Increasingly, the religious practices people engage in and the
ways they talk about what is meaningful or sacred take place in the
context of media culture -- in the realm of the so-called
secular.
Focusing on this intersection of the sacred and the secular,
this volume gathers together the work of media experts, religious
historians, sociologists of religion, and authorities on American
studies and art history. Topics range from Islam on the Internet to
the quasi-religious practices of Elvis fans, from the uses of
popular culture by the Salvation Army in its early years to the
uses of interactive media technologies at the Simon Wiesenthal
Center's Beit Hashoah Museum of Tolerance. The issues that the
essays address include the public/private divide, the distinctions
between the sacred and profane, and how to distinguish between the
practices that may be termed "religious" and those that may
not.
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