Contemporary Christian Culture: Messages, Missions, and Dilemmas

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Contemporary Christian Culture: Messages, Missions, and Dilemmas studies Christian media, its meanings, and its impact on social perceptions and lived experiences in a multicultural context and from within a communication framework. This interdisciplinary collection expands the dialogue surrounding race, culture, and Christian messages and provides a valuable resource for researchers, educators, and church practitioners who are interested in understanding how racial and cultural identity are impacted by religious media products.

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Contemporary Christian Culture: Messages, Missions and Dilemmas is an important volume particularly at a time when our nation continues to wrestle with historical and contemporary implications of its original sin of racism. Omotayo Banjo and Kesha Morant Williams along with a robust group of scholars critically examine mediated messages and media ownership, production, and dissemination practices that illustrate a fluid understanding of race and the Christian faith. This volume brilliantly engages contemporary Christian discourses of race and diversity within the post-Obama and Black Lives Matter era in a meaningful way that makes it a must read for scholars, religious leaders, and students. -- Christopher A. House, Ithaca College
Drs. Banjo and Williams have created a series of impressive works that use scholarship to explore the ways that Christians reconcile the scripture that charges them/us to be in this world, but not of it. The United States is a country whose perceived Christian identity is currently being challenged due to its current tumultuous political climate. The difficult questions forwarded in each chapter challenge the reader to understand how various situations and circumstances prompt Christians to confront situations that test the very essence of the ethics, morality, and humanity tied to Christian ideology. This is a great resource addressing a very important social issue that has persisted through the ages. -- Tina M. Harris, University of Georgia

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Omotayo Banjo is associate professor of communication at the University of Cincinnati. Kesha Morant Williams is associate professor of communication arts and sciences at Penn State University, Berks.