Stewart M. Hoover

Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture/ - New York: SAGE, 2012.

Part I: Analysis of Media, Religion, and Culture

Chapter 1: Introduction: Setting the Agenda
Chapter 2: At the Intersection of Media, Culture, and Religion: A Bibliographic Essay
Chapter 3: Religion and Media in the Construction of Cultures
Chapter 4: Technology and Triadic Theories of Mediation
Part II: Media, Religion, and Culture: Contemporary Society

Chapter 5: The Re-Enchantment of the World: Religion and the Transformations of Modernity
Chapter 6: Mass Media as a Site of Resacralization of Contemporary Cultures
Chapter 7: Escape from Time: Ritual Dimensions of Popular Culture
Chapter 8: The Dispersed Sacred: Anomie and the Crisis of Ritual
Chapter 9: The Web of Collective Representations
Part III: Media, Religion, and Culture: Changing Institutions

Chapter 10: Changes in Religion in Periods of Media Convergence
Chapter 11: Media, Meaning, and Method in Religious Studies
Chapter 12: Televangelism: Redressive Ritual within a Larger Social Drama
Chapter 13: Resistance Through Mediated Orality
Part IV: Media, Religion, and Culture: Individual Practice

Chapter 14: Psychologized Religion in a Mediated World
Chapter 15: A Utopian on Main Street
Chapter 16: Making Sense of Religion in Television
Chapter 17: Media and the Construction of the Religious Public Sphere
Chapter 18: Summary Remarks: Mediated Religion

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