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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.

Religion has always been shaped by the media of its time, and today we live in a media culture that informs much of what we think and how we behave. Religious believers, communities and institutions use media as tools to communicate, but also as locations where they construct and express identity, practice religion, and build community.

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...

Ministry is enriched when its practitioners are involved in a serious process of peer reflection on their ministry. Case study, the method advocate here, is one significant way for such reflection to take place. Readers will learn techniques for writing case studies and how to use imagination ad analogy to provoke theological reflection.

The connection between popular culture and religion is an enduring part of American life. With seventy-five percent new content, the third edition of this multifaceted and popular collection has been revised and updated throughout to provide greater religious diversity in its topics and address critical developments in the study of religion and popular culture.
Ideal for classroom use, this expanded volume

• gives increased attention to the implications of digital culture and the increasingly interactive quality of popular culture
• provides a framework to help students...

The connection between popular culture and religion is an enduring part of American life. With seventy-five percent new content, the third edition of this multifaceted and popular collection has been revised and updated throughout to provide greater religious diversity in its topics and address critical developments in the study of religion and popular culture.
Ideal for classroom use, this expanded volume

• gives increased attention to the implications of digital culture and the increasingly interactive quality of popular culture
• provides a framework to help students...

The Biblical doctrine of "Christian Perfection" has been denied even by those who call themselves by the name of Christ. "Defining Biblical Holiness" takes a look at this all important doctrine by casting our gaze into the past, and attempting to clearly define the truth presented in this doctrine. John Wesley and Asa Mahan both had a firm grasp upon a Biblical understanding of the teaching of holiness and Christian Perfection. Their two works on the subject, along with an new introduction, are here presented in juxtaposition in order to shed light on the current antinomian trend which...