The Handbook of Religion and Communication
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Overview
The Handbook of Religion and Communication presents a detailed investigation of the complex interaction between media and religion, offering diverse perspectives on how both traditional and new media sources continue to impact religious belief and practice across multiple faiths around the globe. Contributions from leading international scholars address key themes such as the changing role of religious authority in the digital age, the role of media in cultural shifts away from religious institutions, and the ways modern technologies have transformed how religion is communicated and portrayed.
Divided into five parts, the Handbook opens with a state-of-the-art overview of the subject’s intellectual landscape, introducing the historical background, theoretical foundations, and major academic approaches to communication, media, and religion. Subsequent sections focus on institutional and functional perspectives, theological and cultural approaches, and new approaches in digital technologies. The essays provide insight into a wide range of topics, including religious use of media, religious identity, audience gratification, religious broadcasting, religious content in entertainment, films and religion, news reporting about religion, race and gender, the sex-religion matrix, religious crisis communication, public relations and advertising, televangelism, pastoral ministry, death and the media, online religion, future directions in religious communication, and more.
- Explores the increasing role of media in creating religious identity and communicating religious experience
- Discusses the development and evolution of the communication practices of various religious bodies
- Covers all major media sources including radio, television, film, press, digital online content, and social media platforms
- Presents key empirical research, real-world case studies, and illustrative examples throughout
- Encompasses a variety of perspectives, including individual and institutional actors, academic and theoretical areas, and different forms of communication media
- Explores media and religion in Judeo-Christian traditions, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, religions of Africa, Atheism, and others
The Handbook of Religion and Communication is an essential resource for scholars, academic researchers, practical theologians, seminarians, mass communication researchers, and undergraduate and graduate students taking courses on media and religion.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781119671589 |
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Publisher: | Wiley |
Publication date: | 02/14/2023 |
Series: | Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research |
Sold by: | JOHN WILEY & SONS |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 500 |
File size: | 8 MB |
About the Author
PAUL A. SOUKUP, S.J., is Professor and past Head of the Department of Communication at Santa Clara University, where he teaches courses in technology, communication, and theology. He is the author of Communication and Theology a Christian Communication: A Bibliographical Survey Media; and The Media Ecology of Theology: Communicating Faith Throughout the Christian Tradition, and co-editor of Mass Media and the Moral Imagination and Fidelity and Translation: Communicating the Bible in New Media.
Table of Contents
Contributors ixIntroduction 1
Part I Theoretical Background 5
1 Academic Approaches to Communication, Media, and Religion 7 Lynn Schofield Clark and Heidi Ippolito
2 Communication, Media, and Religion Research: Theoretical Roots 23 Stephen Garner
3 Theology and Communication 39 Paul A. Soukup S.J.
4 Religious Traditions and Ethics in Communication 55 Robert S. Fortner
Part II Theological Perspectives 69
5 Christianity and the Mass Media 71 Mary Catherine Kennedy Copyrighted Material
6 Communication in Judaism and Islam 83 Yoel Cohen and Hadi Enayat
7 Religious Communication in Asia 99 Anthony Le Duc and Keval J. Kumar
8 African Religions and Communication 117 Joseph Muyangata and Mark Fackler
9 Atheism and the Media 131 Teemu Taira
Part III Religions as Actors 145
10 Religious Broadcasting: An Overview, 2000–2021 147 Jim McDonnell
11 Religious Personalities and Televangelism 165 Paul A. Soukup S.J.
12 Public Relations and Advertising 181 Carlo Nardella
13 “Survival and Salvation”: Religious Situational Crisis Communication Strategies 197 Gregory P. Perreault, Mildred. F. Perreault, and Monica Crawford
14 Web Presence 213 Amanda Sturgill
Part IV Individual Religious Communication 229
15 Pastoral Ministry and Communication 231 Daniella Zsupan-Jerome
16 Piety, Religious Identity, and the Media 241 Damian Guzek and Piotr S. Bobkowski
17 Youth, Education, and Media 257 Mary E. Hess
Part V Media Institutions 271
18 Mediatization 273 Knut Lundby
19 Reporting Religion News 287 Yoel Cohen
20 Entertainment 301 Allan Novaes
21 Religion and Film 315 Joel Mayward
22 Documentary Film and Religious Faith in Historical Perspective 337 John P. Ferré
Part VI Functional Perspectives 351
23 The Role of Media in Creating Communities of Religious Belief and Identity 353 Myna German
24 Religion and Meaning 365 Johannes Ehrat
25 Religious Rituals, Pilgrimages, Festivals, and Media: Exploring the Interface 383 Gnana Patrick
26 Death, Spirituality, and Digital Afterlife 399 Johanna Sumiala
Part VII Cultural Perspectives 415
27 Incipient Diversity: Gender and Race in Media and Religion Research 417 Chiung Hwang Chen
28 Material Religion 433 Felicia Katz-Harris
29 The Sex–Religion Matrix 453 Ruth Tsuria and Jason Bartashius
30 Authority, Religion, and Media 469 Míriam Díez Bosch and Alba Sabaté Gauxachs
31 Religion and Development Communication 487 Robert A. White
Part VIII Approaches in New Technologies 503
32 Internet, Mobile Technology, and Religion 505 Miriam Díez Bosch and Josep Lluís Micó
33 Online Religion 521 Rohit Chopra
Index 537