Christianity and the Mass Media in America Toward a Democratic Accommodation |
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| Author:
| Schultze, Quentin J. |
| Series title: | Rhetoric and Public Affairs Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-87013-774-7 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2005 |
| Publisher: | Michigan State University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $19.95 |
Book Description:
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Schultze demonstrates how religion and the media in America have borrowed each other's rhetoric. In the process, they have also helped to keep each other honest, pointing out respective foibles and pretensions. Christian media have offered the public as well as religious tribes some of the best media criticism-- better than most of the media criticism produced by mainstream media themselves. Meanwhile, mainstream media have rightly taken particular churches to task for...
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Schultze demonstrates how religion and the media in America have borrowed each other's rhetoric. In the process, they have also helped to keep each other honest, pointing out respective foibles and pretensions. Christian media have offered the public as well as religious tribes some of the best media criticism-- better than most of the media criticism produced by mainstream media themselves. Meanwhile, mainstream media have rightly taken particular churches to task for misdeeds as well as offered some surprisingly good depictions of religious life.