{"product_id":"from-jesus-to-the-internet-isbn-9781118447383","title":"From Jesus to the Internet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Jesus to the Internet\u003c\/i\u003e examines Christianity as a mediated phenomenon, paying particular attention to how various forms of media have influenced and developed the Christian tradition over the centuries. It is the first systematic survey of this topic and the author provides those studying or interested in the intersection of religion and media with a lively and engaging chronological narrative. With insights into some of Christianity's most hotly debated contemporary issues, this book provides a much-needed historical basis for this interdisciplinary field.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat’s this book about? 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat do we mean by Christianity? 2\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat do we mean by media? 4\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMedia and the historical development of Christianity 7\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 In the Beginning 10\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe social and media context 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJesus in his media context 14\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRemaking Jesus in speech and performance 22\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Making Jesus Gentile 28\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContext: the media world of the Roman Empire 28\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarly Christian writing 30\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePaul and letter writing 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe end of the beginning 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 The Gentile Christian Communities 42\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe appeal of Christianity 42\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMultimedia communities 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristian writings 45\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe reception and circulation of Christian writings 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eResistance to writing 58\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Men of Letters and Creation of “The Church” 62\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Catholic]Orthodox brand 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTertullian 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCyprian 70\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOrigen – the media magnate of Alexandria 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWriting out women 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Christianity and Empire 80\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImperial patronage and imperial Christianity 80\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCouncils, creeds, and canons 84\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConstructing time – Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History 90\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe scriptures as text and artifact 93\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 The Latin Translation 99\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLatin roots 99\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAfter the fall 106\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMonasteries and manuscripts 110\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWritten Latin and the consolidation of medieval Christendom 117\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Christianity in the East 125\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Church of the East 125\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIslam 130\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWriting the voice 132\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRegulating the eyes 134\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 Senses of the Middle Ages 141\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe medieval context 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaking time 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeeing space 145\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRituals and hearing 150\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNice touch: relics, saints, and pilgrimage 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9 The New Millennium 162\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarketing the Crusades 163\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eScholasticism and universities 168\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCathedrals 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCatholic reform 175\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Inquisition 180\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10 Reformation 187\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePrinting and its precursors 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMartin Luther 191\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Calvin 195\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReworking the Bible 198\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe changing sensory landscape 200\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCatholic responses 207\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIgnatius of Loyola 209\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11 The Modern World 214\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe legacy of the Reformation 214\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCatholic mission 216\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe impact of print 219\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEvangelical Revivalism 223\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProtestant mission 232\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12 Electrifying Sight and Sound 237\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe technologies of the audiovisual 237\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChristianity and the twentieth]century media world 240\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMainline mediation 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Evangelical Coalition 246\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFundamentalism and Pentecostalism 254\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e13 The Digital Era 261\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe empire of digital capitalism 261\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDigital practice 264\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGlobal Pentecostalism 270\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMedia and Christian sexual abuse 276\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTradition and change 279\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion 285\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences 293\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 311\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is a book I've wanted to read for a long time, and I find it both enlightening and thought provoking in a positive sense. The book represents a way of writing the history of Christianity in a rather novel multi-perspective and contextualized manner. Technology, politics, economics, demographics, and scientific discoveries all play a role in how religion is transformed – but at the center of this transformation, according to Horsfield, is media.\" (\u003ci\u003eJournal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 November 2015)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Horsfield's compelling and nuanced scholarship of integration traces the evolution of Christianity from an oral Jewish movement in the 1st century through epochs dominated by written, printed, electronic, and now digital media to become the world's largest religious faith with 2.2 billion followers.\" (\u003ci\u003eJournalism \u0026amp; Mass Communication Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e 2016)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Horsfield\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Communication at RMIT University, Australia. From 1987-1996, he was Dean of the Uniting Church Theological Hall and Lecturer in Applied Theology in the United Faculty of Theology in Melbourne, Australia. His early study, \u003ci\u003eReligious Television: The American Experience\u003c\/i\u003e (2004) was influential in assessing the impact of the emerging phenomenon of televangelism in the U.S. From 1997-2005 he was a member of the International Study Commission on Media Religion and Culture. He has researched and published extensively in the area of the interaction of media and religion, with a particular focus on Christianity. He is the co-editor of several books, including \u003ci\u003eEmerging Research in Media, Religion and Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (2005) and \u003ci\u003eBelief in Media: Cultural Perspectives on Media and Christianity \u003c\/i\u003e(2004).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This ambitious, resourceful, and clearly written book makes the major contribution of showing how fundamentally integrated religion and media always have been throughout the history of Christianity. The power of media – from writing to print, from imagery, music, and architecture to radio, film, and television – has been to make accessible what Christians experience in their faith. Horsfield properly locates the study of media at the heart of the study of the religion.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eDAVID MORGAN, Duke University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Tracing the implications of the adoption of new media technologies into Christian modes of communication among believers and with the divine over a period of 2000 years, Peter Horsfield draws a fascinating and fresh picture of contestations, breaks, and reformations in the dynamic history of Christianity. This well-written, imaginative book does not only throw recent work on modern mass media and Christianity into historical relief, it also makes a convincing case for the fruitfulness of a media perspective to capture salient transition points that rearticulate the Christian tradition and reset its role and place in society.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eBIRGIT MEYER, Utrecht University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Jesus to the Internet\u003c\/i\u003e is the first systematic survey of the historical relationship between Christianity and media. Although many see the relationship between religion and media as a distinctly modern phenomenon, in this book the scholar Peter Horsfield examines Christianity through its history as a mediated phenomenon, showing how profoundly it has been shaped by the many media forms used in embodying and spreading its stories.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn a lively and engaging chronological narrative, the book demonstrates the ways in which Christianity’s beliefs, rituals, theological thought, institutional forms, economic views, and political systems have been conceptualized and developed over time as a result of its media practices. It takes a broad view of media, including communication technologies and industries as well as cultural and material practices. The narrative moves through all of the major periods in Christian history and includes coverage of oral cultures, the practices of Jesus, writing, printing, material practices, visual expressions, and the present digital era. With insights into some of Christianity’s most hotly debated contemporary issues, this ambitious and wide-ranging book provides an indispensable historical basis for this fast-developing interdisciplinary field.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Tracing the implications of the adoption of new media technologies into Christian modes of communication among believers and with the divine over a period of 2000 years, Peter Horsfield draws a fascinating and fresh picture of contestations, breaks and reformations in the dynamic history of Christianity. This well-written, imaginative book does not only throw recent work on modern mass media and Christianity into historical relief, it also makes a convincing case for the fruitfulness of a media perspective to capture salient transition points that rearticulate the Christian tradition and reset its role and place in society.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eBirgit Meyer, Utrecht University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This ambitious, resourceful, and clearly written book makes the major contribution of showing how fundamentally integrated religion and media always have been throughout the history of Christianity. The power of media—from writing to print, from imagery, music and architecture to radio, film, and television—has been to make accessible what Christians experience in their faith. Horsfield properly locates the study of media at the heart of the study of the religion.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eDavid Morgan, Duke University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989248524517,"sku":"NP9781118447383","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781118447383.jpg?v=1761783370","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/from-jesus-to-the-internet-isbn-9781118447383","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}