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This volume looks at headline-grabbing scandals involving American
religious figures from the 19th century to the present, showing how
the media and society in general reacted to these controversies.
Religious Scandals brings together real-life controversies
involving men and women of faith, from the media frenzy over the
1811 New York blasphemy case of People v. Ruggles that shaped
American law for well over 100 years to the 2008 government raid on
the fundamentalist Mormon Yearning for Zion community in Texas.
Religious Scandals focuses on two types of subjects: religious
figures whose lapses put them at the center of scandals involving
sex, money, or crime; and those who scandalized their fellow
citizens by acting out according to their own religious beliefs.
Together, these stories—some familiar, some little known—offer
a fascinating portrait of American religious culture, as well
insights into the role of the media in religious scandals,
constitutional protections of religious freedom, and the overriding
issue of public curiosity versus individual privacy.
This special issue of the "Journal of Media and Religion" looks at
how religion is framed when it is thrust into the public realm
through mediated coverage of a particular event. The first article
examines how the public debate about teaching evolution was framed
by the press in Tennessee. The next article discusses framing of
news stories about Mormons during the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in
Salt Lake City. The final article applies Silk's unsecular media
hypothesis to coverage of the Jesse Jackson infidelity scandal.
Each of these articles uncovers new issues and insights about the
framing of religion news. The editors hope that they will become
important points of departure for theorization on this important
topic. Future research will benefit from the analyses presented by
these authors.
This special issue presents four articles on the topic of religion
and television. The first article analyzes five of the
highest-rated television dramas from the 2000-2001 season in terms
of "faith-based" media literacy. It strives for a more systematic
and conceptually sound critique that gets beyond the casual
assessments frequently found in the popular press. The next article
discusses The Simpsons and how it reflects a commitment to
satirizing the pietistic and hypocritical elements of American
religious expression, but does not attack the bases of American
religious faiths. The third article looks to what Veggie Tales--a
popular children's video series--presents in terms of race, gender,
and authority. The final article is about The X-Files, a science
fiction program that--on one level--is one of the most
sophisticated treatments of religion in the history of television
drama. Its ability to interweave complex issues regarding
institutional religion and practice is deserving of attention from
researchers.
Discussions and examples of writing news about religion - a type of
journalism rarely taught in the classroom but frequently assigned
on the job - are found in this anthology, suitable for teaching
alone or as a companion to "Reporting News about Religion: An
Introduction for Journalists." Containing over 70 examples
published in American newspapers and magazines, this book discusses
trends in American newspaper ownership and American society that
have affected coverage of religious news, evolution of substance
and style, and the influence of religion on American culture.
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