Mediating Faiths : Religion and Socio-Cultural Change in the Twenty-First Century.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Permission and Acknowledgements -- 1 Editors8217; Introduction: Religion as Living Culture -- Part I New Media Religion -- 2 Transformations in British Religious Broadcasting -- 3 Alternative Islamic Voices on the Internet -- 4 Mediatizing Faith: Digital Storytelling on the Unspoken -- 5 Haredim and the Internet: A Hate8211;Love Affair -- Part II Consumption and Lifestyle -- 6 Fixing the Self: Alternative Therapies and Spiritual Logics -- 7 Religious Media Events and Branding Religion -- 8 The After-Life of Born-Again Beauty Queens -- 9 How Congregations are Becoming Customers -- 10 US Evangelicals and the Redefinition of Worship Music -- Part III Youth -- 11 The Making of Muslim Youth Cultures in Europe -- 12 Religious Experience of a Young Megachurch Congregation in Singapore -- Part IV Politics and Community -- 13 Recent Literary Representations of British Muslims -- 14 Destiny, the Exclusive Brethren and Mediated Politics in New Zealand -- 15 Social Security with a Christian Twist in John Howard8217;s Australia -- 16 Mediated Spaces of Religious Community in Manila, Philippines -- Index.

Religion is living culture. It continues to play a role in shaping political ideologies, institutional practices, communities of interest, ways of life and social identities. Mediating Faiths brings together scholars working across a range of fields, including cultural studies, media, sociology, anthropology, cultural theory and religious studies, in order to facilitate greater understanding of recent transformations. Contributors illustrate how religion continues to be responsive to the very latest social and cultural developments in the environments in which it exists. They raise fundament.

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