Title:
Sex, religion, media
Publication Information:
Lanham, MA : Rowman & Littlefield, 2002
ISBN:
9780742515581
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Summary
Summary
Each chapter in this unique volume explores intersections of sex, religion, and media in our society. An interdisciplinary cast of contributors examines a wide variety of themes, including entertainment producers' roles in disseminating sexual and religious content; news coverage of stories about sex and religion; religious conservatives' efforts to influence media coverage of sex and 'values;' and how religious consumers are influenced by and react to sexual content in media.
Author Notes
Dane S. Claussen is associate professor and graduate program director in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at Point Park College.
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. xiii |
| Part I The Engagement and Avoidance of Sex and Religion in Media Production | |
| 1 Bernarr Macfadden's Physical Culture: Marketing Health by Selling Bodies, Health, and Morals | p. 3 |
| 2 The Whore of Babylon, Suggestibility, and the Art of Sexless Sex in Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah (1949) | p. 21 |
| 3 Religious and Sexual Images in Rock Videos: A Second-by-Second Analysis | p. 33 |
| 4 The Muddled Middle: protestantism's Encounter with Homosexuality since the 1960s | p. 43 |
| 5 A Broken Trust: Canadian Priests, Brothers, Pedophilia, and the Media | p. 65 |
| 6 The Silence of the Jewish Media on Sexual Abuse in the Orthodox Jewish Community | p. 79 |
| Part II Media Content, Conservatives, Sex, and the "Liberal Establishment" | |
| 7 "I didn't need to see the tattooed lady takin' it off": Evangelicals and Representations of Sexuality in Contemporary Film | p. 91 |
| 8 Responses to Television from the New Christian Right: The Donald Wildmon Organizations' Fight against Sexual Content | p. 101 |
| 9 Magazine Coverage of the Man the Networks Love to Hate | p. 115 |
| 10 Morality Politics Associated with Abstinence-Only Sex Education Sought as a Remedy to Welfare Dependency | p. 123 |
| Part III Media Content, Liberals, Sex, and the "Conservative Establishment" | |
| 11 The Organ in the Sanctuary: Silent Film and Paradigmatic Images of the Suspect Clergy | p. 139 |
| 12 Cult Sex: The Mass Media Reporting of Sexual Issues Surrounding New Religious Movements | p. 153 |
| 13 Issue Culture Analysis and the Gay/Lesbian Religious Controversy | p. 171 |
| 14 The Word on Sex: Biblical Interpretation on the Web and Constructed Realities | p. 183 |
| 15 Between Law and Love: Christianity, Politics, and Sexual Citizenship | p. 197 |
| Part IV Media Agenda-Setting and Cultivation of Religion and Sex | |
| 16 The Disenchantment of Modern Sexuality: Packaged by Media into Weber's "Iron Cage" | p. 217 |
| 17 Family, Peers, Religiosity, Electronic Media, and the Risk of Adolescent Sexual Activity | p. 235 |
| 18 Media Cultivation and Perceptions of Sexual Morality in Church of Christ Adolescents | p. 253 |
| 19 "Oh God, My Kid Is Gay!": The Effects of Religious Belief and Media Consumption on Parental Ability to Accept a Lesbian, Gay, or Bisexual Child | p. 265 |
| Conclusion | p. 271 |
| Index | p. 283 |
| About the Editor and Contributors | p. 293 |
