Religion, media, and the public sphere / edited by Birgit Meyer and Annelies Moors.

ISBN:

9780253111722

9780253346537

9780253217974

9781282072695

Title:

Religion, media, and the public sphere / edited by Birgit Meyer and Annelies Moors.

Author:

Meyer, Birgit, 1960 March 21-

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Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 325 pages) : illustrations

Contents:

Cassette ethics : public piety and popular media in Egypt / Charles Hirschkind -- Future in the mirror : media, evangelicals, and politics in Rio de Janeiro / Patricia Birman -- Communicating authority, consuming tradition : Jewish Orthodox outreach literature and its reading public / Jeremy Stolow -- Holy pirates : media, ethnicity, and religious renewal in Israel / David Lehmann and Batia Siebzehner -- Representing family law debates in Palestine : gender and the politics of presence / Annelies Moors -- Morality, community, publicness : shifting terms of public debate in Mali / Dorothea E. Schulz -- Media and violence in an age of transparency : journalistic writing on war-torn Maluku / Patricia Spyer -- Mediated religion in South Africa : balancing airtime and rights claims / Rosalind I.J. Hackett -- Rethinking the "Voice of God" in indigenous Australia : secrecy, exposure, and the efficacy of media / Faye Ginsburg -- Synchronizing watches : the state, the consumer, and sacred time in Ramadan television / Walter Armbrust -- Becoming "Secular Muslims" : Yaşar Nuri Öztürk as a Super-subject on Turkish television / Ayşe Öncü -- Gods in the sacred marketplace : Hindu nationalism and the return of the aura in the public sphere / Sudeep Dasgupta -- Saffron screen? Hindu nationalism and the Hindi film / Rachel Dwyer -- Impossible representations : Pentecostalism, vision, and video technology in Ghana / Birgit Meyer.

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Subject Term:

Mass media -- Religious aspects.

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Meyer, Birgit, 1960 March 21-

Moors, Annelies.

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Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2006

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Summary

". . . one of those rare edited volumes that advances social thought as it provides substantive religious and media ethnography that is good to think with." --Dale Eickelman, Dartmouth College

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.

Author Notes

Birgit Meyer is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the Free University, Amsterdam.

Annelies Moors holds the ISIM Chair at the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World, University of Amsterdam.