Searching God In The Media Market Convergence Of Theology And Media

Author : John Joshva Raja
Publisher : PublishAmerica
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781462687497

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Searching God in the Media Market: Convergence of Theology and Media by John Joshva Raja Pdf

This book is holding an excellent dialogue between theology and media disciplines. It provides challenges to theologians to think about their perspectives, attitudes and practices of media and technology while it also challenges those media personnel who are involved in religious broadcasting with nuance theological thinking. This book on the one hand highlights the importance of recognizing the hermeneutic role of imagination, aesthetical aspects and new genre of media and communication today and on the other hand critically engages with media institution and technology that work around only profit making and mere entertaining (and thus alienating from real world) practices and ideas within them. This book brings out some controversies in this area to the light and hopes to initiate further discussions in this area of better community relationship and transformation through media and communication. Having brought some new ideas into light this book brings back a good dialogue between theology and media which will help those involved in rediscovering God's mission within the churches, within the media institutions and also within all those who serve humanity in various ways using the media and communication tools.

Author : Irfan Ahmad,Pralay Kanungo
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199097531

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The Algebra of Warfare-Welfare by Irfan Ahmad,Pralay Kanungo Pdf

Electoral democracy combines the ideas and practices of warfare and welfare, where both work in tandem as near synonyms. India’s robust electoral democracy exemplifies this combination in diverse forms. Critically analysing the 2014 Parliamentary elections beyond the seduction of immediacy and bare cold statistics, this book puts human subjectivity at the centre of election studies and, through an anthropological–sociological approach, makes lives—human and non-human, lived and unlived or unlivable—central to any understanding of elections and democracy. Crafting a new, comprehensive approach, this volume looks at the 2014 elections in relation to the changing nature and forms of elections and democracy globally. Coming from multidisciplinary backgrounds, the contributors to this volume use ethnographic observations to open up a space for new theoretical and methodological reflections on the role of media in Indian elections, the shift to the right in 2014 and its consequences, the significance of traditional Hindu spaces such as the river Ganga in BJP’s victory, the role of gurus like Baba Ramdev, and the electoral choices available to and exercised by the minorities, among others.

Author : Andrew Byers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0718893522

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Theomedia by Andrew Byers Pdf

This book is a hermeneutical project in the church's wider efforts of trying to understand the technological mediascape of the twenty-first century. The purpose is not to offer a how-to guidebook to help churches incorporate communications technology into their worship and witness. Byers provides something more foundational, the beginnings of a way of constructing a theological frame of reference for understanding and appropriating media in the digital age and in the ages to come.

Author : Daniel A. Stout,Judith M. Buddenbaum
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1996-03-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015037347161

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Religion and Mass Media by Daniel A. Stout,Judith M. Buddenbaum Pdf

In the first part, contributors set the framework by describing recent theoretical developments in the sociology of religion and communication theory. Part II provides an overview of certain religious beliefs; Part III looks at audience behavior; Part IV describes specific case studies (including one on rap music); and Part V looks at the changing information environment and the future.

Author : Harvey Cox
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674973152

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The Market as God by Harvey Cox Pdf

The Market has deified itself, according to Harvey Cox’s brilliant exegesis. And all of the world’s problems—widening inequality, a rapidly warming planet, the injustices of global poverty—are consequently harder to solve. Only by tracing how the Market reached its divine status can we hope to restore it to its proper place as servant of humanity.

Author : Kieran Flanagan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000833638

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A Sociology of Seeking by Kieran Flanagan Pdf

A response to the depletion of the rhetoric of sociology and the spiritual capital of theology, this volume explores the remains of Christianity that still lurk as portents in a progressively de-Christianised society seeking replacements for belief. With the sociologist set in the role of an oracle seeking traces of Christianity in a discipline in which the intrusion of theological understandings has become harder to resist, it offers a narrative of belief following the direction of an exemplary portent: the finger. Through the exploration of broad trends in culture and modern history, this study, informed by interactionist thought, examines both the place of sociology in Christian theology, and the failure of theology to connect to its surrounding culture, asking how the two disciplines might meld profitably together. As such, it will appeal to social theorists and theologians, as well as sociologists with interests in religion, culture and secularisation.

Author : Stewart M. Hoover,Nabil Echchaibi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110496086

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Media and Religion by Stewart M. Hoover,Nabil Echchaibi Pdf

The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems- both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.

