Quoting God

How Media Shape Ideas about Religion and Culture

Edited by Claire Hoertz Badaracco

320 pages, 6.00 x 9.00 in

Paperback
9781932792065
Published: January 2005

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Contents
Bio
Praise

Quoting God charts the many ways in which media reports religion news, how media uses the quoted word to describe lived faith, and how media itself influences—and is influenced by—religion in the public square. The volume intentionally brings together the work of academics, who study religion as a crucial factor in the construction of identity, and the work of professional journalists, who regularly report on religion in an age of instant and competitive news. This book clearly demonstrates that the relationship between media culture and spiritual culture is foundational and multi-directional; that the relationship between news values and religion in political life is influential; and that the relationship amongst modernity, belief, and journalism is pivotal.

Acknowledgments

Foreword
John Dart, Christian Century Magazine

Introduction: Quotation and the Life of Public Texts
Claire Hoertz Badaracco, Marquette University

1. Journalism and the Religious Imagination
John Schmalzbauer, College of the Holy Cross

VIEW FROM THE NEWS DESK
Radio in Tibet: A Portable Window on the Sacred
John B. Buescher, Tibetan News Service, Voice of America

2. God Talk in the Public Square
C. Welton Gaddy, National Interfaith Alliance

VIEW FROM THE NEWS DESK
Law and the Middle East Media: Between Censorship and Independence
Mohammed el-Nawawy, Georgia State University

3. The First Amendment and the Falun Gong
Paul Moses, Brooklyn College

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First Amendment and the Common Good
Peter Smith, Louisville Courier-Journal

4. A Framework for Understanding Fundamentalism
Rebecca Moore, San Diego State University

VIEW FROM THE NEWS DESK
Modernity and Fundamentalism in Mongolia
Corey Flintoff, National Public Radio

5. Biblical Prophecy and Foreign Policy
Paul S. Boyer, University of Wisconsin-Madison

VIEW FROM THE NEWS DESK
Post-9/11 Media and Muslim Identity in American Media
Aslam Abdallah, Minaret and Muslim Observer

6. Last Words: Death and Public Self-Expression
John P. Ferré, University of Louisville

VIEW FROM THE NEWS DESK
Comedy and Death in Media Space
Mark I. Pinsky, Orlando Sentinel

7. Collective Memory, National Identity: Victims and Victimizers in Japan
Richard A. Gardner, Sophia University-Tokyo

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Religious Contradiction and the Japanese Soul
Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times

8. Appalachian Regional Identity in National Media
Howard Dorgan, Appalachian State University

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The Reporter as Participant-Observer
Adam Phillips, Voice of America

9. The Virgin of Guadalupe as Cultural Icon
Virgilio Elizondo, University of Notre Dame

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Desert Religions
Richard Rodriguez, Pacific News Service

10 Reporting Complexity: Science and Religion
Jame Schaefer, Marquette University

VIEW FROM THE NEWS DESK
Fairness and Pressure Advocacy in Controversial Science
Joe Williams, New York Daily News

11 Vatican Opinion on Modern Communication
Paul Soukup, S.J., University of Santa Clara

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Mocha and Meditation Mats
David Crumm, Detroit Free Press

Conclusion: A Relationship of Overlapping Conversations
Gustav Niebuhr, Syracuse University

Notes

Bibliography

About the Contributors

Index

For better and for worse, we are all connected as people shaped by media. This rich and multi-faceted reader in religion and modern communications shows how the need to tell each other stories affects the shapers and the shaped.
~Kenneth L. Woodward, Contributing Editor, Newsweek

Quoting God is a testament to the stunning diversity and complexity of what Gus Niebuhr calls the "religion-media encounter." Of the many significant contributions the book makes, one of the most important is to remind us that religion intersects with almost every conceivable journalistic "beat." The book illustrates the kind of fresh and informative stories that can result when journalists recognize these intersections.
~Melissa Rogers, Visiting Professor of Religion and Public Policy Wake Forest University Divinity School

Badaracco has assembled an impressive collection of essays by leading scholars and journalism professionals... Those who have, or will have, the responsibility for analyzing and reporting on religion should have access to this timely volume... Highly recommended.
~CHOICE

The essays in this book each make a unique contribution on a subject much discussed but little understood.
~Michael Cromartie, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington

Quoting God

How Media Shape Ideas about Religion and Culture

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