Quoting God : how media shape ideas about religion and culture / [print]
edited by Claire Hoertz Badaracco.
- Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, (c)2005.
- xv, 317 pages ; 23 cm.
Quotation and the life of public texts Journalism and the religious imagination God talk in the public square The first amendment and the Falun Gong A framework for understanding fundamentalism Biblical prophecy and foreign policy Last words : death and public self-expression Collective memory, national identity : victims and victimizers in Japan Appalachian regional identity in national media The Virgin of Guadalupe as cultural icon Reporting complexity : science and religion Vatican opinion on modern communication A relationship of overlapping conversations Claire Hoertz Badaracco -- John Schmalzbauer -- C. Welton Gaddy -- Paul Moses -- Rebecca Moore -- Paul S. Boyer -- John P. Ferre -- Richard A. Gardner -- Howard Dorgan -- Virgilio Elizondo -- Jame Schaefer -- Paul Soukup -- Gustav Niebuhr.
"Quoting God charts the many ways in which media report religion news, how media use the quoted word to describe lived faith, and how media itself influence - and are influenced by - religion in the public square. The volume intentionally brings together the work of academics, who study religion as a crucial factor in the construction of identity, and the work of professional journalists, who regularly report on religion in an age of instant and competitive news. This book clearly demonstrates that the relationship between media culture and spiritual culture is foundational and multi-directional; that the relationship between news values and religion in political life is influential; and that the relationship among modernity, belief, and journalism is pivotal."--BOOK JACKET.
9781932792065
2004019144
Mass media--Religious aspects--Christianity. Mass media and culture. Christianity and culture.