Author : Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Publisher : Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Autoroutes, lectroniques
ISBN : 9780886273866

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Seeking Convergence in Policy and Practice by Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Pdf

Author : Mara Einstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134130108

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Brands of Faith by Mara Einstein Pdf

In a society overrun by commercial clutter, religion has become yet another product sold in the consumer marketplace, and faiths of all kinds must compete with a myriad of more entertaining and more convenient leisure activities. Brands of Faith argues that in order to compete effectively faiths have had to become brands – easily recognizable symbols and spokespeople with whom religious prospects can make immediate connections Mara Einstein shows how religious branding has expanded over the past twenty years to create a blended world of commerce and faith where the sacred becomes secular and the secular sacred. In a series of fascinating case studies of faith brands, she explores the significance of branded church courses, such as Alpha and The Purpose Driven Life, mega-churches, and the popularity of the televangelist Joel Olsteen and television presenter Oprah Winfrey, as well as the rise of Kaballah. She asks what the consequences of this religious marketing will be, and outlines the possible results of religious commercialism – good and bad. Repackaging religion – updating music, creating teen-targeted bibles – is justifiable and necessary. However, when the content becomes obscured, religion may lose its unique selling proposition – the very ability to raise us above the market.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018837315

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Religion Index Two by Anonim Pdf

Author : Miguel E. Vatter
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780823233199

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Crediting God by Miguel E. Vatter Pdf

The essays in this book shed interdisciplinary and multicultural light on a hypothesis that helps to account for such an unexpected convergence of enlightenment and religion in our times: Religion has reentered the public sphere because it puts into question the relation between God and the concept of political sovereignty.

Author : William H. U. Anderson
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781648890864

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Technology and Theology by William H. U. Anderson Pdf

Technology is growing at an exponential rate vis-à-vis humanity’s ability to control it. Moreover, the numerous ethical issues that technology raises are also troubling. These statements, however, may be alarmist—since Telus would tell us “The Future is Friendly”. The Modernist vision of the future was utopic, for instance Star Trek of the 1960s. But postmodern views, such as are found in Blade Runner 2049, are dystopic. Theology is in a unique interdisciplinary position to deal with the many issues, pro and con, that technology raises. Even theologians like Origen in the third century and Aquinas in the thirteenth century made forays into Artificial Intelligence and surrounding issues (they just didn’t know it at the time). Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Transhumanism raise questions about what it means to be human. What is consciousness? What is soul? What are life and death? Can technology really save us and give us eternal life? Theology is in a unique position to handle these questions and issues. This book also has practical applications in terms of ecclesiology (church) in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic—both in terms of what it means to be a church and in terms of the sacraments or ordinances. Is there such a thing as a “Virtual Church” or must we gather physically to constitute one? Are Baptism and Communion legitimate if one is not physically in a church building but are “online”? This book struggles with these and many other questions which will help the scholar or reader make up their own minds, however tentatively.

Author : Hent de Vries,Samuel Weber
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0804734976

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Religion and Media by Hent de Vries,Samuel Weber Pdf

Counter The twenty-five contributors to this volume - who include such influential thinkers as Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, Talal Asad, and James Siegel - confront the conceptual, analytical, and empirical difficulties involved in addressing the complex relationship between religion and media. The book's introductory section offers a prolegomenon to the multiple problems raised by an interdisciplinary approach to these multifaceted phenomena. The essays in the following part provide exemplary approaches to the historical and systematic background to the study of religion and media. The third part presents case studies by anthropologists and scholars of comparative religion. The book concludes with two remarkable documents: a chapter from Theodor W. Adorno's study of the relationship between religion and media in the context of political agitation (The Psychological Technique of Martin Luther Thomas's Radio Addresses) and a section from Niklas Luhmann's monumental Die Gesellschaft der Gesellschaft (Society as a Social System).

Author : Christian Smith,Patricia Snell
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195371796

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Souls in Transition by Christian Smith,Patricia Snell Pdf

Based on candid interviews with thousands of young people tracked over a five-year period, this book reveals how the religious practices of the teenagers portrayed in Soul Searching have been strengthened, challenged, and often changed as they have moved into adulthood.

Author : Robert Wuthnow
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400837243

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America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity by Robert Wuthnow Pdf

Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and adherents of other non-Western religions have become a significant presence in the United States in recent years. Yet many Americans continue to regard the United States as a Christian society. How are we adapting to the new diversity? Do we casually announce that we "respect" the faiths of non-Christians without understanding much about those faiths? Are we willing to do the hard work required to achieve genuine religious pluralism? Award-winning author Robert Wuthnow tackles these and other difficult questions surrounding religious diversity and does so with his characteristic rigor and style. America and the Challenges of Religious Diversity looks not only at how we have adapted to diversity in the past, but at the ways rank-and-file Americans, clergy, and other community leaders are responding today. Drawing from a new national survey and hundreds of in-depth qualitative interviews, this book is the first systematic effort to assess how well the nation is meeting the current challenges of religious and cultural diversity. The results, Wuthnow argues, are both encouraging and sobering--encouraging because most Americans do recognize the right of diverse groups to worship freely, but sobering because few Americans have bothered to learn much about religions other than their own or to engage in constructive interreligious dialogue. Wuthnow contends that responses to religious diversity are fundamentally deeper than polite discussions about civil liberties and tolerance would suggest. Rather, he writes, religious diversity strikes us at the very core of our personal and national theologies. Only by understanding this important dimension of our culture will we be able to move toward a more reflective approach to religious pluralism.