| Description |
1 online resource (275 pages) |
| Series |
Theology and Religion in Interdisciplinary Perspective Series in Association with the BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group |
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Theology and Religion in Interdisciplinary Perspective Series in Association with the BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on the Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Why Study Religion and Popular Culture?; 1 The Ethics of Research in Faith and Culture: Scholarship as Fandom?; 2 Media Rituals: From Durkheim on Religion to Jade Goody on Religious Toleration; 3 Deepening Relationships with Material Artefacts; 4 Contesting Martyrdom; 5 Religionless in Seattle; 6 Marketing God and Hell: Strategies, Tactics and Textual Poaching; 7 The Gospel of Tom (Hanks): American Churches and The Da Vinci Code |
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8 From Pulp Fiction to Revealed Text: A Study of the Role of the Text in the Otherkin Community9 Seeing the Self as Other: Televising Religious Experience; 10 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; 11 Representation of Religion in Pretty Village, Pretty Flame; 12 A Secular Gospel for the Marginal: Two Films of Stephen Chow as Hong Kong Cinematic Parables |
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13 What is 'on': An Exploration of Iconographical Representation of Traditional Religious Organizations on the Homepages of their Websites14 Researching Theo(b)logy: Emerging Christian Communities and the Internet; Index |
| Summary |
Combining theoretical frameworks for the analysis of religion, media and popular culture, with focused international case studies of particular texts, practices, communities and audiences, the authors examine topics such as media rituals, marketing strategies, empirical investigations of audience testimony, and much more |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Religion and culture.
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Mass media -- Religious aspects.
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Mass media -- Religious aspects
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Religion and culture
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Massenkultur
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Religion
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communication de masse -- culture -- religion.
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Religion och kultur.
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Massmedia -- religiösa aspekter.
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| Genre/Form |
Kongress.
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Oxford (2007)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Arweck, Elisabeth
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CPQS
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Woodbrooke
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| ISBN |
9781351937580 |
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1351937588 |
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9781315255613 |
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1315255618 |
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