How can audiences interact creatively, wisely and peaceably with the many different forms of violence found throughout today's media? Suicide attacks, graphic executions and the horrors of war appear in news reports, films, websites, and even on mobile phones. One approach towards media violence is to attempt to protect viewers; another is to criticise journalists, editors, film-makers and their stories. In this book Jolyon Mitchell highlights Christianity's ambiguous relationship with media violence. He goes beyond debates about the effects of watching mediated violence to examine how...
How can audiences interact creatively, wisely and peaceably with the many different forms of violence found throughout today's media? Suicide attacks,...
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...
This Reader brings together a selection of key writings to explore the relationship between religion, media and cultures of everyday life....
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 book is about the role that media and religion play in promoting peace and inciting violence. Using a wide range of examples drawn fr...
