Religion Across Media

Knut Lundby is Dr.phil. in sociology of religion from the University of Oslo, where he is currently Professor in the Department of Media and Communication. Some of Dr. Lundby’s previous publications include Mediatization: Concept, Changes, Consequences (2009) and Digital Storytelling, Mediatized Stories: Self-representations in New Media (2008). He is also a co-editor of Implications of the Sacred in (Post)Modern Media (2006).

Contents: Birgit Meyer: Material Mediations and Religious Practices of World-Making – Terje Stordalen: Media of Ancient Hebrew Religion – Peter Horsfield: The Ecology of Writing and the Shaping of Early Christianity – Liv Ingeborg Lied: Manuscript Culture and the Myth of Golden Beginnings – Ute Hüsken: Contested Ritual Mediation: Brahmin Temple Priests in South India – Peter Simonson: On Digital Eloquence and Other Rhetorical Pathways to Thinking About Religion and Media – Kim Knott: Religion, Space, and Contemporary Media – David Thurfjell: Mediating Gypsiness Through the Holy Spirit: Pentecostalism and Social Mobilization Among European Roma – Nabil Echchaibi: Taming the West: Mediations of Muslim Modernities – Mia Lövheim: New Media, Religion, and Gender: Young Swedish Female Bloggers – Stewart M. Hoover: Evolving Religion in the Digital Media – Knut Lundby: Media and Transformations of Religion.