Religion and Reality TV provides a framework for understanding the intersection of celebrity, media attention, and American beliefs and values. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of religion and media studies, communication, American studies, and popular culture.
Religion and Reality TV provides a framework for understanding the intersection of celebrity, media attention, and American beliefs and values. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of religion and media studies, communication, American studies, and popular culture.
Mara Einstein has worked as an executive at NBC, MTV Networks, and at major advertising agencies. She is Professor of Media Studies at Queens College, CUNY, USA and Director of the Masters program in Media and Social Justice. Katherine Madden teaches media studies at Jesuit High School in Sacramento, California, USA. Diane Winston holds the Knight Chair in Media and Religion at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, USA.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part I: Maintenance of the self 1. Flaunting Christian patriarchy in the 21st century: Todd Chrisley's straight guy with the queer eye Diane Winston 2. Making over body and soul: gender, selfhood, and parables of spiritual neoliberalism on Makeover TV Brenda R. Weber 3. Black female sexual agency and racialized holy sex in black Christian reality TV shows Monique Moultrie Part II: The performance of authenticity 4. "This is just an incredible God thing": monetized domesticity in bottom-up media Katherine Madden 5. "The renovation starts now!": rite-of-passage reality television Erica Hurwitz Andrus 6. When the most popular format reaches the most atypical country: reality TV and religion in Israel Yoel Cohen and Amir Hetsroni 7. All-American cancellation: spectacle and neoliberal performativity in All-American Muslim Melinda Q. Brennan Part III: Niche markets 8. Sister Wives: the Protestantization of Mormon polygamy Myev Rees 9. Paranormal reality television: audience engagement with mediums and spirit communication Annette Hill 10. Conjuring spirits in a neoliberal era: ghost reality television, Third Wave spiritual warfare, and haunting pasts Sean McCloud 11. Amish reality and reality TV "Amishness": agonism in the cultural marketplace Stewart M. Hoover Part IV: Commodification of the sacred 12. Praying for reality: the invisible hand in Downey and Burnett's Answered Prayers Sharon Lauricella 13. "The search for a young Imam begins now": Imam Muda and civilizational Islam in Malaysia Andrea Stanton 14. Preachers of Oxygen: franchising faith on reality TV Mara Einstein
Introduction Part I: Maintenance of the self 1. Flaunting Christian patriarchy in the 21st century: Todd Chrisley's straight guy with the queer eye Diane Winston 2. Making over body and soul: gender, selfhood, and parables of spiritual neoliberalism on Makeover TV Brenda R. Weber 3. Black female sexual agency and racialized holy sex in black Christian reality TV shows Monique Moultrie Part II: The performance of authenticity 4. "This is just an incredible God thing": monetized domesticity in bottom-up media Katherine Madden 5. "The renovation starts now!": rite-of-passage reality television Erica Hurwitz Andrus 6. When the most popular format reaches the most atypical country: reality TV and religion in Israel Yoel Cohen and Amir Hetsroni 7. All-American cancellation: spectacle and neoliberal performativity in All-American Muslim Melinda Q. Brennan Part III: Niche markets 8. Sister Wives: the Protestantization of Mormon polygamy Myev Rees 9. Paranormal reality television: audience engagement with mediums and spirit communication Annette Hill 10. Conjuring spirits in a neoliberal era: ghost reality television, Third Wave spiritual warfare, and haunting pasts Sean McCloud 11. Amish reality and reality TV "Amishness": agonism in the cultural marketplace Stewart M. Hoover Part IV: Commodification of the sacred 12. Praying for reality: the invisible hand in Downey and Burnett's Answered Prayers Sharon Lauricella 13. "The search for a young Imam begins now": Imam Muda and civilizational Islam in Malaysia Andrea Stanton 14. Preachers of Oxygen: franchising faith on reality TV Mara Einstein
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