@inbook {153, title = {Holy Pirates: Media, Ethnicity and Religious Renewal in Israel}, booktitle = {Religion, Media \& the Public Sphere}, year = {2006}, pages = {91-111}, publisher = {Indiana University Press}, organization = {Indiana University Press}, address = {Bloomington, IN}, abstract = {"... one of those rare edited volumes that advances social thought as it provides substantive religious and media ethnography that is good to think with."{\textemdash}Dale Eickelman, Dartmouth College Increasingly, Pentecostal, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, and indigenous movements all over the world make use of a great variety of modern mass media, both print and electronic. Through religious booklets, radio broadcasts, cassette tapes, television talk-shows, soap operas, and documentary film these movements address multiple publics and offer alternative forms of belonging, often in competition with the postcolonial nation-state. How have new practices of religious mediation transformed the public sphere? How has the adoption of new media impinged on religious experiences and notions of religious authority? Has neo-liberalism engendered a blurring of the boundaries between religion and entertainment? The vivid essays in this interdisciplinary volume combine rich empirical detail with theoretical reflection, offering new perspectives on a variety of media, genres, and religions.}, url = {http://books.google.com/books?id=bU7eHrQyHsUC\&pg=PA91\&lpg=PA91\&dq=Holy+Pirates:+Media,+Ethnicity+and+Religious+Renewal+in+Israel\&source=bl\&ots=iorCcB4re4\&sig=YbbmrHglY9hfIwlAzCTS6ZvayEU\&hl=en\&ei=HnuwTpffNselsAKn2cW9AQ\&sa=X\&oi=book_result\&ct=result\&resnum=}, author = {Lehamann, David and Siebzehner, Batia} }