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1 online resource |
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Routledge Research in Religion, Media and Culture ; 5 |
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Routledge research in religion, media and culture ; 5.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; PART I Theorising Media and Religion in the Public Sphere; 2 Power, Control and Religious Language: Latin and Vernacular Contests in the Christian Medieval and Reformation Periods; 3 Mediatised Religion and Public Spheres: Current Approaches and New Questions; 4 Theorising Religious Republicisation in Europe: Religion, Media and Public Controversy in the Netherlands and Poland, 2000-2012; 5 Religion, Media and the Dynamics of Consumerism in Globalising Societies |
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PART II Media, Popular Culture and Contemporary Religious Sensibilities and Communities6 Mass-Mediated Popular Culture and Religious Socialisation; 7 Media and the Nonreligious; 8 Constructing Segregated Communities: Or How Britain Became 'Muscularly Liberal'; PART III Impacts and Outcomes of Contemporary Encounters between Religion, Media and Popular Culture; 9 Now the Bible Is an App: Digital Media and Changing Patterns of Religious Authority; 10 Controversial Popular Culture and Controversial Religion: Theorising the Connections |
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11 Lab Rats and Tissue Samples: The Human in Contemporary Invented ReligionsContributors; References; Index |
| Summary |
In an era of heightened globalization, macro-level transformations in the general socioeconomic and cultural makeup of modern societies have been studied in great depth. Yet little attention has been paid to the growing influence of media and mass-mediated popular culture on contemporary religious sensibilities, life, and practice. Religion, Media, and Social Change explores the correlation between the study of religion, media, and popular culture and broader sociological theorizing on religious change. Contributions devote serious attention to broadly-defined media including technologies, ins |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Mass media in religion.
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Mass media -- Religious aspects.
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Social change -- Religious aspects.
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Popular culture -- Religious aspects.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Gaia & Earth Energies.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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Mass media in religion.
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Mass media -- Religious aspects.
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Popular culture -- Religious aspects.
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Social change -- Religious aspects.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Granholm, Kennet, 1977- editor.
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Moberg, Marcus, 1978- editor.
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Sjö, Sofia, 1977- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781317804185 |
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131780418X |
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9781315814339 |
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1315814331 |
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