverse voices. Badaracco's book shows the relationship between media culture and spiritual culture, recognizing
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how news and religious values influence political life, and how science, modernity, and disbelief come together to suggest social fragmentation or consolidation. Through the media, audiences learn, often with passion, what they believe, what they resist religiously, how to respect other religious ideas, and how to construct their own religious identity in a world of both mediated and actual communities. The book's conceptual and theoretical frame addresses emerging religions as well as traditional faiths. The first four chapters focus on the legal and constitutional frames informing national identity and the ideological climates of newsrooms where journalists "construct the mediated religious public square" (Page 14). The next four chapters discuss cross-cultural reporting in which a reporter navigates between two (or more) cultures in the required roles of being fair and balanced. The next three chapters explore faith and reason, science and religion, and the complexity of religious issues. The volume concludes with Gustav Niebuhr, formerly with the New York Times and now a member of the academy at Syracuse University, summing up the care and commitment of the journalist who covers religion in American life." (https://www.h-net.org/reviews)
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"Der Begriff der »populären Religion« spielt auf zwei Merkmale gegenwärtiger religiöser Entwicklungen an: erstens auf die Entwicklung, Ausbreitung und Globalisierung eines religiösen Marktes, auf dem die verschiedensten Inhalte der historisch gewachsenen Religionen angeboten werden-und der ent
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sprechende angebotsorientierte Sozialformen annimmt. Während diese Entwicklung zuweilen und höchst einseitig als Ausdruck rationaler Entscheidungen einzelner Akteure angesehen wird, soll betont werden, daß die Ausbildung eines Marktes, zweitens, eng verbunden ist mit den Veränderungen der religiösen Kommunikation, die auf den Möglichkeiten der Entwicklung von Medien aufbaut und die Ausbildung neuer Formen von Gemeinschaften zur Folge hat. Marktbildung beruht auf der Möglichkeit der offenen Information über die Angebote, und diese Möglichkeit ihrerseits lebt von der Bereitschaft, im Gegenzug für diese Informationen Leistungen zu erbringen. Die aus der Kombination von Markt und Medien generierten Formen der Religiosität nenne ich »populäre Religion«. In einem ersten Schritt soll der Begriff bestimmt und abgegrenzt werden. Im darauf folgenden Teil möchte ich zeigen, daß die Gründe für die Ausbreitung der populären Religion auf zwei Säulen stehen: den Medien und dem Markt. Damit der Begriff nicht abstrakt bleibt, sollen dann drei Beispiele veranschaulichen, was populäre Religion heißt und welche Bedeutung sie erlangt hat: die elektronische Kirche, Nahtoderfahrungen und Papstbesuche. Im abschließenden Teil möchte ich dann auf einige Konsequenzen der populären Religion eingehen." (Inhalt)
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