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100 1 $aSilk, Mark.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80075078
245 10 $aUnsecular media :$bmaking news of religion in America /$cMark Silk.
260 $aUrbana :$bUniversity of Illinois Press,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $axiii, 181 pages ;$c24 cm.
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490 1 $aPublic expressions of religion in America
500 $aIncludes index.
520 $aUnsecular Media is the first comprehensive description and analysis of how the American news media cover religion. A working journalist as well as a historian of religion, Mark Silk explores the inherent tensions between religion and the news media and traces the ups and downs of religious news coverage from Benjamin Franklin to David Koresh.
520 8 $aChanging views of Americans' religious commitment have led to an image of the news media as implacably secularist. But Silk examines contemporary news coverage and concludes that, rather than reflecting a secular bias, contemporary media accounts express religion-based values that most Americans share.
520 8 $aThose values, Silk shows, are embodied in moral formulas, or topoi, that mark out the territory religion occupies in journalistic discourse. The formulas - good works, tolerance, hypocrisy, false prophecy, inclusion, supernatural belief, and spiritual decline - make the huge variety of American religious life morally comprehensible to a mass audience.
520 8 $aIn demonstrating their usefulness and shortcomings, Silk points the way toward a less judgmental and more pluralistic approach to the coverage of religion.
650 0 $aJournalism, Religious$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aMass media in religion$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aMass media$xReligious aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85081872
651 0 $aUnited States$xReligion$y1960-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140504
830 0 $aPublic expressions of religion in America.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93052966
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