AP/HUMA 3827 3.00

Religion and Television

This course examines the role and representation of the religious on television. It introduces students to the vocabularies of Religious Studies and Media Studies, and critically explores the relationship between religion and television as aspects of contemporary popular culture. Distinguishing various television genres from kinds of cinema, the course analyzes the ways in which daily network and specialty channel programming, as well as video-recordings from Europe and North America, represent Aboriginal, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and other religious myths, histories, rituals and doctrines.