Mediating Catholicism

This book focuses on the ethnographic study of Catholicism and media. Chapters demonstrate how people engage with the Catholic media-scape and analyse the social cultural and political processes that underlie Catholic media and mediatization.<br/> <br/> Case studies examine Catholic practices in North America Western and Eastern Europe Latin America South-East Asia and Africa providing a truly comparative de-centred representation of global Catholicism.<br/> <br/> Illustrating the vibrancy and heterogeneity of Catholicism world-wide the book also examines how media work to sustain larger global Catholic imaginaries.<br/>