Table of Contents

''Mapping the Royal Road'': An Introduction to the Oxford Handbook on Religion and the American News Media, Diane Winston
Section One: History
1. Religion and News in Eighteenth-Century America, David Copeland
2. The Penny Press and the Birth of Modern Religion Reporting, Judith M. Buddenbaum
3. American Journalism and Religion, 1870-1930, Richard Flory
4. Religion News Coverage between 1930 and 1960, Debra L. Mason
5. Religion in the News Since 9/11, Stewart M. Hoover
6. Late Night Comedy as a Source of Religion News, Lynn Schofield Clark and Jill Dierberg
Section Two: The Media
7. Religion in Print Media, Doug Underwood
8. Religion News on the Radio, Peter Manseau
9. Religion in Commercial Television News, Michele Rosenthal
10. Religion News Online, Debra L. Mason
Section Three: Religions
11. American Catholicism and the Mass-Market Newsweekly, Peter Manseau
12. Mainline Protestants and News Narratives, J. Terry Todd
13. Orthodox Judaism and the News, Nora L. Rubel
14. Media Representations of 'Sunbelt' Evangelicalism, Darren Dochuk
15. The Legend of the Assassins in News Coverage of Muslims, Karim H. Karim
16. News coverage of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jana Reiss
17. News Coverage and Popular Press Reports of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Jane Naomi Iwamura
18. American Press Coverage of Buddhism from the 1870s to the Present, Nick Street
19. Wicca in the News, Sarah M. Pike
20. Media Coverage of Scientology in the United States, Carole M. Cusack
Section Four: Issues and Beats
21. Religion and Politics in Print, Mark Silk
22. Media Portrayals of the Moral Majority, John P. Bartkowski and Ashraf Alam
23. Evolution, Creationism and Objectivity in the Press, Lauri Lebo
24. Alternative Medicine in the Press, Steven Barrie-Anthony
25. News Coverage of Religion, Sexuality and AIDS, Diane Winston
26. Race and Racism in News Coverage of Religion, Marcia Alesan Dawkins
27. Football and Christianity in the News, Annie Blazer
28. The Celebrification of Religion in the Age of Infotainment, Kathryn Lofton
Section Five: International Coverage
29. Latin American Religion in the News, Magali do Nascimento Cunha
30. American Coverage of Immigration, Islam, and Identity in the UK and the Netherlands, Elizabeth Poole
31. American Newspaper Coverage of Islam in the Arab World, Philip Seib
32. American News Coverage of Chinese Uighurs, Dalia Hashad
33. Religion and Reporting in Africa, Anthea Butler
Section Six: The Religious Press
34. The Independent Catholic Press and Vatican II, Denise P. Ferguson
35. The Mainline Protestant Press, Mark Hulsether
36. The American Jewish Press, Jonathan D. Sarna
37. The Evangelical Press, Ken Waters
38. The Muslim Press in the United States, Faiza Hirji
39. The African American Religious Press, John M. Giggie
Index

About the Author

Diane Winston holds the Knight Chair in Media and Religion at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California.

Reviews

"Winston's book will surely, therefore, find a ready place on the academic bookshelf and will draw interest from both students of media and religion, academicians, even journalists and religious clerics." -- Yoel Cohen, Communication Research Trends
A great resource...Winston and her contributors are utterly persuasive in their contention that the currents of the media water are so strong that religion scholars need to be aware of them. --Religion in American History
"This excellent collection fills a large gap in reference works on the interdisciplinary subject matter of religion and the news media in the US. Editor Winston (Annenberg School, USC) is one of the leading figures at the intersection of religion and news media, and the range and depth of coverage she has assembled here is provocative and useful." --CHOICE
"The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the American News Media should be an essential reference work in journalism, American studies, media studies, and religious studies- suitable for undergraduates, scholars, and professionals. The volume offers a compendium of analyses, reflective metahistory, and inventive methodological approaches that will be helpful to a broad range of scholars." --The Journal of American History