This thought-provoking book provides an invaluable introduction to the evolving field of media, religion and culture. Mahan's lucid prose combines with a series of fascinating case studies from leading scholars, teachers and researchers. The result is an accessible and nuanced text that sheds light upon creative audiences, dynamic histories and unexpected futures. - Jolyon Mitchell, University of Edinburgh, UK
Understanding the complex relationship between religion and media is no easy feat. In this compelling and insightful volume we are provided with one of the most detailed and well-presented explorations of the intersections between the two. Mahan offers a truly multi-disciplinary approach that is both significant in its depth of study and broad in its range of topics. This book is a must read for anyone interested in exploring religion in contemporary society. - Christopher Helland, Dalhousie University, Canada
This collection locates contemporary religion in the midst of people's struggle to shape identities in media-saturated societies and considers religious life with new forms of digital, personalized media. It discusses important ethical questions and includes a rich range of illustrative examples that help us to understand how religion today is shaped through entanglement in media culture. - Knut Lundby, University of Oslo, Norway
'The particular style of this book, the inclusion of short reflections and illustrations, engages readers. The book is also useful for teachers in their classrooms because it gives key points and discussion questions after each section. The detailed bibliography helps to explore the standard works and research in the fields involved. Overall, this book deals with contemporary topics related to religion, media, and culture and makes the complexity of these areas transparent for its readers by illuminating paradigms. Due to compact explanations of complex issues, this book can be used as a reference point for a deeper understanding of the current representations of religious culture in all differenct kinds of traditional and new media.' - Sajida Fazal, Entangled Religions
This thought-provoking book provides an invaluable introduction to the evolving field of media, religion and culture. Mahan's lucid prose combines with a series of fascinating case studies from leading scholars, teachers and researchers. The result is an accessible and nuanced text that sheds light upon creative audiences, dynamic histories and unexpected futures. - Jolyon Mitchell, University of Edinburgh, UK
Understanding the complex relationship between religion and media is no easy feat. In this compelling and insightful volume we are provided with one of the most detailed and well-presented explorations of the intersections between the two. Mahan offers a truly multi-disciplinary approach that is both significant in its depth of study and broad in its range of topics. This book is a must read for anyone interested in exploring religion in contemporary society. - Christopher Helland, Dalhousie University, Canada
This collection locates contemporary religion in the midst of people's struggle to shape identities in media-saturated societies and considers religious life with new forms of digital, personalized media. It discusses important ethical questions and includes a rich range of illustrative examples that help us to understand how religion today is shaped through entanglement in media culture. - Knut Lundby, University of Oslo, Norway
For several years now, Media, Religion and Culture has been an established series of volumes on the relationship between religion, shaped by the media of its time, and media, used by members of religions to influence their publics... This book is a successful attempt at a handbook for classroom (or individual) reflection on the relationship between media, religion, and culture. It is highly recommended as an introduction to the sometimes problematic relations between the three. - Hans Geybels, University of Leuven, Belgium
