Access to excess: media as religion and the new cargo cults.
Recent studies of religion and the media generally assume the secular nature of the latter impacting on the former. Religious relevance is set against a media culture of screens and networks that purportedly shape and reshape the symbols of sacredness. Yet the media itself may also be regarded as co...
| Publicado en: | Culture & Religion Vol. 19; no. 3; pp. 345 - 361 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2018
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