Exploring religion and the sacred in a media age /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Deacy, Christopher, Arweck, Elisabeth
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009]
Series:Theology and religion in interdisciplinary perspectives series
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Why study religion and popular culture? / Christopher Deacy
  • The ethics of research in faith and culture : scholarship as fandom? / Tom Beaudoin
  • Media rituals : from Durkheim on religion to Jade Goody on religious toleration / Nick Couldry
  • Deepening relationships with material artefacts / Stephen Pattison
  • Contesting martyrdom / Jolyon Mitchell
  • Religionless in Seattle / Michael W. DeLashmutt
  • Marketing God and hell : strategies, tactics and textual poaching / Carlton Johnstone
  • The gospel of Tom (Hanks) : American churches and The Da Vinci code / Ellen E. Moore
  • From pulp fiction to revealed text : a study of the role of the text in the otherkin community / Danielle Kirby
  • Seeing the self as other : televising religious experience / Nicholas Buxton
  • Possession trance ritual in electronic dance music culture : a popular ritual technology for reenchantment, addressing the crisis of the homeless self, and reinserting the individual into the community / Rupert Till
  • Representation of religion in Pretty village, pretty flame / Milja Radovic
  • A secular gospel for the marginal : two films of Stephen Chow as Hong Kong cinematic parables / Yam Chi-Keung
  • What is 'on' : an exploration of iconographical representation of traditional religious organizations on the homepages of their websites / Sarah Lawther
  • Researching theo(b)logy : emerging Christian communities and the Internet / Katharine Sarah Moody.