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Religion, Media, and Social Change
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ABSTRACT
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, institutions, and social and cultural environments, as well as mass-mediated popular culture such as film, music, television, and computer games. This interdisciplinary collection addresses important theoretical and methodological questions by connecting the study of media and popular culture to current perspectives, approaches, and discussions in the broader sociological study of religion.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
PART I Theorising Media and Religion in the Public Sphere
chapter 2|19 pages
Power, Control and Religious Language: Latin and Vernacular Contests in the Christian Medieval and Reformation Periods
chapter 3|16 pages
Mediatised Religion and Public Spheres: Current Approaches and New Questions
chapter 4|17 pages
Theorising Religious Republicisation in Europe: Religion, Media and Public Controversy in the Netherlands and Poland, 2000–2012
chapter 5|18 pages
Religion, Media and the Dynamics of Consumerism in Globalising Societies
part |2 pages
PART II Media, Popular Culture and Contemporary Religious Sensibilities and Communities
chapter 6|19 pages
Mass-Mediated Popular Culture and Religious Socialisation
chapter 8|15 pages
Constructing Segregated Communities: Or How Britain Became ‘Muscularly Liberal’
part |2 pages
PART III Impacts and Outcomes of Contemporary Encounters between Religion, Media and Popular Culture