Sex, Religion, Media

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Each chapter in this volume explores intersections of sex, religion and media in our society with an interdisciplinary cast of contributors examining a wide variety of themes. These include entertainment producers' roles in disseminating sexual and religious content, news coverage of stories about sex and religion; religious conservatives' efforts to influence media coverage of sex and values and how religious consumers are influenced by and react to sexual content in the media.

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"A rich collection that does much to lay out the range of work in the field. Claussen demonstrates a keen sense for the issues in this collection that includes a broad cross-section of method, theory, and writing style. Well structured, engaging, entertaining, and thought provoking. It would serve [as] a substantive reader on the topic for an academic audience or as a text for senior/graduate level students in an appropriate course." - Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

Author Bio

Dane S. Claussen is associate professor and graduate program director in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at Point Park College.