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RELIGION AND THE RHETORIC OF THE MASS MEDIA.
- Source :
- Review of Religious Research; Summer80, Vol. 21 Issue 3, p256, 20p
- Publication Year :
- 1980
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Abstract
- Using content-analytic procedures, the authors investigate how American religion has been defined, described, and given "social reality" via mass communication. Six hundred and forty-eight religion sections appearing in Time magazine between 1947 and 1976 were analyzed in several ways. Statistical treatment of the data revealed that (1) religion is depicted as a conflict-ridden human enterprise, (2) denominational stereotypes and geographical biases affect media coverage of religion, and (3) media-based portrayals of religion differ sharply from demographic and sociological facts. Five conventional explanations of these data are discussed, but a sixth--a rhetorical understanding of mass communication activities--is preferred. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0034673X
- Volume :
- 21
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Review of Religious Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 10711413
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3509807