Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. Introduction: The Cultural Construction of Religion in the Media Age 1
5. 1. Overview: The “Protestantization” of Research into Media, Religion, and Culture 7
6. Part I: MEDIATION IN POPULAR RELIGIOUS PRACTICE
7. 2. Protestant Visual Practice and American Mass Culture 35
8. 3. Believing in Elvis: Popular Piety in Material Culture 63
9. PART 2. THE MEDIATION OF RELIGION IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE
10. 4. Public Art as Sacred Space: Asian American Community Murals in Los Angeles 87
11. 5. All the World’s a Stage: The Performed Religion of the Salvation Army, 1880–1920 113
12. 6. “Turn It Off !”: TV Criticism in the Christian Century Magazine, 1946–1960 138
13. PART 3. RELIGION MADE PUBLIC THROUGH THE MEDIA
14. 7. Between Objectivity and Moral Vision: Catholics and Evangelicals in American Journalism 163
15. 8. The Southern Baptist Controversy and the Press 188
16. PART 4. IMPLICIT RELIGION AND MEDIATED PUBLIC RITUAL
17. 9. Scapegoating and Deterrence: Criminal Justice Rituals in American Civil Religion 201
18. 10. Ritual and the Media 219
19. PART 5. EXPLICIT AND PUBLIC EXPRESSION IN NEW MEDIA CONTEXTS
20. 11. Allah On-Line: The Practice of Global Islam in the Information Age 237
21. 12. Internet Ritual: A Case Study of the Construction of Computer-Mediated Neopagan Religious Meaning 254
22. 13. Religious Sensibilities in the Age of the Internet: Freethought Culture and the Historical Context of Communication Media 276
23. PART 6. SPECIFIC RELIGIONS AND SPECIFIC MEDIA IN NATIONAL AND ETHNIC CONTEXTS
24. 14. Religious Television in Sweden: Toward a More Balanced View of Its Reception 291
25. 15. Religious to Ethnic-National Identities: Political Mobilization Through Jewish Images in the United States and Britain, 1881–1939 305
26. 16. Between American Televangelism and African Anglicanism 328
27. 17. “Speaking in Tongues, Writing in Vision”: Orality and Literacy in Televangelistic Communications 345
28. CONTRIBUTORS 361
29. INDEX 367