{"product_id":"religion-media-and-the-public-sphere-9780253217974","title":"Religion Media and the Public Sphere","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines the public presence of religion in the information age worldwide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e. . . 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.\u003c\/p\u003e * American Anthropologist *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction Birgit Meyer and Annelies Moors\u003cbr\u003ePart I. Mediated Religion and Its New Publics\u003cbr\u003e1. Cassette Ethics: Public Piety and Popular Media in Egypt Charles Hirschkind\u003cbr\u003e2. Future in the Mirror: Media, Evangelicals, and Politics in Rio de Janeiro Patricia Birman\u003cbr\u003e3. Communicating Authority, Consuming Tradition: Jewish Orthodox Outreach Literature and Its Reading Public Jeremy Stolow\u003cbr\u003e4. Holy Pirates: Media, Ethnicity, and Religious Renewal in Israel David Lehmann and Batia Siebzehner\u003cbr\u003ePart II. Public Religion and the Politics of Difference\u003cbr\u003e5. Representing Family Law Debates in Palestine: Gender and the Politics of Presence Annelies Moors\u003cbr\u003e6. Morality, Community, Publicness: Shifting Terms of Public Debate in Mali Dorothea E. Schulz\u003cbr\u003e7. Media and Violence in an Age of Transparency: Journalistic Writing on War-Torn Maluku Patricia Spyer\u003cbr\u003e8. Mediated Religion in South Africa: Balancing Airtime and Rights Claims Rosalind I. J. Hackett\u003cbr\u003e9. Rethinking the \"Voice Of God\" in Indigenous Australia: Secrecy, Exposure, and the Efficacy of Media Faye Ginsburg\u003cbr\u003ePart III. Religious Representations and\/as Entertainment\u003cbr\u003e10. Synchronizing Watches: The State, the Consumer, and Sacred Time in Ramadan Television Walter Armbrust\u003cbr\u003e11. Becoming \"Secular-Muslims\": Yaşar Nuri Öztürk as a Super-subject on Turkish Television Ayşe Öncü\u003cbr\u003e12. Gods in the Sacred Marketplace: Hindu Nationalism and the Return of the Aura in the Public Sphere Sudeep Dasgupta\u003cbr\u003e13. The Saffron Screen? Hindu Nationalism and the Hindi Film Rachel Dwyer\u003cbr\u003e14. Impossible Representations: Pentecostalism, Vision, and Video Technology in Ghana Birgit Meyer\u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MH - Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51862520365399,"sku":"9780253217974","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253217974.jpg?v=1759918016","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/religion-media-and-the-public-sphere-9780253217974","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}