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In an era of heightened globalization, macro-level transformations
in the general socioeconomic and cultural makeup of modern
societies have been studied in great depth. Yet little attention
has been paid to the growing influence of media and mass-mediated
popular culture on contemporary religious sensibilities, life, and
practice. Religion, Media, and Social Change explores the
correlation between the study of religion, media, and popular
culture and broader sociological theorizing on religious change.
Contributions devote serious attention to broadly-defined media
including technologies, institutions, and social and cultural
environments, as well as mass-mediated popular culture such as
film, music, television, and computer games. This interdisciplinary
collection addresses important theoretical and methodological
questions by connecting the study of media and popular culture to
current perspectives, approaches, and discussions in the broader
sociological study of religion.
It has become increasingly clear that an adequate understanding of
the contemporary processes of social, cultural, and religious
change is contingent on an appreciation of the growing impact of
social media. Utilising results of an unprecedented global study,
this volume explores the ways in which young adults in seven
different countries engage with digital and social media in
religiously significant ways. Presenting and analysing the findings
of the global research project Young Adults and Religion in a
Global Perspective (YARG), an international panel of contributors
shed new light on the impact of social media and its associated
technologies on young people's religiosities, worldviews, and
values. Case studies from China, Finland, Ghana, Israel, Peru,
Poland, and Turkey are used to demonstrate how these developments
are progressing, not just in the West, but across the world. This
book is unique in that it presents a truly macroscopic perspective
on trends in religion amongst young adults. As such, it will be of
great interest to scholars working in religious studies, digital
media, communication studies, sociology, cultural studies, theology
and youth studies.
In an era of heightened globalization, macro-level
transformations in the general socioeconomic and cultural makeup of
modern societies have been studied in great depth. Yet little
attention has been paid to the growing influence of media and
mass-mediated popular culture on contemporary religious
sensibilities, life, and practice. "Religion, Media, and Social
Change "explores the correlation between the study of religion,
media, and popular culture and broader sociological theorizing on
religious change. Contributions devote serious attention to
broadly-defined media including technologies, institutions, and
social and cultural environments, as well as mass-mediated popular
culture such as film, music, television, and computer games. This
interdisciplinary collection addresses important theoretical and
methodological questions by connecting the study of media and
popular culture to current perspectives, approaches, and
discussions in the broader sociological study of religion.
This open access volume features a data-rich portrait of what young
adults think about the world. It collects the views of students in
higher education from various cultural regions, religious
traditions, linguistic groups, and political systems. This will
help readers better understand a generation that will soon rise to
power and influence. The analysis focuses on 12 countries. These
include Canada, China, Finland, Ghana, India, Israel, Peru, Poland,
Russia, Sweden, Turkey, and the USA. It employs a mixed-methods
approach, invested in the study of an individual's views and values
using state-of-the-art methodology, including the innovative Faith
Q-sort. This instrument is new to the field and developed for
assessing the entanglement of subjective views and personal
beliefs. The study also incorporates a comprehensive values survey
as well as other survey tools that look into people's social
capital, media use, social values alignment, and subjective
well-being. Each chapter is co-authored by an international team of
scholars with research interest in the particular topic. The
rationale for this principle is the need to engage individuals from
different cultural backgrounds, scholarly disciplines, and
methodological and substantive competences. In the end, this
innovative approach presents an informed, empirically grounded
analysis of the values and worldviews of the future generation. It
sheds an important light on how changes in the religious landscape
are intertwined with broad and diffuse processes of socio-economic
and global cultural change.
This open access volume features a data-rich portrait of what young
adults think about the world. It collects the views of students in
higher education from various cultural regions, religious
traditions, linguistic groups, and political systems. This will
help readers better understand a generation that will soon rise to
power and influence. The analysis focuses on 12 countries. These
include Canada, China, Finland, Ghana, India, Israel, Peru, Poland,
Russia, Sweden, Turkey, and the USA. It employs a mixed-methods
approach, invested in the study of an individual's views and values
using state-of-the-art methodology, including the innovative Faith
Q-sort. This instrument is new to the field and developed for
assessing the entanglement of subjective views and personal
beliefs. The study also incorporates a comprehensive values survey
as well as other survey tools that look into people's social
capital, media use, social values alignment, and subjective
well-being. Each chapter is co-authored by an international team of
scholars with research interest in the particular topic. The
rationale for this principle is the need to engage individuals from
different cultural backgrounds, scholarly disciplines, and
methodological and substantive competences. In the end, this
innovative approach presents an informed, empirically grounded
analysis of the values and worldviews of the future generation. It
sheds an important light on how changes in the religious landscape
are intertwined with broad and diffuse processes of socio-economic
and global cultural change.
It has become increasingly clear that an adequate understanding of
the contemporary processes of social, cultural, and religious
change is contingent on an appreciation of the growing impact of
social media. Utilising results of an unprecedented global study,
this volume explores the ways in which young adults in seven
different countries engage with digital and social media in
religiously significant ways. Presenting and analysing the findings
of the global research project Young Adults and Religion in a
Global Perspective (YARG), an international panel of contributors
shed new light on the impact of social media and its associated
technologies on young people's religiosities, worldviews, and
values. Case studies from China, Finland, Ghana, Israel, Peru,
Poland, and Turkey are used to demonstrate how these developments
are progressing, not just in the West, but across the world. This
book is unique in that it presents a truly macroscopic perspective
on trends in religion amongst young adults. As such, it will be of
great interest to scholars working in religious studies, digital
media, communication studies, sociology, cultural studies, theology
and youth studies.
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