Between Sacred and Profane: Researching Religion and Popular Culture

by Gordon Lynch

Over the past ten years there has been an explosion of interest in how religion and the sacred connect with the media and cultures of everyday life. How are religious communities, identities and rituals being transformed by new media such as the internet? What is the significance of the media when for many people it becomes the primary source of images and of an encounter with religious traditions? Do the media and popular culture themselves take...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845115406
• ISBN13: 9781845115401
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"