Description
Media Perceptions of Religious Changes in Australia
Of Dominance and Diversity
Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Religion Series
Author: Weng Enqi
Language: EnglishSubject for Media Perceptions of Religious Changes in Australia:
Keywords
Australian Broadcasting Control Board; Australian Christian Lobby; Secular Sacred; Agnostics; ANZAC Day; Conventional Religion; Australian Public Sphere; Child Sex Abuse Cases; Australian Religion; Australian Religiosity; Common Religion; Disengaged; Secularisation Thesis; Episode Groups; Habermasian Concept; Atheist Perspectives; Religion References; Scott’s Pi; ABC; Minority Religions; Australian Citizenship Test; Hillsong; Sacred Forms; Media Religion
Publication date: 08-2021
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 12-2019
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
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This volume explores the contradiction between the news coverage given to issues of religion, particularly since 2001 in relation to issues such as terrorism, politics, security and gender, and the fact of its apparent decline according to Census data. Based on media research in Australia, and offering comparisons with the UK, the author demonstrates that media discussions overlook the diversity that exists within religions, particularly the country?s main religion, Christianity, and presents religion according to specific interpretations shaped by race, class and gender, which in turn result in very limited understandings of religion itself. Drawing on understandings of the sacred as a non-negotiable value present in religious and secular form, Media Perceptions of Religious Changes in Australia calls for a broader sociological perspective on religion and will appeal to scholars of sociology and media studies with interests in religion and public life.
1. Problematising ‘Religion’
2. Historical and Current Perspectives on Australian Religion and Spirituality
3. Changing Perspectives on Religion
4. Australian Religion in the Public Sphere
5. Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Q&A Program: A Case Study
6. Changing Nature of Australian Religion
7. Mediation and Mediatisation of Religion
8. The Sacred in Evolution
9. Comparison with ‘Media Religion’ in Britain
10. The Way Forward
Appendix 1: Coding Categories
Appendix 2: Coding: Topic of Discussions
Appendix 3: Transcription Convention
Appendix 4: Program References
Enqi Weng is a Research Fellow on the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Project ‘Religious Diversity in Australia: Strategies to Maintain Social Cohesion’. She teaches media studies and religious studies units at Deakin University, Australia.