Meditating Religion Conversations in Media, Religion, and Culture Book

Introduction PART 1: POPULAR PIETY AND MEDIA
1. David Morgan: Visual Piety and the Aesthetics of Mass Culture
2. Erica Doss: Staging the Sacred, Mass Media Attention to the Visual and Material Culture of Grief and Mourning
3. Kelly Denton Borhaug: How Do Women Internalise Christian Atonement Symbols: Analysis of the 1996 Film 'Breaking the Waves'
4. Ted Harrison: The Role of the Media in the Development of Modern Folk-Faith and Popular Religious Movements
5. John Ferre: Religious Responses to the Death of Farley in 'For Better or for Worse'

PART 2: MEDIA, MEANING AND IDENTITY
1. Stewart Hoover: New Paper
2. Hamid Mowlana: Media, Islam and Culture - and a Short Response by Mona Siddiqui
3. Jim McDonnell: Desperately Seeking Credibility, English Catholics, the Media and the Church
4. Philip Rossi: The Levelling of Meaning, The Religious Challenge of the Culture of Unconcern
5. Lynn Schofield-Clark: 'If You Stay Away from Nintendo, You'll Read the Qur'an More', Religious Identities of 'Others' in the Context of a Christian

PART 3: MEDIA LITERACY, COMMUNITY AND YOUTH CULTURE
1. Daniel Stout: Mormons and Media Literacy, Exploring Audience Dynamics of Religious Media Education
2. Ailsa Tomkinson: Adolescent Perceptions of Religious Identity within Popular Broadcasting
3. Mary Hess: Media Literacy as a Support for the Development of a Responsible Imagination in Religious Community
4. Jose Martinez-de-Toda: Youth, Media and Spirituality

PART 4: COMMUNICATION THEOLOGY
1. Peter Horsfield: Back to the Future, Media, Culture and Faith Communities
2. John Forrest: Entertainment and Theology
3. Jeremy Begbie: Music, Media and God
4. Franz Josef Eilers: The Communication Formation of Church Leaders as a Holistic Concern
5. Francis Plude: Communication Theology, Report on a Construction Project

PART 5: COMMUNICATION ETHICS
1. Clifford Christians: Feminist Social Ethics
2. Andrew Moemeka: Communalism Versus Modernism, The Struggle Between Ethics and Convenience in Africa
3. Cees Hamelink: Global Billboards, Religions and Human Rights
4. Richard Holloway: The Nature of Truth in a Media Saturated Context
5. Bob White: A Historical Change in Communitarian Ethics, The Emerging Communitarian Normative Theory
6. Mark Fackler: Communitarian Media Theory with an African Flexion, and a Note on the Maelstrom

PART 6: FILM AND RELIGION
1. Steve Nolan: Representing Realities, Theorising Identity Through Liturgy and Film
2. Linda Mercadante: Faith and Film, Teaching Theology Through Film
3. Christopher Deacy: An Application of the Christian Concept of Redemption Through the Cinema of Martin Scorsese
4. Jorg Herrmann: Religion in the Popular Cinema of the Nineties
5. Jeffrey Keuss: The Sorrows of Young Annakin Skywalker, The Notion of Bildung as Genre in Contemporary Film
6. Diane Winston: Devin in a Blue Dress or the Doughboy's Goddess? Hollywood Images of Salvation Army Womanhood 1910-1955
7. Annalee Ward: Mixing Moral Messages, A Recipe for Confusion in Recent Disney Animated Films

PART 7: CYBERSPACE AND RELIGION
1. Gregor Goethals: Myth and Ritual in Cyber Space
2. Anne Foerst: Myth and Ritual in Cyber Space
3. Stephen O'Leary: Y2K in Religious and Mainstream Media, Techno-Eschatology at the Millennium's End
4. John Capper and Mark Freeman: Christian Community and Cyberspace, A Case Study in Exposure to New Possibilities
5. Alf Linderman and Mia Lovheim: Internet and Religion, The Making of Meaning, Identity and Community Through Virtual Interaction?
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