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Religious Broadcasting in the Middle East
Khaled Hroub (Ed.)
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Description for Religious Broadcasting in the Middle East
Paperback. New media flows have sparked a boom of Muslim, Christian and Jewish religious channels in the Middle East. This is a close content analysis of the impact on religious broadcasting in the Middle East. It examines how the highly charged political and religious ferment in the Middle East plays out in the media Editor(s): Hroub, Khaled. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; APT; HRA; JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 213 x 141 x 24. Weight in Grams: 482.
Over the past decade or so religious broadcasting in the Middle East has been one of the chief beneficiaries of new, transnational media flows and the now commonplace availability of satellite broadcasting technology. Dozens of Muslim, Christian and Jewish religious channels have been established, advocating differing forms of religiosity and shaping public perceptions through their transmission of discussion programmes, preaching, proselytisation pure and simple, and guidelines about how best to live a pious life. Even mainstream leading news channels such as Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya have broadcast popular religious shows since their inception. Some of this programming is highly politicised, such ... Read more
Over the past decade or so religious broadcasting in the Middle East has been one of the chief beneficiaries of new, transnational media flows and the now commonplace availability of satellite broadcasting technology. Dozens of Muslim, Christian and Jewish religious channels have been established, advocating differing forms of religiosity and shaping public perceptions through their transmission of discussion programmes, preaching, proselytisation pure and simple, and guidelines about how best to live a pious life. Even mainstream leading news channels such as Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya have broadcast popular religious shows since their inception. Some of this programming is highly politicised, such ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849041331
SKU
V9781849041331
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About Khaled Hroub (Ed.)
Khaled Hroub is Director of the Arab Media Project at Cambridge University.
Reviews for Religious Broadcasting in the Middle East
'Religious Broadcasting in the Middle East is a groundbreaking volume which will soon establish itself as a seminal text in Arab media and cultural studies. Its thirteen chapters cover a wide geography and contextualise religious broadcasting in the Middle East in a conjunctional and interdisciplinary fashion, providing critical, nuanced and empirically based analyses on the subject. This is a much ... Read more