Mediating Faiths : Religion and Socio-Cultural Change in the Twenty-First Century.
Religion is living culture. It continues to play a role in shaping political ideologies, institutional practices, communities of interest, ways of life and social identities. Mediating Faiths brings together scholars working across a range of fields, including cultural studies, media, sociology, ant...
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Ashgate Gower
2011
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Notes on Contributors
- Permission and Acknowledgements
- 1 Editors8217; Introduction: Religion as Living Culture
- Part I New Media Religion
- 2 Transformations in British Religious Broadcasting
- 3 Alternative Islamic Voices on the Internet
- 4 Mediatizing Faith: Digital Storytelling on the Unspoken
- 5 Haredim and the Internet: A Hate8211;Love Affair
- Part II Consumption and Lifestyle
- 6 Fixing the Self: Alternative Therapies and Spiritual Logics
- 7 Religious Media Events and Branding Religion
- 8 The After-Life of Born-Again Beauty Queens
- 9 How Congregations are Becoming Customers
- 10 US Evangelicals and the Redefinition of Worship Music
- Part III Youth
- 11 The Making of Muslim Youth Cultures in Europe
- 12 Religious Experience of a Young Megachurch Congregation in Singapore
- Part IV Politics and Community
- 13 Recent Literary Representations of British Muslims
- 14 Destiny, the Exclusive Brethren and Mediated Politics in New Zealand
- 15 Social Security with a Christian Twist in John Howard8217;s Australia
- 16 Mediated Spaces of Religious Community in Manila, Philippines
- Index.
