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Communication

Begin your research on communication, mass media, and related fields using the best indexes, databases, and reference works selected by the subject librarian.
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The call number ranges for communication and religion are scattered within the collections. However, 2 locations of particular interest are BL 638 in Berry Lower Level and the P 94 in Baker Stack Level 3. Always check the online catalog before venturing into the stacks to save yourself time. Useful subject headings to begin your search in the online catalog follow:

  • mass media in religion
  • mass media religious aspects
  • journalism, religious
  • communication religious aspects
  • Cover ArtCommunicating faith by John Sullivan, ed.
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    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780813217963
    Communicating faith has always been an essential component of Christian life. Whether it is Jesus communicating faith through the parables, popes through letters, church leaders through catechisms, or parents through prayer and everyday living, relating faith is as important today as ever. This book enriches appreciation of the many ways that Christian faith is communicated. It casts light on the sensitivities, skills, and qualities necessary for the effective communication of faith, where justice is done both to the "seed" to be sown and to the "soil" being cultivated. Contributors draw upon their substantial academic and pastoral experience to highlight key features of the contexts where faith is communicated. ...
  • Cover ArtFrom Yahweh to Yahoo!: the religious roots of the secular press by Doug Underwood
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    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780252027062
    This wide-ranging study--hailed by American Journalism as one of the year's best books--provides a fresh and surprising view of the religious impulses at work in the typical newsroom by delving into the largely unexamined parallels between religion and journalism, from the "media" of antiquity to the electronic idolatry of the Internet. Focusing on how the history of religion in the United States has been entwined with the growth of the media, Doug Underwood argues that American journalists are rooted in the nation's moral and religious heritage and operate, in important ways, as personifications of the old religious virtues.
  • Cover ArtMedia and religion: the global view by Stewart M. Hoover; Nabil Echchaibi, eds.
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    Call Number: Baker-Berry PN 4784 .T45 M43 2021
    ISBN: 9783110499865
    This volume considers the mediation of religion in the context of global relations of power, culture, and communication. It takes a nuanced, historical view of emergent religions and their mediation in various forms. The wide range of chapters provides valuable insight into particular contexts while also offering connections to other cases and contexts. Together, they form a snapshot of religious evolution in the media age.
  • Cover ArtThe Oxford handbook of religion and the American news media by Diane Winston, ed.
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    Call Number: Baker-Berry BL 2525 .O95 2012
    ISBN: 9780195395068
    Once relegated to the private sphere, or confined to its own section of the newspaper, religion is now a major part of daily news coverage. Every journalist needs a basic knowledge of religion to cover everything from presidential elections to the war in Iraq to the ethical issues raised by the latest developments in medical research. The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the American News Media will be the go-to volume for both secular and religious journalists and journalism educators, scholars in media studies, journalism studies, religious studies, and American studies. ...
  • Cover ArtWhen religion meets new media by Heidi Campbell
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    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780415349567
    This lively book focuses on how different Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities engage with new media. Rather than simply reject or accept new media, religious communities negotiate complex relationships with these technologies in light of their history and beliefs. Heidi Campbell suggests a method for studying these processes she calls the "religious-social shaping of technology" and students are asked to consider four key areas: religious tradition and history; contemporary community values and priorities; negotiation and innovating technology in light of the community; communal discourses applied to justify use. ...
  • Cover ArtFrom Jesus to the internet: a history of Christianity and media by Peter Horsfield
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    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9781118447376
    From Jesus to the Internet examines Christianity as a mediated phenomenon, paying particular attention to how various forms of media have influenced and developed the Christian tradition over the centuries. It is the first systematic survey of this topic and the author provides those studying or interested in the intersection of religion and media with a lively and engaging chronological narrative. With insights into some of Christianity's most hotly debated contemporary issues, this book provides a much-needed historical basis for this interdisciplinary field.
  • Cover ArtMedia portrayals of religion and the secular sacred: representation and change by Kim Knott; Elizabeth Poole
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    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9781409448068
    Is it true that Christianity is being marginalised by the secular media, at the expense of Islam? Are the mass media Islamophobic? Is atheism on the rise in media coverage? Media Portrayals of Religion and the Secular Sacred explores such questions and argues that television and newspapers remain key sources of popular information about religion. They are particularly significant at a time when religious participation in Europe is declining yet the public visibility and influence of religions seems to be increasing. ...
