Mediating Catholicism: Religion and Media in Global Catholic Imaginaries
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This book focuses on the ethnographic study of Catholicism and media. Chapters demonstrate how people engage with the Catholic media-scape, and analyse the social, cultural, and political processes that underlie Catholic media and mediatization.
Case studies examine Catholic practices in North America, Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America, South-East Asia, and Africa, providing a truly comparative, de-centred representation of global Catholicism.
Illustrating the vibrancy and heterogeneity of Catholicism world-wide, the book also examines how media work to sustain larger global Catholic imaginaries.
Examines in ethnographic detail how Catholics around the world consume, produce, and engage with media technologies in their religious lives.
Emphasizes the concept of “mediatization” as a critical term for understanding contemporary Catholic practice
Fills a gap in the research for rich, ethnographic descriptions of Catholic media practices
Uses global case studies from North America, Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America, South-East Asia, and Africa
Provides a truly comparative, de-centred representation of global Catholicism
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List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Mediating Catholicism, Marc Loustau (College of the Holy Cross, USA), Kristin Norget (McGill University, Canada), and Eric Hoenes del Pinal (University of North Carolina, USA)
1. Mediatizing Holy Week: Guatemalan Catholic Experiments with Radio and Facebook, Eric Hoenes del Pinal (University of North Carolina, USA)
2. NFP Online: The Mutable Religious Space of Social Media, Katherine Dugan (Springfield College, USA)
3. The Stakes of Catholic Media Practices in Chad, Ludovic Lado (Center for Research and Action for Peace, Institute of Human Dignity and Rights, Ivory Coast)
4. 'This station only runs on Love': Post-Bureaucratic Evangelism in a Transylvanian Catholic Media Organization, Marc Loustau (College of the Holy Cross, USA)
5. A Touch of Love: On Words, Things, and the Global Aspirations of U.S. Catholics, Hillary Kaell (Concordia University, Canada)
6. Religious Celebrities and the Expansion of Suffering in the Philippines and Timor-Leste, Julius Bautista (Kyoto University, Japan)
7. Exorcism in the Media, Thomas J. Csordas (University of California, San Diego, USA)
8. Abundance and the Late Capitalist Imagination: Catholicism and Fashion at the Metropolitan Museum, Elayne Oliphant (New York University, USA)
9. Miraculous Sovereignties: Mediation and the Señor de los, Kristin Norget (McGill University, Canada)
10. The Mediatization of Catholicism: Some Challenges and Remarks, Luis Mauro Sa Martino (Faculdade Cásper Líbero, Brazil)
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Index
This is a really exhilarating collection that demonstrates not only the complex relationship between Catholicism and Media, but also the extent to which Catholicism is a religion of Media. It brings together top rate scholarship covering regional and national Catholicisms, as well as a range of different media: print, radio, television, and social media. It also extends the notion of media to explore themes such as the word 'love' as a form of Catholic medium, and ritual as media. It is ground-breaking and fascinating. A major contribution to contemporary religious scholarship.
This book, which comes at a very exciting time when faith communities are at various levels of discovering, exploring, and maximizing the media at their disposal, would be a great addition to any library as an indispensable resource when it comes to the field of religion and society, especially under the aspect of communication. It certainly helps that the book is written in a way that is accessible and engaging not only for scholars and academics but also for communicators and pastors for whom they would surely be of much interest and help.
The editors are equipped to develop an approach to media that overcomes the limitations of the implicitly
positivistic approach that informs most of the work on how media transform religious practice or how religions have shaped various media fields.
The volume...reaches beyond scholarship on Catholicism, reflecting the authors' goal of inspiring others to develop “theories of mediation and mediatization as they relate to religion” at large.... The book is thus required reading for any scholar of social media, new forms of religious identities,
secularization, and media-based faith socialities.
- Title: Mediating Catholicism: Religion and Media in Global Catholic Imaginaries
- Authors: Eric Hoenes del Pinal, Marc Roscoe Loustau, Kristin Norget
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781350228191, 9781350228207, 1350228206, 1350228192
- Resource ID: LLS:9781350228191
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-09T06:35:55Z
Eric Hoenes del Pinal is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA.
Marc Loustau is Visiting Lecturer in Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross, USA.
Kristin Norget is Associate Professor of Anthropology at McGill University, Canada.