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Religion and Mass Media: Audiences and Adaptations
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Journal of American Culture
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October 1, 1997
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Religion and Mass Media: Audiences and Adaptations. Daniel A. Stout and Judith M. Buddenbaum, eds., Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 1996. $22.95 paper; $48.00 cloth.
Religion and Mass Media are two extremely influential dimensions of popular culture. Unfortunately, mass communications researchers often lack an accurate sense of religiosity and religious folks often have a jaundiced view of the media. Consequently, dialogue about the interrelationship of religion and mass media, all too often, has been heated, but not well informed. It is important to ask how religious people interact with the mass media. That is precisely what this book sets out to do.
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