Full Description
Religion is living culture. It continues to play a role in shaping political ideologies, institutional practices, communities of interest, ways of life and social identities. Mediating Faiths brings together scholars working across a range of fields, including cultural studies, media, sociology, anthropology, cultural theory and religious studies, in order to facilitate greater understanding of recent transformations. Contributors illustrate how religion continues to be responsive to the very latest social and cultural developments in the environments in which it exists. They raise fundamental questions concerning new media and religious expression, religious youth cultures, the links between spirituality, personal development and consumer culture, and contemporary intersections of religion, identity and politics. Together the chapters demonstrate how belief in the superempirical is negotiated relative to secular concerns in the twenty-first century.
Contents
Chapter 1 Editors' Introduction Religion as Living Culture, Michael Bailey, Guy Redden; Part I New Media Religion; Chapter 2 Transformations in British Religious Broadcasting, Stephen Hunt; Chapter 3 Alternative Islamic Voices on the Internet, Aini Linjakumpu; Chapter 4 Mediatizing Faith: Digital Storytelling on the Unspoken 1 This research is carried out in cooperation with Birgit Hertzberg Kaare. Our case study is part of a larger research project, 'MEDIATIZED STORIES. Mediation Perspectives on Digital Storytelling among Youth', funded by the Research Council of Norway 2006-2011, at http://www.intermedia.uio.no/mediatized/, accessed 7 September 2010. Karoline Tømte and Sissel Nyegaard-Larsen provided invaluable help as research assistants. I am also grateful to Gordon Lynch for references on religion in youth cultures in the UK and the USA., Knut Lundby; Chapter 5 Haredim and the Internet: A Hate-Love Affair, Yoel Cohen; Part II Consumption and Lifestyle; Chapter 6 Fixing the Self: Alternative Therapies and Spiritual Logics, Ruth Barcan, Jay Johnston; Chapter 7 Religious Media Events and Branding Religion, Veronika Krönert, Andreas Hepp; Chapter 8 The After-Life of Born-Again Beauty Queens, Karen W. Tice; Chapter 9 How Congregations are Becoming Customers, Rob Warner; Chapter 10 US Evangelicals and the Redefinition of Worship Music, Anna E. Nekola; Part III Youth; Chapter 11 The Making of Muslim Youth Cultures in Europe, Thijl Sunier; Chapter 12 Religious Experience of a Young Megachurch Congregation in Singapore, Joy Kooi-Chin Tong; Part IV Politics and Community; Chapter 13 Recent Literary Representations of British Muslims, Claire Chambers; Chapter 14 Destiny, the Exclusive Brethren and Mediated Politics in New Zealand, Ann Hardy; Chapter 15 Social Security with a Christian Twist in John Howard's Australia 1 My gratitude to Anthony Lambert and Arthur Randell for helping me to clarify and explain the issues outlined in this contribution. Thanks also to the editors for their comments, which have helped to improve the theoretical focus of the chapter., Holly Randell-Moon; Chapter 16 Mediated Spaces of Religious Community in Manila, Philippines, Katharine L. Wiegele;
