Media, Religion and Culture: An Introduction

ISBN-13: 9780415683180 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 178 str.

Jeffrey H. Mahan;?Abar;?Abar

Opis

This lively book offers a comprehensive introduction to the contemporary field of religion, media and culture. It explores the religious content of media texts and the reception of those texts by religious consumers who appropriate and reuse them in their own religious work how new forms of media provide fresh locations within which new religious voices emerge, people reimagine the 'task' of religion, and develop and perform religious identity.

O autorze

Jeffrey H. Mahan holds the Ralph E. and Norma E. Peck Chair in Religion and Public Communication and is Professor of Ministry, Media and Culture at Iliff School of Theology in Denver. He is affiliate faculty at the Center for Media, Religion and Culture at the University of Colorado in Boulder and co-editor with Bruce David Forbes of Religion and Popular Culture in America.