Media, Religion and Gender (eBook, ePUB)

Key Issues and New Challenges
Redaktion: Lövheim, Mia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Media, Religion and Gender presents a selection of eminent current scholarship that explores the role gender plays when religion, media use and values in contemporary society interact. The book:

• surveys the development of research on media, religion and culture through the lens of key theoretical and methodological issues and debates within gender studies.
• includes case studies drawn from a variety of countries and contexts to illustrate the range of issues, theoretical perspectives and empirical material involved in current work
• outlines new areas and reflects on challenges for the future.

Students of media, religion and gender at advanced level will find this a valuable resource, as will scholars and researchers working in this important and growing field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134074907
• Artikelnr.: 39263299

Autorenporträt

Mia Lövheim is a professor in Sociology of Religion based in the Faculty of Theology at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Gender - a Blind Spot in Media, Religion and Culture? Mia
Lövheim 2. Media and Religion through the Lens of Feminist and Gender
Theory Mia Lövheim 3. Revealing the Feminist Orientation in the
Methodologies of the Media, Religion, and Culture Field Lynn Schofield
Clark and Grace Chiou 4. Material Witnesses: Women and the Mediation of
Christianity Pamela E. Klassen and Kathryn Lofton 5. Occupying Pews,
Missing in News: Women, Religion and Journalism Joyce Smith 6. Danish
Female Fans Negotiating Romance and Spirituality in The Twilight Saga Line
Nybro Petersen 7. Lwa Like Me: Gender, Sexuality and Vodou Online
Alexandra Boutros 8. Infertility, Blessings, and Head Coverings: Mediated
Practices of Jewish Repentance Michele Rosenthal 9. Claiming Religious
Authority: Muslim Women and New Media Anna Piela 10. Meanings and
Masculinities Curtis Coats and Stewart Hoover 11. "Saving Grace":
Television with "Something More" Diane Winston 12. Digital Storytelling:
Empowering Feminist and Womanist Faith Formation with Young Women Mary Hess
13. Media, Religion and Gender: Key Issues and Future Challenges Mia
Lövheim