Mediating Catholicism - (New Directions in the Anthropology of Christianity) by Eric Hoenes del Pinal & Marc Roscoe Loustau & Kristin Norget

Book Synopsis

This book focuses on the ethnographic study of Catholicism and media. Chapters demonstrate how people engage with the Catholic media-scape, and analyse the social, cultural, and political processes that underlie Catholic media and mediatization.

Case studies examine Catholic practices in North America, Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America, South-East Asia, and Africa, providing a truly comparative, de-centred representation of global Catholicism.

Illustrating the vibrancy and heterogeneity of Catholicism world-wide, the book also examines how media work to sustain larger global Catholic imaginaries.

Review Quotes

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.

Jon P. Mitchell, Professor of Anthropology, University of Sussex, UK

About the Author

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.