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Introduction: Relaunching the Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture

Introduction: Relaunching the Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture Welcome to the relaunch of the Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture!After six years of open-access publication, we are starting a new network of partnerships for this journal, including a new publisher (Brill), a new partner organization (the International Society for Media, Religion and Culture) and a new pricing system. We are also expanding our scope beyond digital technologies to include the whole field of religion, media and culture. This short introduction, co-authored by the Editor of this journal (Tim Hutchings) and the President of our partner society (Mia Lövheim), is designed to explain what the journal now represents and how it will work in the future.Why Study Religion, Media and Culture?Religious ideas and practices are communicated, learned, represented, enacted and resisted through media. Religion circulates today through social media, is discussed and depicted in the news and becomes a source of imagery for film and television. Popular understandings of religious belief and practice are formed in part by encounters with these representations in journalism and entertainment media.Religious institutions and entrepreneurs produce their own media, too, from books to radio and tv preachers to religious videogames. These religious media may circulate through mass media channels (where space for http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
2588-8099
DOI
10.1163/25888099-00701001
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Abstract

Welcome to the relaunch of the Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture!After six years of open-access publication, we are starting a new network of partnerships for this journal, including a new publisher (Brill), a new partner organization (the International Society for Media, Religion and Culture) and a new pricing system. We are also expanding our scope beyond digital technologies to include the whole field of religion, media and culture. This short introduction, co-authored by the Editor of this journal (Tim Hutchings) and the President of our partner society (Mia Lövheim), is designed to explain what the journal now represents and how it will work in the future.Why Study Religion, Media and Culture?Religious ideas and practices are communicated, learned, represented, enacted and resisted through media. Religion circulates today through social media, is discussed and depicted in the news and becomes a source of imagery for film and television. Popular understandings of religious belief and practice are formed in part by encounters with these representations in journalism and entertainment media.Religious institutions and entrepreneurs produce their own media, too, from books to radio and tv preachers to religious videogames. These religious media may circulate through mass media channels (where space for

Journal

Journal of Religion, Media and Digital CultureBrill

Published: Apr 16, 2018

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