  • Cover ArtThe struggle for the soul of journalism: the pulpit versus the press, 1833-1923 by Ronald R. Rodgers
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    • E-Book
    Call Number: eBook
    ISBN: 9780826221582
    In this study, Ronald R. Rodgers examines several narratives involving religion's historical influence on the news ethic of journalism: its decades-long opposition to the Sunday newspaper as a vehicle of modernity that challenged the tradition of the Sabbath; the parallel attempt to create an advertising-driven Christian daily newspaper; and the ways in which religion--especially the powerful Social Gospel movement--pressured the press to become a moral agent. The digital disruption of the news media today has provoked a similar search for a news ethic that reflects a new era--for instance, in the debate about jettisoning the substrate of contemporary mainstream journalism, objectivity. But, Rodgers argues, before we begin to transform journalism's present news ethic, we need to understand its foundation and formation in the past.
  • Resource logoReligion and the media from Oxford Bibliographies Online - Communication by Judith M. Buddenbaum
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    Call Number: Electronic resource
    ISBN: 9780199756841
    Churches and other religious organizations have always conducted or commissioned media research addressing their interests. Scholarly journals have always published occasional articles dealing with religion and media. However, as a distinct area for scholarly inquiry, religion and media owes its origin in the United States to a confluence of events during the late 1970s that made religion important in a way it had not been since the 1925 Scopes trial. ...
  • Issue cover artJournal of media and religion
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    Call Number: Electronic journal
    The Journal of Media and Religion is a journal publishing original research that addresses how religion as a social and cultural phenomenon broadens understanding of mass communication and society. The journal examines a full range of religious traditions (e.g., Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Eastern religious philosophies, and new/alternative religious movements) and serves as a forum for scholars, media professionals, and theologians.
  • Magazine logoThe revealer: a daily review of religtion and the press by Center for Religion and Media at NYU
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    Call Number: Electronic magazine
    The Revealer is an award-winning online magazine that explores religion and its many roles in society and people’s lives. Published ten times a year, The Revealer takes seriously how religion shapes, and is shaped by, race, sexuality, gender, politics, history, and culture. ...
  • Resource logoATLA religion database by American Theological Library Association
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    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    This is a searchable database of citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, and book reviews in the fields of religious and theological studies. Journals representing all the major religious faiths, major denominations, and numerous language groups are included.
  • Resource logoCommunication & mass media complete (CMMC) by Ebsco
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    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    This is the main article index for the field of Communications and Mass Media.
  • Resource logoThe web of science citation databases by ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)
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    • Database
    Call Number: Electronic resource
    The online version of 3 separate ISI indexes: Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index and, Social Sciences Citation Index.
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    U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF)
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    The Mission of USCIRF is to advance international freedom of religion or belief, by independently assessing and unflinchingly confronting threats to this fundamental right.
  • Government Promotion of Religion - ACLU
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    Religious freedom is not only one of our most treasured liberties, but it is also a fundamental human right and a defining feature of our national character. ...

Internet resource(s) for communication and religion

  • Religion News Service
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    The Religion News Service aims to be the largest single source of news about religion, spirituality and ideas. They strive to inform, illuminate and inspire public discourse on matters relating to belief and convictions.
  • Religion & Ethics Newsweekly
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    Religion & Ethics Newsweekly has set itself apart from the mainstream media by providing distinctive, cutting-edge news coverage and analysis of national and international events in the ever-changing religious world.

Keeping up with the journal literature

Want an easy way to keep up with the journal literature for all facets of Communication? And you use a mobile device? You can install the BrowZine app and create a custom Bookshelf of your favorite journal titles. Then you will get the Table of Contents (ToCs) of your favorite journals automatically delivered to you when they become available. Once you have the ToC's you can download and read the articles you want.

You can get the app from the App Store or Google Play.

Don't own or use a mobile device? You can still use BrowZine! It's now available in a web version. You can get to it here. The web version works the same way as the app version. Find the journals you like, create a custom Bookshelf, get ToCs and read the articles you want.

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