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.
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 ...
Religion and Commodification: 'Merchandizing' Diasporic Hinduism
1st Edition
By Vineeta Sinha
July 27, 2012
Sustaining a Hindu universe at an everyday life level requires an extraordinary range of religious specialists and ritual paraphernalia. At the level of practice, devotional Hinduism is an embodied religion and grounded in a materiality, that makes the presence of specific physical objects (which ...