...television producers navigate religious issues while crafting products intended for massive, diverse audiences. Who, or what, is actually speaking to us through “the media,” and how do their backstage decisions...
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Book introductions
On inclusion
by Nancy Levene...religion’s “elementary forms.” I borrow Durkheim’s iconic language, while amending his assumption that there are elementary forms of a generic religion at the root of all cultures. Durkheim identifies an...
Out there: Perspectives on the study of Black metaphysical religion
Crystal ball gazers, dream books, and the occult
here & there
Generic crisis or defining moment?
by Penny EdgellCrisis talk is the currency of the mass (and niche) media, and it can lead to a mentality that is paradoxically anxious (always attuned to the next crisis) and numbed...
Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon
O tedious selfhood, O aftertaste of splinters
by Tracy Fessenden...evangelical preaching’s bastard offspring, offers the promise of entry into a more charismatic life in exchange for the dissipation of spiritual and economic capital: buy, believe, buy and believe more....
here & there
Glenn Beck and the new evangelical ecumenism
by John Schmalzbauer...Beck’s FOX News program, products like An Unlikely Mormon: The Conversion Story of Glenn Beck are nowhere to be found. In “How Mormonism Built Glenn Beck,” Joanna Brooks has explored...
Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon
Every moment an Aha! Moment!
by John Lardas Modern...of individuations. A gateway drug that is all but given away. Yet there is always a debt. For, in her “spirit-filled capacity,” writes Lofton, “Oprah supplies an array of products...
Religious freedom in the United States
Corporation as sect
by Kathryn Lofton...their religion—was not a part of what made Hobby Lobby a for-profit corporation. That was the sale of its scrapbooking products. Yet, it will benefit from that work having been...