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The Media Dynamics of Cultural Conflicts in Scandinavia
As Scandinavian societies experience increased ethno-religious diversity, their Christian-Lutheran heritage and strong traditions of welfare and solid...
Religion and Socio-Cultural Change in the Twenty-First Century
Religion is living culture. It continues to play a role in shaping political ideologies, institutional practices, communities of interest, ways of lif...
The growing connections between media, culture, and religion are increasingly evident in our society today but have rarely been linked theoretically u...
Comparing Nordic Countries
This book is an empirical comparative study of the complexity of religion in the public spheres of the five Nordic countries. The result of a five-yea...
Concept, Changes, Consequences
The media are ubiquitous and constantly changing, causing social and cultural shifts. This book examines how processes of mediatization affect almost ...
A History of Dominance and Diversity
From the founding of the first colonies until the present, the influence of Christianity, as the dominant faith in American society, has extended far ...
Self-representations in New Media
Recent years have seen amateur personal stories, focusing on «me», flourish on social networking sites and in digital storytelling workshops. The re...
This book focuses on key challenges related to conducting research on mediatisation, presenting the most current theoretical, empirical, and methodolo...
Perspectives on Online Text and Context
During the 2000's, online literature in Arabic language was popular among a larger readership. Writings on subjects dealing with politics, globalizati...
This handbook on Mediatization of Communication uncovers the interrelation between media changes and changes in culture and society. This is essential...
Mediatizing the Israel Defence Forces
This book applies the concept of mediatization to the contemporary dynamic between war, media and society, with a focus on the Israel Defence Forces (...
'From The Passion of the Christ to the presumed 'clash of civilizations', religion's role in culture is increasingly contested and mediated. Key Words...
Based on extensive fieldwork, this book examines how parents make decisions regulating media use, and how media practices define contemporary family l...
This volume brings together an international team of authors to investigate a wide range of issues concerning the fundamental role of media technologi...
Textures and Contexts of Living Tantric Traditions
This is the first collection of essays to approach the topic of Tantric Studies from the vantage point of ethnography and lived religion, moving beyon...
Studies in Media, Religion, and Culture
This is the first book to bring together many aspects of the interplay between religion, media and culture from around the world in a single comprehen...
Collaborative Creation and Facilitation
Digital Storytelling and Ethics: Collaborative Creation and Facilitation provides a method for analyzing digital storytelling practices that focuses o...
When people hear the term "role-playing games," they tend to think of two things: a group of friends sitting around a table playing Dungeons & Dragons...
Understanding Religious Practice in Digital Media
This book offers a critical and systematic survey of the study of religion and digital media. It covers religious engagement with a wide range of digi...
A Geographical Interpretation of Image Politics in Uttar Pradesh, India
This book investigates image politics during elections and how the political discourse is reflected during the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections in 201...
Armed Conflict and the Ideology of Violence
This book explores the issue of civilian devastation in modern warfare, focusing on the complex processes that effectively establish civilians’ iden...
Annotated Bibliography of Ritual Theory, 1966-2005
Volume two of Theorizing Rituals mainly consists of an annotated bibliography of more than 400 items covering those books, edited volumes and essays t...
Institutional Change and Everyday Transformations in a Digital Age
This volume sheds light on the underlying dynamics of mediatization, disentangling the actual unfolding of mediatization processes. The wide adoption ...
A Discursive Approach to Institutional Religious Change
Marcus Moberg offers a new model of religion and religious life in the post-war era, through focusing on the role of markets and media as vectors of c...
Conceptual Foundations and Contemporary Debate
This book concerns the implications and interrelations of key concepts of culture, defending an updated communicative notion of culture as meaning-mak...
Digital Storytelling Around the World
Story Circle is the first collection ever devoted to a comprehensive international study of the digital storytelling movement, exploring subjects of c...
An Annotated Bibliography, 1988-1999
Virtual texts have emerged within the realm of the Internet as the predominant means of global communication. As both technological and cultural artif...
Revised Edition
The connection between American popular culture and religion is the subject of this multifaceted and innovative collection. In fourteen lively essays ...
Culture and Society in a Media Age
How does the media influence our everyday lives? In which ways do our social worlds change when they interact with media? And what are the consequence...
Classic and Contemporary Approaches and Methodologies
Religion, Theory, Critique is an essential tool for learning about theory and method in the study of religion. Leading experts engage with contemporar...
This volume offers an in-depth investigation of the role of new media in the political, social and cultural life in the region of Europe-Asia. By focu...
Technology - Subjectivity- Aesthetics
How does contemporary literature respond to the digitalized media culture in which it takes part? And how do we study literature in order to shed ligh...
Media Anthropology is an interdisciplinary reader that represents a convergence of issues and interests on anthropological approaches to the study of ...
A Critical Introduction for the Twenty-First Century
Global Perspectives on Digital Literature: A Critical Introduction for the Twenty-First Century explores how digital literary forms shape and are shap...
Is the internet really transforming children and young people’s lives? Is the so-called ‘digital generation’ genuinely benefiting from exciting ...
An Appeal for Pluralism
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Is religion the same as culture? How does it fit with life in the modern world? Do you have to 'believe' to be part of one? From televangelism in the ...
This exciting volume explores how religious meaning is generated and performed in our present digital media ecosystem. It uses the spatial metaphor of...
Provides a contemporary view of the intertwined relationship of communication and religion The Handbook on Religion and Communication presents a detai...