[Commlist] new book: Handbook on Religion & Communication

*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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