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Church, market, and media : a discursive approach to institutional religious change / Marcus Moberg.

By: Moberg, Marcus, 1978- [author.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: viii, 202 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781474280570; 1474280579Subject(s): Suomen evankelis-luterilainen kirkko | Church renewal | Change -- Religious aspects -- Christianity | Church and the press | Church marketingLOC classification: BV600.3 | .M63 2017Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- The study of religion and markets -- The study of religion and media -- A discursive approach to social and institutional religious change -- Main focus and material -- Structure of the book -- Part 1. Theoretical and analytic framework. Discourse analysis and the study of social and religious change -- Discourse analysis as method -- The discourse of social institutions and organizations -- The technologization of discourse -- Concluding remoaks -- Marketization, mediatization, and institutional religious change. Marketization and social, cultural and religious change -- Mediatization and social, cultural, and religious change -- Part 2. Application and cases. The marketization and mediatization of institutional Christian Protestant churches -- Mainline Protestant churches in the United States -- The Church of England in Britain: "resourcing the future" -- The Nordic context: civil service and "effectiveness" -- Discourse and beyond: marketization and mediatization within the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland -- The current state of the ELCF -- Marketization discourse within the ELCF -- Beyond discourse: organizational mediatization within the ELCF.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- The study of religion and markets -- The study of religion and media -- A discursive approach to social and institutional religious change -- Main focus and material -- Structure of the book -- Part 1. Theoretical and analytic framework. Discourse analysis and the study of social and religious change -- Discourse analysis as method -- The discourse of social institutions and organizations -- The technologization of discourse -- Concluding remoaks -- Marketization, mediatization, and institutional religious change. Marketization and social, cultural and religious change -- Mediatization and social, cultural, and religious change -- Part 2. Application and cases. The marketization and mediatization of institutional Christian Protestant churches -- Mainline Protestant churches in the United States -- The Church of England in Britain: "resourcing the future" -- The Nordic context: civil service and "effectiveness" -- Discourse and beyond: marketization and mediatization within the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland -- The current state of the ELCF -- Marketization discourse within the ELCF -- Beyond discourse: organizational mediatization within the ELCF.

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