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1. Promoting Peace, Inciting Violence

   The Role of Religion and Media

   By Jolyon Mitchell

   Series: Media, Religion and Culture

   This book explores how media and religion combine to play a role in promoting peace and inciting violence. It analyses a wide range of media - from posters, cartoons and stained glass to websites, radio and film - and draws on diverse examples from around the world, including Iran, Rwanda and South...

   Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge
2. Media and Ritual

   Death, Community and Everyday Life

   By Johanna Sumiala

   Series: Media, Religion and Culture

   This wide-ranging and accessible book offers a stimulating introduction to the field of media anthropology and the study of religious ritual. Johanna Sumiala explores the interweaving of rituals, communication and community. She uses the tools of anthropological enquiry to examine a variety of...

   Published September 25th 2012 by Routledge
3. Godwired

   Religion, Ritual and Virtual Reality

   By Rachel Wagner

   Series: Media, Religion and Culture

   Godwired offers an engaging exploration of religious practice in the digital age. It considers how virtual experiences, like stories, games and rituals, are forms of world-building or "cosmos construction" that serve as a means of making sense of our own world. Such creative and interactive...

   Published November 13th 2011 by Routledge
4. When Religion Meets New Media

   By Heidi Campbell

   Series: Media, Religion and Culture

   This lively book focuses on how different Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities engage with new media. Rather than simply reject or accept new media, religious communities negotiate complex relationships with these technologies in light of their history and beliefs. Heidi Campbell suggests a...

   Published March 11th 2010 by Routledge
5. Brands of Faith

   Marketing Religion in a Commercial Age

   By Mara Einstein

   Series: Media, Religion and Culture

   In a society overrun by commercial clutter, religion has become yet another product sold in the consumer marketplace, and faiths of all kinds must compete with a myriad of more entertaining and more convenient leisure activities. Brands of Faith argues that in order to compete effectively...

   Published September 17th 2007 by Routledge
6. The Lure of Images

   A history of religion and visual media in America

   By David Morgan

   Series: Media, Religion and Culture

   This is the history of the relationship between mass produced visual media and religion in the United States. It is a journey from the 1780s to the present - from early evangelical tracts to teenage witches and televangelists, and from illustrated books to contemporary cinema. David Morgan...

   Published July 30th 2007 by Routledge
7. Religion in the Media Age

   By Stewart M. Hoover

   Series: Media, Religion and Culture

   Looking at the everyday interaction of religion and media in our cultural lives, Hoover’s new book is a fascinating assessment of the state of modern religion. Recent years have produced a marked turn away from institutionalized religions towards more autonomous, individual forms of the search...

   Published April 25th 2006 by Routledge