Mediating Catholicism: Religion and Media in Global Catholic Imaginaries
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London: Bloomsbury Academic (2022), 240 pp.
Series: New Directions in the Anthropology of Christianity
ISBN 978-1-350-22821-4 (pdf); 978-1-350-22820-7 (pbk)
Signature commbox: 10-Catholic-E 2022
"This book focuses on the ethnographic study of Catholicism and media. Chapters demonstrate how people engage with the Catholic media-scape, and analyse the social, cultural, and political processes that underlie Catholic media and mediatization. Case studies examine Catholic practices in North America, Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America, South-East Asia, and Africa, providing a truly comparative, de-centred representation of global Catholicism. Illustrating the vibrancy and heterogeneity of Catholicism worldwide, the book also examines how media work to sustain larger global Catholic imaginaries." (Publisher description)
Introduction: Mediating Catholicism: Global Catholic Media as a Field of Anthropological Inquiry / Eric Hoenes del Pinal, Marc Roscoe Loustau and Kristin Norget, 1
1 Mediatizing Holy Week: Guatemalan Catholic Experiments with Radio and Facebook / Eric Hoenes del Pinal, 29
2 NFP Online: The Mutable Religious Space of Social Media / Katherine Dugan, 47
3 The Stakes of Catholic Media Practices in Chad / Ludovic Lado, 63
4 “This station only runs on love”: Post-Bureaucratic Evangelism in a Transylvanian Catholic Media Organization [Romania] / Marc Roscoe Loustau, 79
5 A Touch of Love: On Words, Things, and the Global Aspirations of US Catholics / Hillary Kaell, 97
6 Religious Celebrities and the Expansion of Suffering in the Philippines and Timor-Leste / Julius Bautista, 123
7 Exorcism in the Media / Thomas J. Csordas, 143
8 Abundance and the Late Capitalist Imagination: Catholicism and Fashion at the Metropolitan Museum / Elayne Oliphant, 161
9 Miraculous Sovereignties: Mediation and the Señor de los Milagros in Lima, Peru / Kristin Norget, 179
10 The Mediatization of Catholicism: Some Challenges and Remarks / Luís Mauro Sá Martino, 203
1 Mediatizing Holy Week: Guatemalan Catholic Experiments with Radio and Facebook / Eric Hoenes del Pinal, 29
2 NFP Online: The Mutable Religious Space of Social Media / Katherine Dugan, 47
3 The Stakes of Catholic Media Practices in Chad / Ludovic Lado, 63
4 “This station only runs on love”: Post-Bureaucratic Evangelism in a Transylvanian Catholic Media Organization [Romania] / Marc Roscoe Loustau, 79
5 A Touch of Love: On Words, Things, and the Global Aspirations of US Catholics / Hillary Kaell, 97
6 Religious Celebrities and the Expansion of Suffering in the Philippines and Timor-Leste / Julius Bautista, 123
7 Exorcism in the Media / Thomas J. Csordas, 143
8 Abundance and the Late Capitalist Imagination: Catholicism and Fashion at the Metropolitan Museum / Elayne Oliphant, 161
9 Miraculous Sovereignties: Mediation and the Señor de los Milagros in Lima, Peru / Kristin Norget, 179
10 The Mediatization of Catholicism: Some Challenges and Remarks / Luís Mauro Sá Martino, 203
