PART ONE: ANALYSIS OF MEDIA, RELIGION, AND CULTURE
Introduction - Stewart M Hoover and Knut Lundby
Setting the Agenda
At the Intersection of Media, Culture, and Religion - Lynn
Schofield Clark and Stewart M Hoover
A Bibliographical Essay
Religion and Media in the Construction of Cultures - Robert A
White
Technology and Triadic Theories of Mediation - Clifford G
Christians
PART TWO: MEDIA, RELIGION, AND CULTURE: CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY
The Re-Enchantment of the World - Graham Murdock
Religion and the Transformations of Modernity
Mass Media as a Site of Resacralization of Contemporary Cultures -
Jesús Martín-Barbero
Escape from Time - Gregor Goethals
Ritual Dimensions of Popular Culture
The Dispersed Sacred - Gabriel Bar-Haim
Anomie and the Crisis of Ritual
The Web of Collective Representations - Knut Lundby
PART THREE: MEDIA, RELIGION, AND CULTURE: CHANGING INSTITUTIONS
Changes in Religion in Periods of Media Converegnce - Peter G
Horsfield
Media, Meaning and Method in Religious Studies - Chris Arthur
Televangelism - Bobby C Alexander
Redressive Ritual within a Larger Social Drama
Resistance through Mediated Orality - Keyan G Tomaselli and Arnold
Shepperson
PART FOUR: MEDIA, RELIGION, AND CULTURE: INDIVIDUAL PRACTICE
Psychologized Religion in a Mediated World - Janice A Peck
A Utopian on Main Street - Claire Hoertz Badaracco
Making Sense of Religion in Television - Alf Linderman
Media and the Construction of the Religious Public Sphere - Stewart
M Hoover
Summary Remarks - Knut Lundby and Stewart M Hoover
Mediated Religion
Born 1948. Studies at the University of Oslo 1968-1975. Lower
degree (cand.mag) 1973 with political science, sociology and
studies of Christianity, plus social economics. Higher degree
(mag.art) 1975 in sociology with specialization in mass
communication and sociology of religion. The dissertation was on
"Secularization in the Nordic countries - studied through programs
on church and religion in radio and tv" (in Norwegian).
Practice as journalist during study years. Editor of the church
weekly "Vår Kirke" 1975-80. Research fellow in sociology of
religion 1980-85 at The department of sociology, University of Oslo
with a dissertation for the degree of dr.philos on "The
collectivity of faith. A sociological study of processes of
dissolution in the Norwegian folk church" (1986, in Norwegian).
During these years the Norwegian participant in a comparative
research project on religious changes in the Nordic countries
1930-1980.
Researcher on local media 1985-86 at the Institute of press
research, University of Oslo. Associate professor in mass
communication studies from 1987, into the new Department of media
and communication that same year. Head of department 1990–1995.
Active in the department′s cooperation with the University of
Zimbabwe on media studies and media research 1990-98. Chair,
National Council for Media Studies. Appointed professor of media
studies at the University of Oslo 1998.
Founding director of InterMedia, University of Oslo 1998-2004, an
interdisciplinary research center on design, communication and
learning in digital environments. During these years, chair of the
flexible learning program and chair of the strategic university
program on ‘Competence and Media Convergence’ (CMC), University of
Oslo; chair/board member of the program on Social and Cultural
Preconditions for ICT (SKIKT) and the follow-up program on
‘Communication, ICT, Media’ (KIM) at the Research Council of Norway
as well as member of the ICT Forum of the Research Council.
Research leave 2004-2006. Guest researcher at UC Berkeley,
University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Edinburgh,
University of Stirling, Gregorian University in Rome and University
of Salzburg. Former guest research periods also at London School of
Economics & Political Science and at the University of
Leicester.
Member of the International Council, International Association for
Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) 1992-2000.Member of the
research program on Changing Media – Changing Europe by the
European Science Foundation 1999-2004. Participant in the
international research community on Media, Religion, and Culture
since its inception in 1993.
Since July 2006 back at the Department of Media and Communication,
University of Oslo as Professor of Media Studies. Since 2009 Head
of Research at the department.
I directed the international research project on MEDIATIZED
STORIES. Mediation perspectives on digital storytelling among youth
funded by the Research Council of Norway (2006-2011).
I was the Norwegian coordinator of the NordForsk research network
on Mediatization of religion and culture (2006-2010) and
participate in the continued Nordic Network on Media and Religion.
I coordinate the research group on Media and Religion in the
research network on Religion in Pluralist Societies (PluRel) at the
University of Oslo.
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