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Article: Sex, Religion, Media.(Book Review)
- Article from:
- Sociology of Religion
- Article date:
- June 22, 2003
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Sex, Religion, Media, DANE S. CLAUSSEN (ed.). New York, NY: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002, 295 pp.; $72.50 (cloth).
This edited volume investigates the intersection of three seemingly disparate (but in reality, intricately interconnected) fields of religion, mass media and sexuality. As editor Dane Claussen correctly points out, the United States is one of the most religious countries in the world, mass media are pervasive in American society, and the U.S. may be the most sex-obsessed culture in existence.
Claussen has brought together chapters from 19 contributors, representing a wide range of methodological approaches from the humanities, ...
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