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
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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
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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
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Modernity and Fundamentalism in Mongolia
Corey Flintoff, National Public Radio
5. Biblical Prophecy and Foreign Policy
Paul S. Boyer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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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
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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
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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
