Religion in the news : faith and journalism in American public discourse /
Stewart M Hoover offers a cultural-historical analysis of the rise of religious stories in the media - the Islamic Revolution in Iran, televangelism and its scandals, the political agenda of the Evangelical New Right, to name but a few. The author's penetrating analysis brings into sharp focus:...
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Sage Publications,
©1998.
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Table of Contents:
- Religion in the news
- Approaches to understanding
- Discourses of contemporary religion
- The source of the problem?
- Looking at religion
- Reading and watching religion
- The audience for religion
- Religion and the media in conflict
- Religion and broadcasting
- The challenge of standards
- To be the discourse, or merely to cover it.