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Peter Horsfield is Professor of Communication at RMIT University, Australia. From 1987-1996, he was Dean of the Uniting Church Theological Hall and Lecturer in Applied Theology in the United Faculty of Theology in Melbourne, Australia. His early study, Religious Television: The American Experience (2004) was influential in assessing the impact of the emerging phenomenon of televangelism in the U.S. From 1997-2005 he was a member of the International Study Commission on Media Religion and Culture. He has researched and published extensively in the area of the interaction of media and religion

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Contributors -- Media, Culture and Religion: An Introduction -- Part I The Cultural Perspective -- Introduction -- 1. Reconceptualizing Religion and Media in a Post-National, Postmodern World: A Critical Historical Introduction -- 2. Theology, Church and Media - Contours in a Changing Cultural Terrain -- 3. Because God is Near, God is Real: Symbolic Realism in US Latino Popular Catholicism and Medieval Christianity -- 4. Notes on Belief and Social Circulation (Science Fiction Narratives) -- Part II Mediated Christianity -- Introduction -- 5. Pentecostal Media Images and Religious Globalization in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 6. Identities, Religion and Melodrama: A View from the Cultural Dimension of the Latin American Teleno vela -- 7. Visual Media and Ethiopian Protestantism -- 8. From Morality Tales to Horror Movies: Towards an Understanding of the Popularity of West African Video Film -- 9. Religion and Meaning in the Digital Age: Field Research on Internet/Web Religion -- Part III Media Culture and Christian Institutions -- Introduction -- 10. Making Religious Media: Notes from the Field -- 11. Rescripting Religious Education in Media Culture -- 12. Changes in the Thai Catholic Way of Life -- 13. The US Catholic Church Sexual Abuse Scandal: A Media/Religion Case Study -- Part IV An Overview -- 14. Major Issues in the Study of Media, Religion and Culture -- Bibliography -- Index.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. Rethinking Authority in an Era of Media and Religious Change -- Chapter 1. Religious Authority in the Media Age -- Chapter 2. The Media and Religious Authority from Ancient to Modern -- Chapter 3. Media and (Vicarious) Religion Two Levels of Religious Authority -- Chapter 4. Religious Authority and Social Media Branding in a Culture of Religious Celebrification -- Part II. Case Studies -- Chapter 5. Satellite Publics Moral Identity and New Media in Moroccan Islam -- Chapter 6. Examining All the Realms of Nature Evidence, Insight, and the Quest for Knowledge in Modern Thailand -- Chapter 7. Cyber Memorial Zones and Shamanic Inheritance in Korea -- Chapter 8. Baadaass Mamas Race, Sex, and Afro-Religiosity in Sankofa -- Chapter 9. Techno-Vodou Transnational Flows in the Spiritual Marketplace -- Chapter 10. Evangelical Media for Youth and Religious Authority in Brazil -- Chapter 11. The Authority of the Image Sex, Religion, and the Text/Image Conflict in Craig Thompson's Blankets -- Afterword. The Media and Religious Authority -- Contributors -- Index