[ecrea] new book: Mediatization and Religion

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*NEW BOOK FROM NORDICOM:*

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*MEDIATIZATION AND RELIGION: NORDIC PERSPECTIVES*

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/Stig Hjarvard & Mia Lövheim (eds) /Nordicom, 2012, 210 p. ISBN 
978-91-86523-44-2

This book presents new research on the changing relationship between the 
media, religion and culture from a Nordic perspective, while engaging 
with the theory of the mediatization of religion. In contemporary 
society, news journalism, film and television series, as well as new 
digital media, provide critical commentary on religion while also 
enabling new forms of religious imagery and interaction. Religious 
leaders, communities and individuals reflexively negotiate their 
presence within this new mediatized reality. In an increasingly 
globalized Nordic context, the media have also come to play an important 
role in the performance of both individual and social identities, and in 
the representation and development of social and religious conflicts. 
Through empirical analysis and theoretical discussions, scholars from 
film and media studies, the sociology of religion, and theology 
contribute to the development of the theory of the mediatization of 
religion as well as to the broader research field of media, religion and 
culture.

Price: SEK 240, € 28 (+P&P)

*Contents*

/Stig Hjarvard & Mia Lövheim: /Introduction

/Stig Hjarvard: /Three Forms of Mediatized Religion. Changing the Public 
Face of Religion

/Peter Fischer-Nielsen: /The Internet Mediatization of Religion and Church

/Henrik Reintoft Christensen: /Mediatization, Deprivatization, and 
Vicarious Religion. Coverage of Religion and Homosexuality in the 
Scandinavian Mainstream Press

/Marcus Moberg & Sofia Sjö: /The Evangelical Lutheran Church and the 
Media in Post-Secular Finland

/Knut Lundby & Kjersti Thorbjørnsrud: /Mediatization of Controversy. 
When the Security Police Went on Facebook

/Johanna Sumiala: /Ritualising Death in the Media. Symbolic Immortality, 
The Immanent Frame, and School Shootings

/Mia Lövheim: /A Voice of Their Own. Young Muslim Women, Blogs and Religion

/Ehab Galal: /Belonging through Believing. Becoming Muslim through 
Islamic Programming

/Line Nybro Petersen: /Danish Twilight Fandom. Transformative Processes 
of Religion

/Liv Ingeborg Lied: /Religious Change and Popular Culture. With a Nod to 
the Mediatization of Religion Debate

*Further information*

See book at publisher’s website: 
http://nordicom.gu.se/?portal=publ&main=info_publ2.php&ex=357&me=3 
<http://nordicom.gu.se/?portal=publ&main=info_publ2.php&ex=357&me=3>