Abstract
General Introduction. Section 1: Religion, spirituality and consumer culture Introduction. Chapter 1: Understanding Glastonbury as a site of consumption (Marion Bowman). Chapter 2: The economies of Charismatic Evangelical worship (Pete Ward). Chapter 3: Mecca cola and Burqinis: Muslim consumption and religious identities (Nabil Echchaibi). Chapter 4: The spirit of living slowly in the LOHAS market-place (Monica M. Emerich). Chapter 5: Burn-a-lujah! DIY spiritualities, Reverend Billy and Burning Man (Lee Gilmore). Chapter 6: Spirituality and the re-branding of religion (Jeremy Carrette and Richard King). Section 2: Media and the transformation of religion Introduction. Chapter 7: Religion, the media and 9/11 (Stewart Hoover). Chapter 8: Why has religion gone public again? Towards a theory of media and religious re-publicization (David Herbert). Chapter 9: The role of media in religious transnationalism (Marie Gillespie). Chapter 10: Religion and authority in a remix Culture: how a late night TV host became an authority on religion (Lynn Schofield Clark). Chapter 11: The angel of Broadway: the transformative dynamics of religion, media, gender and commodification (Diane Winston). Section 3: The sacred senses Introduction. Chapter 12: Scrambling the sacred and the profane (Colleen McDannell). Chapter 13: Material children: making God's presence real through Catholic boys and girls (Robert Orsi). Chapter 14: Religious sensations: media, aesthetics and the study of contemporary religion (Birgit Meyer). Chapter 15: Finding Fabiola: visual piety in religious life (David Morgan). Chapter 16: Popular music, affective space and meaning (Christopher Partridge). Chapter 17: Living relations with visual and material artefacts (Stephen Pattison). Section 4: Religion and the ethics of media and culture Introduction. Chapter 18: Unravelling the myth of the mediated center (Nick Couldry). Chapter 19: Remembering news about violence (Jolyon Mitchell). Chapter 20: Religious literacy and public service broadcasting: introducing a research agenda (Elaine Graham). Chapter 21: Everyday faith in and beyond scandalized religion (Tom Beaudoin). Chapter 22: Public media and the sacred: a critical perspective (Gordon Lynch). Bibliography.
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