Collecting Praise: Global Culture Industries

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics
Subtitle of host publicationSecond Edition
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
Pages124-138
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9781444331349
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 20 2011

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • General Arts and Humanities

Keywords

  • Advanced industrial countries, the United States - culture industries, economic role disproportionate to size
  • Being a Christian is a learned condition - requiring others to help us understand and embodying role of disciple
  • Christian and secular ethicists, and media control - criticizing exclusion of women, ethnic minorities, poor people and marginal groups from positions of decision-making within media enterprises
  • Christian ethicists and activists, control of media - championing media literacy in churches, religious schools and secular settings
  • Collecting praise, global culture industries - "Learning our place in the Christian story" might be a serviceable definition of Christian discipleship
  • Content, a major concern of the Vatican - in its institutional statements on mass media
  • Disney to AOL Time Warner, Newscorp to Microsoft - from cradle to grave, people immersed in a "cultural ecology"
  • Ecclesiology of mainstream Christianity - "the ubiquitous rise of emotion-saturated narrative" in mass-media culture, critic Hal Niedzviecki, noting a diminution of the role of serious literature
  • Market structure in culture industries - variation across sectors, handful of firms enjoying oligopoly advantages
  • Stories, symbols, songs and exemplars - not the Church that carries these to most people, even to most Christians

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