Mediating religion : conversations in media, religion and culture / edited by Jolyon Mitchell and Sophia Marriage.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-383) and indexes.

Identity, media and religion. Religion, media and identity : theory and method in audience research on religion and media / Stewart M. Hoover -- The 'funky' side of religion : an ethnographic study of adolescent religious identity and the media / Lynn Schofield Clark -- Desperately seeking credibility : English Catholics, the news media and the church / Jim McDonnell -- Conflict, media and religion. Managing or manipulating religious conflict in the Nigerian media / Rosalind I.J. Hackett -- Representations of Islam in American news and film : becoming the 'other' / Rubina Ramji -- Islam and the American news media post September 11 / Mark Silk -- Popular piety, media and religion. The media of popular piety / John P. Ferre -- Unexplored eloquencies : music, media, religion and culture / Jeremy Begbie -- Protestant visual piety and the aesthetics of American mass culture / David Morgan -- Christ and the media : considerations on the negotiation of meaning in religious television / Myrna R. Grant -- Media literacy and religion. Practising [id est practicing] attention in media culture / Mary E. Hess -- Mormons and media literacy : exploring the dynamics of religious media education / Daniel A. Stout, David W. Scott -- The communication formation of church leaders as a holistic concern / Franz-Josef Eilers -- Film and religion. Towards a new religious film criticism : using film to understand religious identity rather than locate cinematic analogue / Steve Nolan -- The Catholic Church and its attitude to film as an arbiter of cultural meaning / Gaye Ortiz -- From popular to arthouse : an analysis of love and nature as religious motifs in recent cinema / Jorg Herrmann -- Paradise lost or paradise learned? Sin and salvation in Pleasantville / Christopher Deacy -- New media and religion. Approaches to religious research in computer-mediated communication / Heidi Campbell -- Internet, religion and the attribution of social trust / Alf Linderman, Mia Lovheim -- The decent society and cyberspace / Cees Hamelink -- Myth and ritual in cyberspace / Gregor Goethals -- Electronic media and the past-future of Christianity / Peter Horsfield -- Media ethics and religion. The emerging 'communitarian' ethics of public communication / Robert A. White -- Cross-cultural ethics and truth / Clifford G. Christians -- Foundation of communication in Islamic societies / Hamid Mowlana -- Communitarian media theory with an African flexion / Mark Fackler -- A brief look at the ethics of broadcasting / Richard Holloway -- Conclusion. Emerging conversations in the study of media, religion and culture / Jolycon Mitchell.