Protestant Periodicals in Transition

From the Twentieth Century to the Digital Age
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-54835-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 587 g

Reihe: Studies in Periodical Cultures

Protestant Periodicals in Transition: From the Twentieth Century to the Digital Age demarcates the field of religious periodical studies by offering a range of historical and contemporary case studies from different Protestant traditions drawn from various regions of the world. Taking religion, periodicals, and their cultures seriously, this volume focuses not only on content but on the people, processes, networks, technologies, and economics involved in periodical publishing. Case studies explore the role of the Protestant magazine in defining, policing, and extending the boundaries of religious communities, of engaging with and influencing the surrounding society through political activism and lifestyle advice, and adapting to and sometimes spearheading technological changes to keep relevant in changing times.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bassimir, Anja-Maria

Gelfgren, Stefan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Organisation & Institutionen von Kirchen und Gemeinden
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Mediengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Keeping the Faith in Protestant Periodical Cultures

Anja-Maria Bassimir and Stefan Gelfgren

PART 1: Community

Introduction to Part 1

1 motive Magazine and the Ambiguity of Denominational Journalism in the Twentieth Century United States

Skylar Ray

2 Christian Magazines and Audience Connection: an Exploration of African Publications and Their Relationship to Technology and Media

Tamara J. Welter

3 Jehovah Online: Magazines in the New Media Landscape of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Switzerland and Germany

Andrea Rota

PART 2: Mission and Politics

Introduction to Part 2

4 The Religious Magazine Nya Väktaren and the Skepparslöv Case of 1937–1938 in Sweden as a Media Campaign

Daniel Lindmark

5 Between Ferdinand Marcos and Rodrigo Duterte: Autocratic Politics and Ministry Digest in the Philippines

Giovanni Maltese

6 Health and Lifestyle as Marketing Strategies for Winning Souls: the Magazine Vida e Saúde of Brazilian Seventh-Day Adventists

Karina Kosicki Bellotti

PART 3: Innovation

Introduction to Part 3

7 Ecumenical Trends in Dutch Reformed Periodicals in the Twentieth Century

Christoph van den Belt

8 Christian Conservatism in Ecumenical Disguise in the United States: from the Christian Century to First Things

Philipp Reisner

9 Social Media as Periodicals? Tradition and Continuity in Conservative and Charismatic Movements

Stefan Gelfgren

10 Evangelicals and Social Media in the United States

Michael Longinow

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Anja-Maria Bassimir is Assistant Professor and postdoctoral researcher at the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. She is part of the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 1482 Human Categorization. Her book, Evangelical News, was published with Alabama University Press in 2022.

Stefan Gelfgren is Associate Professor of the Sociology of Religion, at the Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Umeå University, Sweden. His research focuses on 19th Century Evangelical revivalism, religion and digital media, religion and technology, and surveillance studies.