Description: The latter part of the twentieth century saw an explosion of new media that effected profound changes in human categories of communication. At the same time, a "return to religion" occurred on a global scale. The twenty-five contributors to this volume--including Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, Talal Asad, and James Siegel--confront the conceptual, analytical, and empirical difficulties involved in addressing the complex relationship between religion and media.
Review Quotes: "I cannot overestimate the importance of this book, which will become mandatory reading for all courses in media studies, histories of religion, anthropologies of modernity, cosmopolitics, the global order, and new forms of sociality. Reading it has been a source of rare intellectual satisfaction and aesthetic pleasure."--Rosalind Carmel Morris, Columbia University