Religion Vs Television

Author : Jay Newman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313024227
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion vs. Television written by Jay Newman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1996-08-20 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of competition between religion and television has, if only indirectly, received considerable attention, particularly from religionists disturbed by the threat posed by television programming to traditional religious beliefs, values, and attitudes. This detailed study considers the competing cultural forces of television and religion from a wider and more theoretical perspective. Newman examines the major forms of competition and the various motives and strategies of the people and groups involved. His philosophical approach allows us to see that the most important aspect of competition between television and religion is their rivalry as cultural forces. In this rivalry, religion continues to have a profound influence on the shaping of television, just as it has always had on all newly developing forms of culture.

Author : William F. Fore
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780806622682
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Television and Religion written by William F. Fore and published by Augsburg Fortress Pub. This book was released on 1987 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John P. Ferré
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Channels of Belief written by John P. Ferré and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1990 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Suman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313025223
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Prime Time Television written by Michael Suman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-10-28 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is religion portrayed on prime time entertainment television and what effect does this have on our society? This book brings together the opinions of all the important factions involved in this important public policy debate, including religious figures (Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and Freethinkers—liberal and conservative), academics, media critics and journalists, and representatives of the entertainment industry. The debate provides contrasting views on how much and what type of religion should be on entertainment television and what relationship this has with the health of our society. Many contributors also offer strategies for how to reform the present situation. This is an important work that delineates the debate for the layperson as well as researchers, scholars, and policymakers.

Author : Carl Jeffrey Wright
Publisher : Urban Ministries Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780940955905
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God's Vision Or Television written by Carl Jeffrey Wright and published by Urban Ministries Inc. This book was released on 2004 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you spend more time watching television than you do reading your bible? How much of your news and information do you get by watching television as opposed to reading God's inspired Word- the Bible- is still the source of the truth in the world today. In this thought-provoking book, the author examines how television affects what we believe and what we can do about it.

Author : Kutter Callaway
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1493405853
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Watching TV Religiously (Engaging Culture) written by Kutter Callaway and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helping Christians Understand the Power and Meaning of TV Since its inception, television has captured the cultural imagination. Outside of work and sleep, it is now the primary preoccupation of most Americans. Individuals consume upward of five hours of TV daily, even more when taking into account viewing done online and on mobile devices. TV is so ingrained in the fabric of everyday life that it can't help but function as one of the primary means through which we make sense of our lives and the world. This book shows that television--as a technology, a narrative art form, a commodity, and a portal for our ritual lives--confronts viewers theologically. Whether its content is explicitly spiritual or not, TV routinely invites (and sometimes demands) theological reflection. This book articulates something of the presence and activity of God in the golden age of TV and forges an appropriate response to an ever-changing cultural form. It constructs a theology of television that allows for both celebration and critique, helping Christians more fully understand and appreciate the power and meaning of TV. A supplemental website provides additional resources, conversations, and close readings of TV programs.

Author : L. Benjamin Rolsky
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231550421
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left written by L. Benjamin Rolsky and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades now, Americans have believed that their country is deeply divided by “culture wars” waged between religious conservatives and secular liberals. In most instances, Protestant conservatives have been cast as the instigators of such warfare, while religious liberals have been largely ignored. In this book, L. Benjamin Rolsky examines the ways in which American liberalism has helped shape cultural conflict since the 1970s through the story of how television writer and producer Norman Lear galvanized the religious left into action. The creator of comedies such as All in the Family and Maude, Lear was spurred to found the liberal advocacy group People for the American Way in response to the rise of the religious right. Rolsky offers engaged readings of Lear’s iconic sitcoms and published writings, considering them as an expression of what he calls the spiritual politics of the religious left. He shows how prime-time television became a focus of political dispute and demonstrates how Lear’s emergence as an interfaith activist catalyzed ecumenical Protestants, Catholics, and Jews who were determined to push back against conservatism’s ascent. Rolsky concludes that Lear’s political involvement exemplified religious liberals’ commitment to engaging politics on explicitly moral grounds in defense of what they saw as the public interest. An interdisciplinary analysis of the definitive cultural clashes of our fractious times, The Rise and Fall of the Religious Left foregrounds the foundational roles played by popular culture, television, and media in America’s religious history.

Author : Jerry A. Coyne
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143108263
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Faith Versus Fact written by Jerry A. Coyne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A superbly argued book.” —Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion The New York Times bestselling author of Why Evolution is True explains why any attempt to make religion compatible with science is doomed to fail In this provocative book, evolutionary biologist Jerry A. Coyne lays out in clear, dispassionate detail why the toolkit of science, based on reason and empirical study, is reliable, while that of religion—including faith, dogma, and revelation—leads to incorrect, untestable, or conflicting conclusions. Coyne is responding to a national climate in which more than half of Americans don’t believe in evolution, members of Congress deny global warming, and long-conquered childhood diseases are reappearing because of religious objections to inoculation, and he warns that religious prejudices in politics, education, medicine, and social policy are on the rise. Extending the bestselling works of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens, he demolishes the claims of religion to provide verifiable “truth” by subjecting those claims to the same tests we use to establish truth in science. Coyne irrefutably demonstrates the grave harm—to individuals and to our planet—in mistaking faith for fact in making the most important decisions about the world we live in. Praise for Faith Versus Fact: “A profound and lovely book . . . showing that the honest doubts of science are better . . . than the false certainties of religion.” —Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith

Author : Peter G. Horsfield
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Television written by Peter G. Horsfield and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1984 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Abelman
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0893916439
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Television written by Robert Abelman and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume addresses the various and highly topical controversies surrounding religious television by examining its history, structure, content, viewship, and social impact. It represents a compilation of original essays written by the world's leading scholars, regulators, authorities, and watchdogs of religious television. Each controversy is addressed from a wide range of perspectives. The result is a most interesting exchange of ideas and ideologies: the presentation of empirical data, theology and learned opinion, and an assortment of insightful conclusions.