The Center for Media, Religion, and Culture<\/span> The Center for Media, Religion, and CultureUniversity of Colorado BoulderJanuary 9-12, 2014A vibrant international scholarship has developed at the intersection of religion and the media. \u00a0The new Century dawned with clear evidence of the resilient validity of religion in contemporary life, evident in national, regional, and international settings. \u00a0 The so-called \u2018return of religion\u2019, or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
University of Colorado Boulder<\/span>
January 9-12, 2014<\/span><\/b>
A vibrant international scholarship has developed at the intersection of religion and the media. \u00a0The new Century dawned with clear evidence of the resilient validity of religion in contemporary life, evident in national, regional, and international settings. \u00a0 The so-called \u2018return of religion\u2019, or resurgence of religiosity in public life, implies, however, not the mere return of an invariant essence of religious meaning, but also creative innovations in both the individual and the collective religious experience. \u00a0 As scholars have increasingly focused on the implications of the mediation or \u201cmediatization\u201d of religion and on the imposition of religious impulses, meanings, and aspirations on the range of things we think of today as \u201cthe media,\u201d it has become obvious that such inquiries must increasingly take account of the global context.<\/span>
This includes, but is not limited to, the fact that much of this resurgent mediation of religion is in fundamental ways \u201cglobal,\u201d but also that national, regional, confessional, or sectarian instantiations of religious mediation must necessarily take account of various translocal settings. This is the case even where the locus or aspiration is radically local or narrow. \u00a0But it is not only an issue of the framing of mediations of the religious or religious framings of the media. \u00a0 The media provide networks, channels, symbols and resources by which religious identities find a place in both local and global settings. \u00a0Appadurai\u2019s classic notion of the various \u201c-scapes\u201d might well then be extended to also include \u201creligio-scapes\u201d that are made possible through the instruments and process of modern media, from broadcasting, to print, to film, to the digital and emergent \u201csocial\u201d media. Beyond this, emergent capacities of the global mediascape also make possibl<\/span>e the generation of entirely new senses of, and consciousnesses of \u00a0\u201cthe religious.\u201d<\/span>
This will be the fifth in a series of successful international conferences held by the Center for Media, Religion, and Culture. \u00a0The previous meetings have brought together an interdisciplinary community of scholars for focused conversations on emerging issues in media and religion. \u00a0Each has proven to be an important landmark in the development of theory and method in its respective area and has resulted in important collaborations, publications, and resources for further research and dialogue. Papers and panels may address, but should not be limited to questions such as:<\/span>
\uf06c \u00a0Theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of global religion<\/span>
\uf06c \u00a0\u201cGlobal Religion\u201d as a distinct religious consciousness<\/span>
\uf06c \u00a0Religion, globalization and cosmopolitanism<\/span>
\uf06c \u00a0Role of the media in the emergence of global religious movements<\/span>
\uf06c \u00a0Diasporic media and transnational discourses of religion<\/span>
\uf06c \u00a0The emergence of global networked religious communities<\/span>
\uf06c \u00a0The cultivation of authority and legitimacy in transnational religious spaces<\/span>
\uf06c \u00a0Religion and the \u2018global public sphere\u2019<\/span>
\uf06c \u00a0Media, religion and global politics<\/span>
\uf06c \u00a0Technological mediation, innovation, and global religion<\/span>
\uf06c \u00a0The \u2018religious\u2019 in contemporary globalized modernity<\/span>
\uf06c \u00a0Intersections of religion, media and the global market<\/span>
\uf06c \u00a0Mediation and Mediatization in and across different religious traditions<\/span>
\uf06c \u00a0Media, global religion and comparative religious studies<\/span>
\uf06c \u00a0Media, religion and global youth cultures<\/span>
\uf06c \u00a0Religious aesthetics and sensations in global religion<\/span>
\uf06c \u00a0Media and global religion as forms of social protest and activism<\/span>
Confirmed speakers include:<\/span>
-Pradip Thomas, School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Queensland, Australia and co-director of the Centre for Communication and Social Change<\/span>
-Magali do Nascimento Cunha, Department of Theology at The Universidade Metodista de S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil<\/span>
Other invited speakers:<\/span>
-Brian Larkin, Department of Anthropology at Barnard College.<\/span>
Please send a 300-word abstract by July 15, 2013 to MediaReligion@Colorado.EDU<\/span>
Please include in your abstract submission a preferred e
\nmail address and university and department affiliation.<\/span>
Media and Religion: The Global View is an event of the Center for Media, Religion, and Culture. \u00a0For more information, visit our website at:\u00a0<\/span>cmrc.colorado.edu<\/a>
For questions about this conference, please send an email to Stewart M. Hoover, Director:<\/span>hoover@colorado.edu<\/a>
Nabil Echchaibi, Associate Director:\u00a0<\/span>nabil.echchaibi@colorado.edu<\/a>\u00a0, or Rachael Liberman, Senior Research Fellow:\u00a0<\/span>Rachael.liberman@colorado.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"