Belief in Media : Cultural Perspectives on Media and Christianity (Hardcover)

Contents: Media, religion and culture: an introduction, Peter Horsfield. Part I The Cultural Perspective: 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 US Latino popular Catholicism and Medieval Christianity, Roberto S. Goizueta; Notes on belief and social circulation (science fiction narratives), Juan Carlos HenrA­quez. Part II Mediated Christianity: 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, GermA¡n 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 M. Hoover and Jin Kyu Park. Part III Media Culture And Christian Institutions: Making religious media: notes from the field, AdA¡n M. Medrano; Rescripting religious education in media culture, Mary E. Hess; Changes in the Thai Catholic way of life, Siriwan Santisakultarm; The US 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.