Media, Public Scholarship and Religious Controversy: Notes from Trump’s America
The persistence of religion in the twenty-first century has renewed the importance of scholarships devoted to it. At the same time, the digital age has re-positioned and recentered the affordances of mediated circulations around "the religious." This increasing presence and significance of...
| Published in: | Journal of religion, media and digital culture |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2019
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Journal of religion, media and digital culture
Year: 2019, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 153-166 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Trump, Donald 1946-
/ USA
/ Religious conflict
/ Public opinion
/ Media
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion KBQ North America ZA Social sciences ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
| Further subjects: | B
public scholarship
B circulation B Media B Religion B Digital B Politics B Trump |
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| Summary: | The persistence of religion in the twenty-first century has renewed the importance of scholarships devoted to it. At the same time, the digital age has re-positioned and recentered the affordances of mediated circulations around "the religious." This increasing presence and significance of media and religion suggests that substantive scholarships of religion must necessarily articulate media as well. Religious controversies therefore present a special challenge and a special opportunity to scholarships of media and religion. New ways of doing scholarship, and doing so publicly, present themselves. All scholarships of mediated religion must necessarily be public, so scholarship is articulated into these circulations, and at the same time can build on and benefit from knowledge-building that occurs outside the formal boundaries of the academy. This paper explores emerging theories of digital mediation and proposes a circulation-focused understanding of the role, place, and potentials of scholarships today. |
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| ISSN: | 2165-9214 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion, media and digital culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/21659214-00801008 |