Proactive Ministry in a Media Culture
EL4515 / Spring 2008
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6 to 9pm in NW231
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28 April 2008 / Religion and Violence in Mediated Cultures
How ought we to be thinking about the entwined, interwoven roots of violence within religion? How do we think about religion and violence in the same spaces? Given what we’ve been saying about news, and the shaping of reality, how does that critique affect how we think about religion and violence?
Please watch the entire lecture on this topic by James Carroll that is available at the Trinity Institute site.
Helpful resources include: TBA.
Additional reading you might enjoy:
Mitchell, Jolyon. (2007) Media Violence and Christian Ethics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Tanner, K. (1997) "Commonalities in Christian practice," pp. 120-155, and “Diversity and creativity,” pp. 156-191, in Theories of Culture: A New Agenda for Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress Press.