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Autor/in | Feller, Gavin |
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Titel | Sacralising signals for the institution and the individual: KZN and the LDS church's approach to radio as a new medium. |
Quelle | In: Culture and religion, (2015) 3, S.327
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Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 1475-5610 |
DOI | 10.1080/14755610.2015.1083456 |
Schlagwörter | Religion; Radio; Media; Discourse; LDS; Mormon; Communication; Discourse analysis; Religious organizations |
Abstract | This study examines LDS Church discourse about radio to better understand the religion's adoption of the medium during its formative years, namely 1922-1927. Steve Wurtzler's transcription-signification lens is connected to LDS belief in individual and institutional revelation in order to explore the Church's hopes and fears surrounding radio as a new communication medium. LDS leaders used radio technology discursively as a metaphor for communicating with God, as a way to explain his existence and power, and as a means for reconciling science and religion. This discourse worked effectively to balance tensions between hierarchical control and individual agency by establishing radio as a sacred and powerful means of communication and a blessing for all within the religious community. |
Erfasst von | OLC |
Update | 2022/1/02 |