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Rajat Publications Media and Religion by Rajesh Bahadur
Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture focuses on issues such as the increasing autonomy and individualized practice of religion, the surge of media and media-based icons that are often imbued with religious qualities. The media have come to play an ever more prominent role in social and cultural life since the emergence of the so-called "mass media" in the late nineteenth century. A phenomenology of media and religion in the twenty-first century would see media and religion in a number of different relationships. Media culture and society understand the new centrality of media and cultural forms to the experience of social life in the contemporary world.