Analysis: God in the Details: American Religion in Popular Culture

RELS 1251.1 ARTICLE ANALYSIS REPORT FORM Fall 2012

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BACKGROUND

Author:

Daniel Veidlinger, who comes from American, has a PHD of the University of Chicago majored in Media Theory and Asian Languages and Culture.

Source: Mazur, E. & McCarthy, K. (2011). God in the details: American religion in popular culture. London & New Yok: Rout ledge

Audience: People who are interest in religions in contemp society especially in American society.

Central claim or thesis: The behaviour and ideas of religions are influenced by internet especially social web.

Purpose: In the contemp society, the most popular and effectiveness way to contact is using the internet. Therefore, internet meets three main functions of religions--interpretation,interaction and integration. According to this chapter, people can acquire a full-scale view of the relation between religions and the new medium.

Context:

This book is published in 2011.

Author that draw upon: Boase, Jeffrey, Lee Rainie, and Barry Wellman; Brenda Brasher; Lynn Clark; Daniel Dennett and Douglas Hofstadter, eds; Emile Durkheim; Ashley Harrington; Peter Hershock; John Hick; Mun-Cho Kim; Ray Kurzweil; Alf Linderman and Mia lovheim; Marshall McLuhan;Sherry Turkle; Victor Turner.

For this second edition, there are several new context that is related to the current situation and events, such as the migration of black male expression from churches to athletic stadiums, new configurations of the sacred and the commercial, and post 9/11 spirituality and religious redemption through an analysis of vampire drama,

METHOD & EVIDENCE

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