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This book is about the role that media and religion play in promoting peace and inciting violence. Using a wide range of examples drawn from around the world, it explores:

• how different media contribute to the creation of communicative environments where violence can be incited
• how various media are used to promote peacebuilding
• the ambivalent role of religion in these processes.

It is sometimes suggested that through skilful packaging of religious messages audiences can be turned into more violent or more peaceful citizens. Jolyon Mitchell...

This is the first book to bring together many aspects of the interplay between religion, media and culture from around the world in a single comprehensive study. Leading international scholars provide the most up-to-date findings in their fields, and in a readable and accessible way.Some of the topics covered include religion in the media age, popular broadcasting, communication theology, popular piety, film and religion, myth and ritual in cyberspace, music and religion, communication ethics, and the nature of truth in media saturated cultures.The result is not only a wide-ranging...

What can preachers learn from the art of radio broadcasting? How can preachers develop more imaginative patterns of speaking? Jolyon Mitchell analyzes religious broadcasting in Britain and America, exploring how the speaker can create pictures with words and engage listeners in multisensory ways. This book offers theological insights and practical guidelines to enable preachers to listen and to communicate more creatively in today's media-saturated world.

What can preachers learn from the art of radio broadcasting? How can preachers develop more imaginative patterns of speaking?

Jolyon Mitchell considers a wide range of radio discourse in Britain and America, including C. S. Lewis, Richard Dimbleby, Ed Murrow, Lionel Blue, Angela Tilby and James Jones. He explores how the speaker can create pictures with words and engage listeners in multi-sensory ways.

This pioneering book offers many theological insights and practical guidelines to enable Christian preachers to communicate more creatively in today's media-saturated...

This book explores how media and religion combine to play a role in promoting peace and inciting violence. It analyses a wide range of media - from posters, cartoons and stained glass to websites, radio and film - and draws on diverse examples from around the world, including Iran, Rwanda and South Africa.

• Part One considers how various media forms can contribute to the creation of violent environments: by memorialising past hurts; by instilling fear of the 'other'; by encouraging audiences to fight, to die or to kill neighbours for an apparently greater...

This Reader brings together a selection of key writings to explore the relationship between religion, media and cultures of everyday life. It provides an overview of the main debates and developments in this growing field, focusing on four major themes:

• Religion, spirituality and consumer culture
• Media and the transformation of religion
• The sacred senses: visual, material and audio culture
• Religion, and the ethics of media and culture.

This collection is an invaluable resource...