Mediating Catholicism

Eric Hoenes del Pinal is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA.Marc Loustau is Visiting Lecturer in Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross, USA.Kristin Norget is Associate Professor of Anthropology at McGill University, Canada.

• List of ImagesList of ContributorsAcknowledgements Introduction: Mediating Catholicism, Marc Loustau (College of the Holy Cross, USA), Kristin Norget (McGill University, Canada), and Eric Hoenes del Pinal (University of North Carolina, USA)1. Mediatizing Holy Week: Guatemalan Catholic Experiments with Radio and Facebook, Eric Hoenes del Pinal (University of North Carolina, USA)2. NFP Online: The Mutable Religious Space of Social Media, Katherine Dugan (Springfield College, USA)3. The Stakes of Catholic Media Practices in Chad, Ludovic Lado (Center for Research and Action for Peace, Institute of Human Dignity and Rights, Ivory Coast)4. 'This station only runs on Love’: Post-Bureaucratic Evangelism in a Transylvanian Catholic Media Organization, Marc Loustau (College of the Holy Cross, USA)5. A Touch of Love: On Words, Things, and the Global Aspirations of U.S. Catholics, Hillary Kaell (Concordia University, Canada)6. Religious Celebrities and the Expansion of Suffering in the Philippines and Timor-Leste, Julius Bautista (Kyoto University, Japan)7. Exorcism in the Media, Thomas J. Csordas (University of California, San Diego, USA)8. Abundance and the Late Capitalist Imagination: Catholicism and Fashion at the Metropolitan Museum, Elayne Oliphant (New York University, USA)9. Miraculous Sovereignties: Mediation and the Señor de los, Kristin Norget (McGill University, Canada)10. The Mediatization of Catholicism: Some Challenges and Remarks, Luis Mauro Sa Martino (Faculdade Cásper Líbero, Brazil)Notes BibliographyIndex

This is a really exhilarating collection that demonstrates not only the complex relationship between Catholicism and Media, but also the extent to which Catholicism is a religion of Media. It brings together top rate scholarship covering regional and national Catholicisms, as well as a range of different media: print, radio, television, and social media. It also extends the notion of media to explore themes such as the word ‘love’ as a form of Catholic medium, and ritual as media. It is ground-breaking and fascinating. A major contribution to contemporary religious scholarship.