Pub Date : 2020-12-10DOI: 10.1163/21659214-bja10031
Nakhi Mishol-Shauli
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Pub Date : 2020-12-10DOI: 10.1163/21659214-bja10030
Jasbeer Musthafa Mamalipurath
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Pub Date : 2020-12-10DOI: 10.1163/21659214-bja10015
Marcus Moberg, Sawsan Kheir, Habibe Erdiş Gökce
This article is based on data gathered in the project Young Adults and Religion in a Global Perspective (yarg 2015 ̶ 2019), which explored the values and religious subjectivities of young adult university students in thirteen different countries around the world. In a largely explorative fashion, the article focuses on the only two predominantly Muslim samples included in the project: Turkey and Muslims in Israel. On the basis of quantitative data, the article outlines the significant correlations found between respondents’ degrees of personal religiosity, frequency of religious practice, and levels of internet use for religion-related purposes. On the basis of qualitative data, the article then moves to explore how concerns about the trustworthiness of online content and the continuing influence of offline religious authorities work to shape and inform the online religious engagements of our Turkish and Israeli Muslim young adult respondents.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-10DOI: 10.1163/21659214-bja10027
Kinga Przybysz-Polakowska
This article presents a cad-based analysis of Polish Catholic newspaper discourse regarding bioethical dilemmas. The study corpus consists of materials published by four weekly magazines – Gość Niedzielny, Niedziela, Przewodnik Katolicki, and Tygodnik Powszechny – between 2005 and 2015. The author took into consideration articles that were fully devoted to abortion, in vitro fertilization, or euthanasia. The research methodology was based on critical discourse analysis and delivered both quantitative and qualitative results. The findings suggest that even though all magazines touched on bioethical dilemmas and conjured up similar topics, their discourses were different. It transpired that the key variable was the magazines’ affiliations. Titles directly connected to the Catholic Church (Gość Niedzielny, Niedziela, Przewodnik katolicki) produced different discourses than Tygodnik Powszechny, which has no official bonds with the Catholic Church. Given the structure of the discourses, the author suggests division into two categories: inward-oriented and outward-oriented.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-10DOI: 10.1163/21659214-bja10014
B. McGuire
This paper explores structural similarities between playing a digital game and experiencing grief. The digital game Mandagon evokes a sense of loss through its game environment of grey mountainous landscapes, broken wooden scaffolds, and Tibetan temples and prayer flags in states of disrepair. It elicits feelings of disorientation and dependency as players repeatedly fall from scaffolds but ascend by using lifts or finding air bubble streams underwater. It encompasses terrestrial, corporeal, and cosmic crossings as players move through air, land, and water, as they neither inhabit nor encounter a human body, and they cross various cosmic thresholds through the course of the game. For players struggling with grief, it validates and normalizes feelings of emptiness, loneliness, and vulnerability in the wake of death and loss.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-10DOI: 10.1163/21659214-bja10001
Andrew Mall
In 1992, emi acquired Sparrow Records. At that time, emi was one of the “Big Six” (secular) major record labels; Sparrow was the largest and most successful label in the Christian record industry. As in other sectors of the music and entertainment industries, reactions to corporate consolidations are mixed. This issue is particularly fraught in the Christian industry, in which the relationship between financial and theological priorities was tense long before its incorporation into the secular industry. How did these discourses manifest in public? What significance did they have for fans, artists, and cultural intermediaries? ccm magazine and its sister publications, for decades the primary sources of information about and for the Christian market, provide a unique opportunity to observe and analyze these tensions leading up to these mergers and acquisitions. In this article I consider the role of ccm’s reporting and editorial content as a barometer of broader anxieties over commercial priorities and corporate consolidation.
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Pub Date : 2020-12-10DOI: 10.1163/21659214-bja10002
M. Kennedy
This paper examines hbo’s The Young Pope through a cultural approach and ritual view to communication first developed by James W. Carey (2009). After a discussion of mediatization of society and its impacts on culture, the essay explores the deeper meanings The Young Pope conveys about self-discovery and the power of love through a textual analysis of the mythic structure of the hero’s journey (Campbell, 1949/2008; Kluckhohn, 1959) in order to understand how religious belief systems and media content paired together can offer a particular view of the world to those who ascribe to them. Ultimately, this paper serves as a piece of media criticism that suggests that television series like The Young Pope can operate as “sites of interpretive struggle” (Peterson, 2008, p. 119) for viewers as they draw conclusions about and question the world around them.
本文通过James W. Carey(2009)首先提出的文化方法和仪式观点来研究hbo的《年轻的教皇》。在讨论了社会的媒介化及其对文化的影响之后，本文通过对主人公旅程的神话结构的文本分析，探讨了《年轻的教皇》所传达的关于自我发现和爱的力量的更深层次的含义(Campbell, 1949/2008;Kluckhohn, 1959)，以便了解宗教信仰体系和媒体内容如何配对在一起，可以为那些将其归功于他们的人提供一种特定的世界观。最终，这篇论文作为一篇媒体批评，表明像《年轻的教皇》这样的电视连续剧可以作为观众“解释性斗争的场所”(Peterson, 2008, p. 119)，因为他们对周围的世界得出结论并提出质疑。
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Pub Date : 2020-10-23DOI: 10.1163/21659214-BJA10018
Emma Rifai
Pro-ana is an online community that shares resources that support the progression and maintenance of eating disorders. It simultaneously offers participants anonymity and visibility in virtual space as well as the chance to develop social connections with other like-minded individuals who support, rather than censure, their “deviant” behaviors. This paper attends to the intersection of religion, embodiment, and digital culture in the pro-ana movement by exploring how anas embody religious values through their performances of pro-ana culture. We see this both in terms of the more obvious mobilizations of religious rhetorics common with some of the pro-ana community, as well as in more subtle manifestations of Protestant values embedded in key pro-ana commitments and behaviors. By analyzing the popular pro-ana site “MyPancakeAddiction,” I explore how anas embody this digital culture through performances of a shared value system rooted in commitments to individualism, self-control, and mastery – themes often associated with Protestantism.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-23DOI: 10.1163/21659214-BJA10026
Nicholas T. S. Marshall
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Pub Date : 2020-10-23DOI: 10.1163/21659214-BJA10017
Tim Hutchings, K. Asamoah-Gyadu, Giulia Evolvi, Sam Han
This article encourages researchers of religion, media and culture to develop new, global, comparative conversations about the meaning and purpose of public scholarship. Key terms like “religion”, “media”, “publicness” and “scholarship” can be understood and articulated differently in different social, cultural and geographical locations, and dialogue across our academic contexts is needed to help explore these parallels and divergences. This article shares three reflections from scholars who have lived and worked in west Africa, southern Europe and south-east Asia. Each contributor has been asked to address two questions: How do religious communities engage public audiences? And how can (or should) scholars communicate with the public? The conclusion to the article identifies some of the central themes of their responses: secularity, colonial legacies, globalization, power, vulnerability, and the intended audience of our public interventions.
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