Routledge Research in Religion, Media and Culture
About the Book Series
This series of Routledge monographs provides both new and established scholars the opportunity to publish original research in Religion, Media and Culture. The series includes a wide range of investigations of media in relation to religious practice and belief in any historical period or geographical domain. Media examined in this series include everyday objects such as statues, dolls, and photographs; visual media such as wood cuts, icons or illuminated manuscripts; and newer media such as radio, film, television, and Internet. Volumes go beyond focusing on how messages are delivered to passive audiences, and contribute to an evolving paradigm of understanding creative audiences for whom media are an integral part of lived religion. Studies draw on a variety of methods for their investigations.
Why Do Christian Churches Build Congregations Online?
1st Edition
By Stefan Gelfgren
October 21, 2025
Why do Christian Churches Build Congregations Online? examines the different ways that Christian churches and denominations perceive and use digital media in their external work. This is explored through three different case studies, with dissimilar approaches to digital media, to understand the ...
Communicating Esther: The Diffusion and Reception of a Biblical Dream
1st Edition
By Elihu Katz, Menahem Blondheim
September 11, 2025
Communicating Esther presents a communications approach to the biblical story of Esther and the ritual that it anchors, the Jewish carnival of Purim. Esther, the second-most written about book of the Bible, is thought to be based on a tale that circulated around 400 BC, and was later transcribed ...
Minority Churches as Media Settlers: Negotiating Deep Mediatization
1st Edition
By Dorota Hall, Marta Kołodziejska, Kerstin Radde-Antweiler
November 28, 2024
How do minority Christian churches adapt to and negotiate with the changes brought about by deep mediatization? How do they use their media to present themselves to their followers and the general public? This book aims to answer these questions by investigating how minority organizations of two ...
Religion, Media and Conversion in Iran: Mediated Christianity in an Islamic Context
1st Edition
By Sara Afshari
October 09, 2024
Religion, Media and Conversion in Iran studies the reception of Farsi Christian television channels by Muslim audiences in Iran: their motivations in viewing the Christian message, their methods of interpretation and negotiation with different media texts and their process of changing or altering ...
Muslims, Minorities, and the Media: Discourses on Islam in the West
1st Edition
By Laurens de Rooij
October 08, 2024
Inspired by overtly negative coverage by the Western mainstream press of Muslims in particular, and minorities in general, this book asks: Why are negative narratives and depictions of Muslims and other minorities so hard to change? News reports about Islam and Muslims commonly relate stories that ...
Christian Influence: The Subcultural Narratives of Evangelical Celebrities on Instagram
1st Edition
By Zachary Sheldon
July 15, 2024
Christian Influence examines how understudied evangelical media celebrities use Instagram to cultivate religious authority and to convey distinctive subcultural narratives about evangelical values and culture today. The book explores the way that discrete kinds of evangelical celebrities—Celebrity ...
Religion in the Age of Digitalization: From New Media to Spiritual Machines
1st Edition
Edited
By Giulia Isetti, Elisa Innerhofer, Harald Pechlaner, Michael de Rachewiltz
May 06, 2022
This book examines the current use of digital media in religious engagement and how new media can influence and alter faith and spirituality. As technologies are introduced and improved, they continue to raise pressing questions about the impact, both positive and negative, that they have on the ...
Religion, Media, and Social Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Kennet Granholm, Marcus Moberg, Sofia Sjö
February 12, 2018
In an era of heightened globalization, macro-level transformations in the general socioeconomic and cultural makeup of modern societies have been studied in great depth. Yet little attention has been paid to the growing influence of media and mass-mediated popular culture on contemporary religious ...
Material Culture and Asian Religions: Text, Image, Object
1st Edition
Edited
By Benjamin Fleming, Richard Mann
February 06, 2018
Traditionally, research on the history of Asian religions has been marked by a bias for literary evidence, privileging canonical texts penned in ‘classical’ languages. Not only has a focus on literary evidence shaped the dominant narratives about the religious histories of Asia, in both scholarship...
Media and New Religions in Japan
1st Edition
By Erica Baffelli
February 05, 2018
The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781135117849, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivative 4.0 license. Japanese "new religions" (shinshūkyō) have used various media forms for training, communicating with ...
Religion and Hip Hop
1st Edition
By Monica R. Miller
November 08, 2013
Religion and Hip Hop brings together the category of religion, Hip Hop cultural modalities and the demographic of youth. Bringing postmodern theory and critical approaches in the study of religion to bear on Hip Hop cultural practices, this book examines how scholars in religious and theological ...
Japanese Religions on the Internet: Innovation, Representation, and Authority
1st Edition
Edited
By Erica Baffelli, Ian Reader, Birgit Staemmler
September 03, 2013
Japanese Religions on the Internet draws attention to how religion is being presented, represented and discussed on the Japanese Internet. Its intention is to contribute to wider discussions about religion and the Internet by providing an important example – based on one of the Internet’s most ...