{"product_id":"mediating-catholicism-9781350228177","title":"Mediating Catholicism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book focuses on the ethnographic study of Catholicism and media. Chapters demonstrate how people engage with the Catholic media-scape, and analyse the social, cultural, and political processes that underlie Catholic media and mediatization.     Case studies examine Catholic practices in North America, Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America, South-East Asia, and Africa, providing a truly comparative, de-centred representation of global Catholicism.     Illustrating the vibrancy and heterogeneity of Catholicism world-wide, the book also examines how media work to sustain larger global Catholic imaginaries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a really exhilarating collection that demonstrates not only the complex relationship between Catholicism and Media, but also the extent to which Catholicism is a religion of Media. It brings together top rate scholarship covering regional and national Catholicisms, as well as a range of different media: print, radio, television, and social media. It also extends the notion of media to explore themes such as the word ‘love’ as a form of Catholic medium, and ritual as media. It is ground-breaking and fascinating. A major contribution to contemporary religious scholarship. * Jon P. Mitchell, Professor of Anthropology, University of Sussex, UK *\u003cbr\u003eThis book, which comes at a very exciting time when faith communities are at various levels of discovering, exploring, and maximizing the media at their disposal, would be a great addition to any library as an indispensable resource when it comes to the field of religion and society, especially under the aspect of communication. It certainly helps that the book is written in a way that is accessible and engaging not only for scholars and academics but also for communicators and pastors for whom they would surely be of much interest and help. * Religion and Social Communication *\u003cbr\u003eThe editors are equipped to develop an approach to media that overcomes the limitations of the implicitly positivistic approach that informs most of the work on how media transform religious practice or how religions have shaped various media fields. * Exchange: Journal of Contemporary Christianities in Context *\u003cbr\u003eThe volume...reaches beyond scholarship on Catholicism, reflecting the authors’ goal of inspiring others to develop “theories of mediation and mediatization as they relate to religion” at large.... The book is thus required reading for any scholar of social media, new forms of religious identities, secularization, and media-based faith socialities. * American Ethnologist *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Images List of Contributors Acknowledgements  Introduction: Mediating Catholicism,\u003ci\u003e Marc Loustau (College of the Holy Cross, USA), Kristin Norget (McGill University, Canada), and Eric Hoenes del Pinal (University of North Carolina, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 1. Mediatizing Holy Week: Guatemalan Catholic Experiments with Radio and Facebook, \u003ci\u003eEric Hoenes del Pinal (University of North Carolina, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 2. NFP Online: The Mutable Religious Space of Social Media,\u003ci\u003e Katherine Dugan (Springfield College, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 3. The Stakes of Catholic Media Practices in Chad, \u003ci\u003eLudovic Lado (Center for Research and Action for Peace, Institute of Human Dignity and Rights, Ivory Coast)\u003c\/i\u003e 4. 'This station only runs on Love’: Post-Bureaucratic Evangelism in a Transylvanian Catholic Media Organization, \u003ci\u003eMarc Loustau (College of the Holy Cross, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 5. A Touch of Love: On Words, Things, and the Global Aspirations of U.S. Catholics, \u003ci\u003eHillary Kaell (Concordia University, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e 6. Religious Celebrities and the Expansion of Suffering in the Philippines and Timor-Leste, \u003ci\u003eJulius Bautista (Kyoto University, Japan)\u003c\/i\u003e 7. Exorcism in the Media, \u003ci\u003eThomas J. Csordas (University of California, San Diego, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 8. Abundance and the Late Capitalist Imagination: Catholicism and Fashion at the Metropolitan Museum, \u003ci\u003eElayne Oliphant (New York University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 9. Miraculous Sovereignties: Mediation and the Señor de los, \u003ci\u003eKristin Norget (McGill University, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e 10. The Mediatization of Catholicism: Some Challenges and Remarks, \u003ci\u003eLuis Mauro Sa Martino (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eFaculdade Cásper Líbero, Brazil)\u003c\/i\u003e Notes  Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019640406359,"sku":"9781350228177","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350228177.jpg?v=1750780873","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mediating-catholicism-9781350228177","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}