Belief In Media: Cultural Perspectives On Media And Christianity
Edited by Peter Horsfield, Mary E. Hess and Adán M. Medrano, Burlington VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2004.
[Most of these essays were written by members of the International Study Commission on Media, Religion, and Culture.]
Contents
List of Figures
Contributors
Media, Culture and Religion: An Introduction, Peter Horsfield
Part I: The Cultural Perspective
Introduction
Reconceptualizing Religion and Media in a Post-National, Postmodern World: A Critical Historical Introduction, Lynn Schofield Clark
Theology, Church and Media – Contours in a Changing Cultural Terrain, Peter Horsfield
Because God is Near, God is Real: Symbolic Realism in U.S. Latino Popular Catholicism and Medieval Christianity, Roberto S. Goizueta
Notes on Belief and Social Circulation (Science Fiction Narratives), Juan Carlos Henriquez
Part II: Mediated Christianity
Introduction
Pentecostal Media Images and Religious Globalization in Sub-Saharan Africa, J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
Identities, Religion and Melodrama: A View from the Cultural Dimension of the Latin American Telenovela, German Rey
Visual Media and Ethiopian Protestantism, David Morgan
From Morality Tales in Horror Movies: Towards an Understanding of the Popularity of West African Video Film, Jolyon Mitchell
Religion and Meaning in the Digital Age: Field Research on Internet/Web Religion, Stewart M. Hoover and Jin Kyu Park
Part III: Media Culture And Christian Institutions
Introduction
Making Religious Media: Notes from the Field, Adán M. Medrano
Rescripting Religious Education in Media Culture, Mary E. Hess
Changes in the Thai Catholic Way of Life, Siriwan Santisakultarm
The U.S. Catholic Church Sexual Abuse Scandal: A Media/Religion Case Study, Frances Forde Plude
Part IV: An Overview
Major Issues in the Study of Media, Religion and Culture, Robert A. White
Bibliography
Index