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Religion IN AND in the Media
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What changed...•Media technologies encouraged
fragmentation of audiences and markets
•Increasing questing of religious/spiritual belief. (2003 religion survey)
•Decline of role of institutions (home, school, church, etc.) to help individuals make sense of their social experience. Late modernity- focus on self
•Rise of “culture of therapy”, personal autonomy- Generation of seekers.
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Giddens and Late Modernity
•Proliferation of knowledge (and doubt about absolutes) has complicated social experience for individuals
•Self and identity are fluid; not fixed. Are in the hands of social actors.
•Rise of a generation of individual quest for knowledge aided by commodified mediation of information.
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Roof: Lived Religion
•Religion as experienced in everyday life
•Integrating the official, the popular, and the therapeutic modes of religious identity.
•The media then play a critical role in providing cultural and religious meaning
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Media as Symbolic inventory
•News: traditional and alternative sources
•religious broadcasting and televangelism- Christian Music
•Religious publishing: Christian Booksellers of America, Artscroll, American Trust Publications.
•Entertainment media: a vast exploration of religion and cross-over (Hallmark, Oxygen, Lifetime)
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