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[Commlist] new book: Handbook on Religion & Communication

Tue Mar 21 17:07:46 GMT 2023





*THE HANDBOOK ON RELIGION & COMMUNICATION*

     We are delighted to announce the publication of The Handbook on Religion & Communication by John Wiley-Blackwell Publishers/IAMCR in the series of Gloibal Handbooks in Media and Communuication Research .

     The Handbook on Religion and Communication aspires to map out the wider interactions of communication, religious identity, and behavior - against the background of today’s digital age, old media, interpersonal communication, and material religion (to name just a few kinds of communication).

    The Handbook on Religion and Communication opens with theoretical material on how scholars have approached the study of communication and religion; and overviews of doctrinal discussions of how the major faiths of the world view mass media, and, in particular, ethical media conduct. The second section presents reviews of how major religious traditions, including Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, traditional African religions, Jainism, and Confucianism, view communication media. The third section shifts the focus to the different kinds of religious communication sponsored by religious groups: broadcasting, televangelism, public relations, crisis communication, and web-based media. A fourth section highlights how religious groups also use other media in their pastoral ministry, expressions of piety, and religious education.

                The  Handbook then focuses on first, how media institutions face religion: the mediatization of religion, news coverage of religion, the views of religion in entertainment media, in film, and in documentary cinema; secondly,  functional perspectives on the ways in which religious communication serves various religious functions, whether in fostering the social functions of religious belief, creating meaning, celebrating rituals, or marking death;  thirdly, different cultural perspectives, with essays examining religious communication as it interacts with gender and race, material religion, sexuality, authority, and community development; and finally the book surveys trends in online religion, including during Covid-19.

    Below is a link with more details of the Handbook.  We hope that the Handbook will be of interest and that you will be agreeable to recommend the Handbook be displayed on the IAMCR websites.

https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Handbook+of+Religion+and+Communication-p-9781119671558


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