Technical Change and Economic Growth

Religion is living culture. Even in modern liberal societies, religion continues to play a role in shaping political ideologies, institutional practices, communities of interest, ways of life and social identities. Mediating Faiths brings together scholars working across a range of fields, including cultural studies, media, sociology, anthropology, cultural theory and religious studies, in order to facilitate greater understanding of recent transformations of religion. Contributors illustrate how religion continues to be responsive to the very latest social and cultural developments in the environments in which it exists. Thematic sections, each with an editorial introduction, raise fundamental questions concerning new media and religious expression, religious youth cultures, the links between spirituality, personal development and consumer culture, and contemporary intersections of religion and politics. Together the chapters demonstrate how belief in the superempirical is negotiated relative to secular concerns in the twenty first century.