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The Center for Religion and Media at New York University is one of ten Centers of Excellence funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts from 2003–2007. The Center continues with an endowment from NYU to stimulate innovative research and teaching in the interdisciplinary study of religion. The Center seeks to develop interdisciplinary, cross-cultural knowledge of how religious practices and ideas are shaped and spread through a variety of media. It provides a space for scholarly endeavor, a stage for public educational events and an electronic interface with scholars, journalists and the public through its innovative web journal,The Revealer: A Daily Review of Religion and the Press, edited by religion scholar and journalist Jeff Sharlet. While this project was conceived before September 11, that event and its aftermath have dramatized the need for understanding the spread of religious ideas and practices through a variety of media. The Center is a joint project of the Religious Studies Program (Angela Zito, Director) and the Center for Media, Culture, and History, (Faye Ginsburg, Director, Barbara Abrash, Director of Public Programming). Jeff Sharlet is the editor of the Center’s innovative web journal, The Revealer: A Daily Review of Religion and the Press. The Center started officially in May 2003. In the summer of 2003,…
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Angela Zito Co-Director In 1979, just as the Cultural Revolution was ending, Angela Zito spent three years in Beijing doing historical research on the social and political importance of rituals performed by the emperor. During that time, she also worked as dayside copy editor for The China Daily, China’s English-language newspaper, and then as a “newstaster” for the Reuter’s bureau. Having received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, she now teaches anthropology and religious studies at NYU, where she has also co-directs the Center for Religion and Media. Her longest-standing scholarly interest remains the relationship between the psyche and the soma—how do human beings (mammals with imaginations!) deal with their imaginative capacities, make worlds and live with themselves and one another? How do we mediate these relationships, starting with the gestures of the body and the intricacies of language? People experience the world through their bodies in social practice: diet, sex and gender mores, the physical environment, both built and non-built, rhythms of household life and intimate relationships, communal ritual, work, art. Human life is organized, often at psychic and social remove, through embodied subjectification. The human person becomes both object and subject through discipline, training and practice. Much of…
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Selected Links Links The Pew Charitable Trusts The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life Related Projects The Revealer: NYU Department of Journalism and the Center for Religion and Media’s online publication, including articles, forum, and daily blog. MODIYA Project: Jews/Media/Religion A resource for researchers, teachers, and students produced by the Working Group on Jews, Media and Religion at the Center for Religion and Media. Virtual Casebook: September 9-11 and after Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics: Spectacles of Religiosity Other Pew Centers of Excellence Center for Religion & American Life (Yale University) Center for Religion and Civic Culture (University of Southern California) Center for Religion, the Professions and the Public (University of Missouri-Columbia) Center for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society (University of Pennsylvania) Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Religion (Emory University) Center for the Study of Religion (Princeton University) Center on Religion and Democracy (University of Virginia) Erasmus Institute (University of Notre Dame) Institute on Religion and World Affairs (Boston University) Religion and Media resources supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts religionwriters.com: Website of the Religion Newswriters Association. Religion & Ethics Newsweekly: A production of Channel 13/WNET New York, hosted by veteran journalist Bob Abernethy. Speaking…
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