Religion and Reality TV

Religion and Reality TV
Author: Mara Einstein
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 113479214X

Why is reality television flourishing in today's expanding media market? Religion and Reality TV: Faith in Late Capitalism argues that the reality genre offers answers to many of life's urgent questions: Why am I important? What gives my life meaning? How do I present my best self to the world? Case studies address these questions by examining religious representations through late capitalist lenses, including the maintenance of the self, the commodification of the sacred, and the performance of authenticity. The book's fourteen essays explore why religious themes proliferate in reality TV, audiences' fascination with "lived religion," and the economics that make religion and reality TV a successful pairing. Chapters also consider the role of race, gender, and religion in the production and reception of programming. Religion and Reality TV provides a framework for understanding the intersection of celebrity, media attention, beliefs, and values. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of religion and media studies, communication, American studies, and popular culture.

Reality Television

Reality Television
Author: Ruth A. Deller
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2019-11-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1839090235

Reality television is shown worldwide, features people from all walks of life and covers everything from romance to religion. It has not only changed television, but every other area of the media. So why has reality TV become such a huge phenomenon, and what is its future in an age of streaming and social media?

Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age

Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age
Author: Elisabeth Arweck
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 135193757X

In recent years, there has been growing awareness across a range of academic disciplines of the value of exploring issues of religion and the sacred in relation to cultures of everyday life. Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age offers inter-disciplinary perspectives drawing from theology, religious studies, media studies, cultural studies, film studies, sociology and anthropology. Combining theoretical frameworks for the analysis of religion, media and popular culture, with focused international case studies of particular texts, practices, communities and audiences, the authors examine topics such as media rituals, marketing strategies, empirical investigations of audience testimony, and the influence of religion on music, reality television and the internet. Both academically rigorous and of interest to a wider readership, this book offers a wide range of fascinating explorations at the cutting edge of many contemporary debates in sociology, religion and media, including chapters on the way evangelical groups in America have made use of The Da Vinci Code and on the influences of religion on British club culture and electronic dance music.

Reality Television and Arab Politics

Reality Television and Arab Politics
Author: Marwan M. Kraidy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521769191

This book analyzes how reality television fuelled heated polemics over cultural authenticity, gender relations, and political participation in the Middle East.

Religion to Reality

Religion to Reality
Author: Terry Thomas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2011-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781935359890

Religion to Reality follows Dr. Terry Thomas's spiritual quest, prompted by a devastating loss. The book traces his journey across the U.S. and around the world in search of purpose and truth outside of or inside of a religious framework.

Consuming Religion

Consuming Religion
Author: Kathryn Lofton
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 374
Release: 2017-09-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 022648209X

Introduction: being consumed -- Practicing commodity. Binge religion: social life in extremity ; The spirit in the cubicle: a religious history of the American office -- Revising ritual. Ritualism revived: from scientia ritus to consumer rites ; Purifying America: rites of salvation in the soap campaign -- Imagining celebrity. Sacrificing Britney: celebrity and religion in America ; The celebrification of religion in the age of infotainment -- Valuing family. Religion and the authority in American parenting ; Kardashian nation: work in America's klan ; Rethinking corporate freedom -- Corporation as sect. On the origins of corporate culture ; Do not tamper with the clues: notes on Goldman Sachs -- Conclusion: family matters

Reality TV

Reality TV
Author: Misha Kavka
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2012-02-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0748654356

This book is a study of the 'Reality TV' format which, in less than a decade, has transformed network programming schedules, branded satellite and digital stations, become a favourite target for anti-television campaigners, and turned viewers into savvy r

Reality TV

Reality TV
Author: Anita Biressi
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2005
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781904764045

"Through detailed case studies this book breaks new ground by linking together two major themes: the production of realism and its relationship to revelation. It addresses 'truth telling', confession and the production of knowledges about the self and its place in the world".--BOOKJACKET.

New Religions and the Mediation of Non-Monogamy

New Religions and the Mediation of Non-Monogamy
Author: Michelle Mueller
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2021-08-19
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0429588739

New Religions and the Mediation of Non-Monogamy examines the relationship between alternative American religions and the media representation of non-monogamies on reality-TV shows like Sister Wives, Seeking Sister Wife, and Polyamory: Married & Dating. The book is the first full-length study informed by fieldwork with Mormon polygamists and fieldwork with LGBTQ Neo-Pagan/Neo-Tantric polyamorists. The book tracks community members’ responses to the new media about them, their engagement with television and other media, and the likeness of representations to actual populations through fieldwork and interviews. The book highlights differences in socioeconomic privileges that shape Mormon polygamists’ lives and LGBTQ polyamorists’ lives, respectively. The polyamory movement receives support from liberal media. As reality TV has shifted the image of Mormon polygamy to one of liberal American middle-class culture, Mormon polygamists have gained in public favor. The media landscape of non-monogamy is mediated by, in addition to these alternative religious populations, the norms and practices of the reality-TV industry and by sociocultural and economic realities, including race and class. This book adds to the fields of media studies, critical race and gender studies, new religious movements, and queer studies.