By Kim Knott,Elizabeth Poole

ISBN-10: 1409448053

ISBN-13: 9781409448051

ISBN-10: 1409448061

ISBN-13: 9781409448068

Is it real that Christianity is being marginalised through the secular media, on the price of Islam? Are the mass media Islamophobic? Is atheism at the upward thrust in media assurance? Media Portrayals of faith and the Secular Sacred explores such questions and argues that tv and newspapers stay key assets of renowned information regarding faith. they're rather major at a time whilst non secular participation in Europe is declining but the general public visibility and effect of religions seems expanding. according to research of mainstream media, the ebook is decided within the context of wider debates concerning the sociology of faith and media illustration. The authors draw on examine carried out within the Nineteen Eighties and 2008-10 to check British media assurance and illustration of faith and modern secular values, and to think about what has replaced within the final 25 years. Exploring the portrayal of Christianity and public existence, Islam and spiritual range, atheism and secularism, and well known ideals and practices, numerous media occasions also are tested intimately: the Papal stopover at to the united kingdom in 2010 and the ban of the debatable Dutch MP, Geert Wilders, in 2009. faith is proven to be deeply embedded within the language and photographs of the click and tv, and found in all kinds of assurance from information and documentaries to leisure, activities reporting and advertisements. a last bankruptcy engages with worldwide debates approximately faith and media.

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