Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere

"... one of those rare edited volumes that advances social thought
as it provides substantive religious and media ethnography that is good to think
with." -- Dale Eickelman, Dartmouth College

Increasingly,
Pentecostal, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, and indigenous movements all over the
world make use of a great variety of modern mass media, both print and electronic.
Through religious booklets, radio broadcasts, cassette tapes, television talk-shows,
soap operas, and documentary film thes...