Religion Media and Social Change

<p>In an era of heightened globalization macro-level transformations in the general socioeconomic and cultural makeup of modern societies have been studied in great depth. Yet little attention has been paid to the growing influence of media and mass-mediated popular culture on contemporary religious sensibilities life and practice. <i>Religion Media and Social Change </i>explores the correlation between the study of religion media and popular culture and broader sociological theorizing on religious change. Contributions devote serious attention to broadly-defined media including technologies institutions and social and cultural environments as well as mass-mediated popular culture such as film music television and computer games. This interdisciplinary collection addresses important theoretical and methodological questions by connecting the study of media and popular culture to current perspectives approaches and discussions in the broader sociological study of religion.</p>