Media, Spiritualities and Social Change.
Title:
Media, Spiritualities and Social Change.
Author:
Hoover, Stewart M.
ISBN:
9781441189134
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (273 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Media, Spiritualities and Social Change -- Part One: Identity: At the Root of Social Change -- 1. Competing Narratives of Religious and Cultural Identity in Cornwall -- 2. Mediated Science, Genetics and Identity in the U.S. African Diaspora -- 3. DIY Spiritual Community: From Individualism to Participatory Culture -- Part Two: Integration: Reconciling Self and Other -- 4. Creating Deeper Connections: Exploring Values and the Potential for Transformation through New Media -- 5. Communication, Reconciliation and the Human Spirit: Reconnecting Without and Within Through Five Media Forms -- 6. Mideast Youth: Can Social Media = Social Change? -- Part Three: Charity: Reconstruction of the Social Gospel -- 7. The Politics of 'Empowerment' in Oprah Winfrey's Global Philanthropy -- 8. Branding Compassion: How Corporate America is Co-Opting Social Causes and Redefining Service -- Part Four: Capitalism: Spiritualizing the Marketplace -- 9. Nutrition and Branded Wellness in the Medicated Public Square -- 10. Spiritual Tourism - Promise and Problems: The Case of Sedona, Arizona -- 11. [Re]Vision: The Role of Graphic Design[ers] . . . -- Part Five: Community: Voicing Difference -- 12. Media, Religion and Citizenship in the Mosque-Building Debates in Europe -- 13. The Blogosphere of Resistance: Anonymous Blogging as a Safe Haven for Challenging Religious Authority and Creating Dissident Communities -- Part Six: Nature: Restructuring Human-Nature Relationships -- 14. Media Representation and the Cultivation of Social Consciousness: Comparing the Discourses of Climate Change and Animal Rights -- 15. Environmental Crisis and Religious Rhetoric in Is God Green? -- Part Seven: Nations: Branding Space -- 16. Spirituality in Flight: Making Meaning around State-Sector Television Commercials.
17. Media, Citizens and Space Exploration: Conquest and Exploitation or Discovery and Understanding? -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
This book maps emergent global practices and discourses of mediated, spiritualized social change. Bringing together scholarly perspectives from around the world and across disciplines, the authors explore how 'spiritualities' express themselves through and with media - from television to Internet, from fashion to art murals - as socially transforming voices and practices. The very fluidity of the meaning of spirituality is part of its appeal: it can service as easily as a reference to a perceived common essence of humanness as it can work to legitimate market-based practices. While the involvement of spiritual life with social transformation is certainly not peculiar to contemporary societies, what has changed is the upsurge of media in these matters. In the specific case of religion, globalization has unleashed a cascade of unexpected and unpredictable implications, many of which are consequences of the media. The authors here show ways in which media and spiritualities are engaged around the world in efforts to restructure paradigms, institutions, beliefs and practices to affect social change.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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