Practical Spiritualities in a Media Age (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Coats, Curtis; Emerich, Monica M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

We live in a media age where technologies become the sites and sources of our practices and beliefs, including those deeper values that guide decisions about how we should live.

Practical Spiritualities in a Media Age explores how and why media become the site and source of spiritual expressions that address the mundane or everydayness of our lives. Including international case studies and essays from leading scholars such as Stewart Hoover and Graham Harvey, the book examines the ways and the places in which people have employed media and information technologies to weave spiritual meaning throughout the demands and pastimes of their lives. Topics range from food and sex to spiritual tourism.

In doing so, the volume takes up a call from Paul Heelas' seminal work, Spiritualities of Life, to provide more examples, more richness and more depth to the variety of spiritual practices that exist in late modernity. Providing critical, scholarly explorations of the complexities and contradictions of late-modern spiritual practices, Practical Spiritualities in a Media Age is a must-read for anyone working in the intersection of media, religion or spirituality, and culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474223171
• Artikelnr.: 43970003

Autorenporträt

Curtis Coats is Associate Professor of Communication Studies, and Co-director of Film Studies at Millsaps College, USA. He is co-author with Stewart M. Hoover of the forthcoming book, Does God Make the Man? Media, Religion, and the Crisis of Masculinity. Monica M. Emerich is president of Groundwork Communications & Research, based in the USA, and an instructor in the Sustainable Practices Program, University of Colorado-Boulder, USA. Her previous publications include The Gospel of Sustainability: Media, Market, and LOHAS (2011; 2014) and Media, Spiritualities and Social Change (2010) with Stewart Hoover.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The Webs We Spin: Relational
Mediated
Spiritual. By Curtis Coats
Ph.D.
(Millsaps College) and Monica Emerich
Ph.D. (Groundwork Research and Communications; University of Colorado) 2. Mediated Babywearing as Aesthetic Orthodoxy
Florence I. Pasche Guignard
Ph.D. (University of Toronto) 3. Spirituality at Work: Servant Leadership in the Western Workplace
RuthAnn Ritter and Jeffrey Mahan
Ph.D. (Iliff School of Theology) 4. "Helping Glastonbury To Come into its Own": Practical Spirituality
Materiality
and Community Cohesion in Glastonbury
Marion Bowman
Ph.D. (The Open University) 5. Hula Hoop Spiritualities: Social Media
Embodied Experience
and Communities of Practice
Jenna Gray-Hildenbrand
Ph.D. (Middle Tennessee State University) and Martha Smith Roberts (University of California
Santa Barbara) 6. "Another Way": Modernist Artists
Media
and the Desire for Spiritual Community
Jeremy Garber
Ph.D. (Iliff School of Theology) 7. "Dancing Our Prayers": Material Culture and Practical Spiritualities of the Jam Band Scene
Lucas F. Johnston
Ph.D. (Wake Forest University
Department of Religion and Center for Energy
Environment and Sustainability) 8. The Spirit of Place: Identity and Media in Relation to Cornwall
Garry Tregidga
Ph.D. (Institute of Cornish Studies
University of Exeter) 9. Spiritual Narratives and The Icarus Project: Disidentification and Rhetoric of Liberation
Liz Barr (University of Wisconsin) 10. Strategic Confession: Pragmatic Religion and Spirituality in the PostSecret Community
Rachel Liberman
Ph.D. (University of Denver) and Stewart M. Hoover
Ph.D. (University of Colorado) 11. A Constructed Category: Baby Boomers Navigating Aging through Spirituality and the Media
Anne Maija Huffman
Ph.D. (Sofia University) 12. Food
Sex
and Spirituality
Graham Harvey
Ph.D. (The Open University) Bibliography Index