Religion, media, and the public sphere

"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. The purpose of the volume is to contribute to the development of new intellectual spaces from which the dynamics of current identity politics may be explored. While the essays show that the nation-state still matters in framing people's lives, equally clear is that religions have come to play an increasingly public role in offering alternative imaginations of communities."@en
""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."--Publisher's website."

"Religion, media, and the public sphere : [... result of a conference organized in dezember 2001 at the University of Amsterdam]"
"Religion, media, and the public sphere"@en
"Religion, media, and the public sphere"