Description
Book SynopsisExamines the public presence of religion in the information age worldwide.
Trade Review. . . an important contribution to a flourishing ethnographic literature on the globalizing nexus of religion and media . . . Taken together, these chapters complexify and energize the 'public sphere' as Jurgen Habermas conceptualizes this realm, and also show mass mediation's close relationship to religious identity politics. . . . Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere deepens the inquiry into the 'new politics of belonging' . . . that mass media facilitate in realms of faith making. As is apparent in the book's fine introduction . . . anthropology has much to gain by continuing its engagements along these lines.
* American Anthropologist *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction Birgit Meyer and Annelies Moors
Part I. Mediated Religion and Its New Publics
1. Cassette Ethics: Public Piety and Popular Media in Egypt Charles Hirschkind
2. Future in the Mirror: Media, Evangelicals, and Politics in Rio de Janeiro Patricia Birman
3. Communicating Authority, Consuming Tradition: Jewish Orthodox Outreach Literature and Its Reading Public Jeremy Stolow
4. Holy Pirates: Media, Ethnicity, and Religious Renewal in Israel David Lehmann and Batia Siebzehner
Part II. Public Religion and the Politics of Difference
5. Representing Family Law Debates in Palestine: Gender and the Politics of Presence Annelies Moors
6. Morality, Community, Publicness: Shifting Terms of Public Debate in Mali Dorothea E. Schulz
7. Media and Violence in an Age of Transparency: Journalistic Writing on War-Torn Maluku Patricia Spyer
8. Mediated Religion in South Africa: Balancing Airtime and Rights Claims Rosalind I. J. Hackett
9. Rethinking the "Voice Of God" in Indigenous Australia: Secrecy, Exposure, and the Efficacy of Media Faye Ginsburg
Part III. Religious Representations and/as Entertainment
10. Synchronizing Watches: The State, the Consumer, and Sacred Time in Ramadan Television Walter Armbrust
11. Becoming "Secular-Muslims": Yaşar Nuri Öztürk as a Super-subject on Turkish Television Ayşe Öncü
12. Gods in the Sacred Marketplace: Hindu Nationalism and the Return of the Aura in the Public Sphere Sudeep Dasgupta
13. The Saffron Screen? Hindu Nationalism and the Hindi Film Rachel Dwyer
14. Impossible Representations: Pentecostalism, Vision, and Video Technology in Ghana Birgit Meyer
Contributors
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