Ways of reading as religious power in print globalization

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ID2469280
AuthorsThomas G Kirsch (0000-0002-6521-4128, Wittenberg University, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume34
Issue3
Pages509-520
Publication date2007-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Ethnologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/ae.2007.34.3.509
OpenAlexW2038907131
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited39

In this article, I address issues of power with regard to religious print media distributed worldwide. I show that mission societies seek to ensure a homogenous interpretation of their publications by making them "obligatory passage points" for socioreligious advancement and standardizing literacy practices. Once successfully established, networks created through religious print media evolve as a twofold process in which the construction of power by media distributors and their audiences' seeking of empowerment form an integrated whole. In this trajectory, literacy practices bridge local and global realms by enabling extensive religious networking based on the shared use of print media

Empowerment · Globalization · Interpretation (philosophy · Literacy · Media literacy · Media studies · Newspaper · Political science · Power (physics · Print media · Public relations · Reading (process · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Computer Science · Law · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development

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