Televised redemption : Black religious media and racial empowerment /

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How Black Christians, Muslims, and Jews have used media to prove their equality, not only in the eyes of God but in society. The institutional structures of white supremacy--slavery, Jim Crow laws, convict leasing, and mass incarceration--require a commonsense belief that black people lack the moral...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rouse, Carolyn Moxley, 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : NYU Press, [2016]
Subjects:
African Americans > Religion.
Religion on television.
Television broadcasting > Religious aspects.
Television in religion > United States.
Noirs américains > Religion.
Religion à la télévision.
Télévision > Aspect religieux.
Télévision dans la religion > États-Unis.
RELIGION > Comparative Religion.
RELIGION > Essays.
RELIGION > Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
African Americans > Religion
Religion on television
Television broadcasting > Religious aspects
Television in religion
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Redemptive media histories
  • Black Christian redemption: contested possibilities
  • Racial redemption: language in Muslim media
  • Divine redemption: Hebrew Israelites and the saving of the world
  • Religious media and Black self-formation
  • Reimagined possibilities: prosperity and the journey to redemption
  • Race, Islam, and longings for inclusion: Muslim media and twenty-first-century redemption
  • Citizens as stewards: on the air, online, and in the community.

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