The turn of the twenty-first century has seen an ever-increasing profile for religion, contrary to long-standing predictions of its decline. Instead, the West has experienced what some call a 'realignment' of religion where it persists in conjunction with other institutions and structures. Outside the West, religion is an ever more prominent force in social and political movements of both reform and retrenchment. Across these contexts, no issue in religion is of as much concern as fundamentalism - or rather the fundamentalisms within various traditions - which are seen to be fomenting religious, social, ethnic, and political tension and conflict. The contributions to this volume represent the first effort to look at 'fundamentalisms' and 'the media' together and address the resulting relations and interactions from critical perspectives of history, technology, geography, and practice. The result lays important groundwork for scholarship on these new and increasingly important phenomena.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
9781847061331
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95251805
Product Key Features
Book Title
Fundamentalisms and the Media
Author
Assistant Professor Nadia Kaneva, Professor Stewart M. Hoover
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Religious History
Publication Year
2009
Number of Pages
236 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
Additional Product Features
Editor
Professor Stewart M. Hoover, Assistant Professor Nadia Kaneva