Eternity in the Ether
A Mormon Media History
$72.83
- Paperback
212 pages
- Release Date
2 January 2023
Summary
Mass media and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints evolved alongside each other, and communications technology became a fundamental part of the Church’s institutions and communities. Gavin Feller investigates the impact of radio, television, and the internet on Mormonism and what it tells us about new media’s integration into American life. The Church wrestled with the promise of new media to help implement its vision of Zion. But it also had to contend with threat that media pose…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780252086854 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0252086856 |
| Author: | Gavin Feller |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press |
| Imprint: | University of Illinois Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 212 |
| Release Date: | 2 January 2023 |
| Weight: | 286g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 18mm |
| Series: | The History of Media and Communication |
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“Focusing on the agency of a single institution, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Feller takes us beyond simple assumptions about representation and ideology to show us in finely grained detail how exactly Mormon theology, cosmological vision, community, bureaucratic authority, and public image work together–and sometimes, against one another–in an ongoing history of innovation, strategic management, struggle, and imagination. At each step, Eternity in the Ether sheds light on a remarkable terrain of creative energies, practical demands, and political possibilities, inviting us to see Mormonism in new ways, and by extension, to revisit many assumptions about how media work in the world. Essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between religion and media.”–Jeremy Stolow, author of Deus in Machina: Religion, Technology, and the Things in Between “Gavin Feller’s Eternity in the Ether: A Mormon Media History is an interesting book that brings together various academic disciplines and fields together – weaving communication studies, religion, and history into one manuscript.” –Association of Mormon Letters
About The Author
Gavin Feller
Gavin Feller is an independent scholar.
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