Media and religion

Authors

Paul A. Soukup, Santa Clara UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2002

Publisher

Centre for the Study of Communication and culture

Abstract

This survey will examine three broad strands of communication research on media and religion. First, it will review some emerging frameworks for studying media and religion and see how current scholars situate the topic. Second, it will look at how people have studied the relation of different media to religion, focusing on journalism (especially the coverage of religion), the entertainment media (both the content and the critique), and the information media (primarily the Internet). Finally, this survey will examine the Christian reflection on media, occurring in what some term Communication Theology (Plude 2001: 3).

Comments

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Recommended Citation

Soukup, Paul A. (2002). Media and religion. Communication Research Trends, 21(2), 3-37.