Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: Introduction: The Cultural Construction of Religion in the Media Age Stewart M. Hoover I 1. Overview: The "Protestantization" of Research into Media, Religion, and Culture Lynn Schofield Clark 7 PART I. Mediation in Popular Religious Practice 35 2. Protestant Visual Practice and American Mass Culture David Morgan 37 3. Believing in Elvis: Popular Piety in Material Culture Erika Doss 63 PART 2. The Mediation of Religion in the Public Sphere 87 4. Public Art as Sacred Space: Asian American Community Murals in Los Angeles J. Shawn Landres 91 5. All the World's a Stage: The Performed Religion of the Salvation Army, 1880-1920 Diane Winston 113 6. "Turn It Off!": TV Criticism in the Christian Century Magazine, 1946-1960 Michele Rosenthal 138 PART 3. Religion Made Public Through the Media 163 7. Between Objectivity and Moral Vision: Catholics and Evangelicals in American Journalism John Schmalzbauer 165 8. The Southern Baptist Controversy and the Press Mark G. Borchert 188 PART 4. Implicit Religion and Mediated Public Ritual 201 9. Scapegoating and Deterrence: Criminal Justice Rituals in American Civil Religion Carolyn Marvin 203 10. Ritual and the Media Ronald L. Grimes 219 PART 5. Explicit and Public Expression in New Media Contexts 235 11. Allah On-Line: The Practice of Global Islam in the Information Age Bruce B. Lawrence 237 12. Internet Ritual: A Case Study of the Construction of Computer-Mediated Neopagan Religious Meaning Jan Ferback 254 13. Religious Sensibilities in the Age of the Internet: Freethought Culture and the Historical Context of Communication Media David Nash 276 PART 6. Specific Religions and Specific Media in National and Ethnic Contexts 291 14. Religious Television in Sweden: Toward a More Balanced View of Its Reception Alf Linderman 295 15. Religious to Ethnic-National Identities: Political Mobilization ThroughJewish Images in the United States and Britain, I88I-I939 Michael Berkowitz 305 16. Between American Televangelism and African Anglicanism Knut Lundby 328 17. "Speaking in Tongues, Writing in Vision": Orality and Literacy in Televangelistic Communications Keyan G. Tomaselli and Arnold Shepperson 345.