Download e-book for iPad: When Religion Meets New Media (Media, Religion and Culture) by Heidi Campbell

By Heidi Campbell

ISBN-10: 0415349567

ISBN-13: 9780415349567

ISBN-10: 0415349575

ISBN-13: 9780415349574

This full of life e-book specializes in how diverse Jewish, Muslim, and Christian groups interact with new media. instead of easily reject or settle for new media, non secular groups negotiate advanced relationships with those applied sciences in mild in their historical past and ideology. Heidi Campbell indicates a mode for learning those tactics she calls the "religious-social shaping of know-how" and scholars are requested to contemplate 4 key components: non secular culture and historical past; modern group values and priorities; negotiation and innovating expertise in gentle of the group; communal discourses utilized to justify use.





A wealth of examples resembling the Christian e-vangelism flow, glossy Islamic discourses approximately pcs and the increase of the Jewish kosher mobile phone, display the dominant techniques which emerge for spiritual media clients, in addition to the original motivations that advisor particular teams.



 

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