Religion, Media, and the Public SphereBirgit Meyer, Annelies Moors "... one of those rare edited volumes that advances social thought as it provides substantive religious and media ethnography that is good to think with." -- Dale Eickelman, Dartmouth College Increasingly, Pentecostal, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, and indigenous movements all over the world make use of a great variety of modern mass media, both print and electronic. Through religious booklets, radio broadcasts, cassette tapes, television talk-shows, soap operas, and documentary film these movements address multiple publics and offer alternative forms of belonging, often in competition with the postcolonial nation-state. How have new practices of religious mediation transformed the public sphere? How has the adoption of new media impinged on religious experiences and notions of religious authority? Has neo-liberalism engendered a blurring of the boundaries between religion and entertainment? The vivid essays in this interdisciplinary volume combine rich empirical detail with theoretical reflection, offering new perspectives on a variety of media, genres, and religions. |
Contents
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Cassette Ethics Public Piety and Popular Media in Egypt | 29 |
Future in the Mirror Media Evangelicals and Politics in Rio de Janeiro | 52 |
Communicating Authority Consuming Tradition Jewish Orthodox Outreach Literature and Its Reading Public | 73 |
Holy Pirates Media Ethnicity and Religious Renewal in Israel | 91 |
Representing Family Law Debates in Palestine Gender and the Politics of Presence | 115 |
Morality Community Publicness Shifting Terms of Public Debate in Mali | 132 |
Media and Violence in an Age of Transparency Journalistic Writing on WarTorn Maluku | 152 |
Rethinking the Voice Of God in Indigenous Australia Secrecy Exposure and the Efficacy of Media | 188 |
Synchronizing Watches The State the Consumer and Sacred Time in Ramadan Television | 207 |
Becoming Secular Muslims Yaşar Nuri Öztürk as a Supersubject on Turkish Television | 227 |
Gods in the Sacred Marketplace Hindu Nationalism and the Return of the Aura in the Public Sphere | 251 |
The Saffron Screen? Hindu Nationalism and the Hindi Film | 273 |
Impossible Representations Pentecostalism Vision and Video Technology in Ghana | 290 |
Contributors | 313 |
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