Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-236) and index.
Contents:
Media, religion and culture : an introduction / Peter Horsfield -- 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 -- Symbolic realism in US Latino popular Catholicism / Roberto Goizueta -- Notes on belief and social circulation (science fiction narratives) / Juan Carlos Henriquez -- Pentecostal media images and religion globalization in sub-Saharan Africa / Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu -- Identities, religion and melodrama : a view from the cultural dimension of the Latin American telenovela / Germàn Rey -- Visual media and Ethiopian Protestantism / David Morgan -- From morality tales to 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 Hoover and Jin Kyu Park -- 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 -- Major issues in the study of media, religion and culture / Robert A. White.
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