Unsecular Media: MAKING NEWS OF RELIGION IN AMERICA (Public Express Religion America) - Softcover

Silk, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252067428 ISBN 13: 9780252067426

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1998

Synopsis

Writing in the New York Times Magazine, Max Frankel characterized Unsecular Media as a book that "leaves you thinking about the saintly role that religion has acquired in our allegedly irreligious
media."
Mark Silk's book is the first to offer a comprehensive description and
analysis of how American news media cover religion.
 

About this title

About the Author:

Mark Silk, a staff writer with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, reaches religion and the media at Emory University and is a member of the American Academy of Religion's Ad Hoc Committee for the Public Understanding of Religion. He is the author of Spiritual Politics: Religion and America since World War II and coauthor of The American Establishment.
 

Review:

"A fresh interpretation of religious news coverage... Religion ordinarily gets an easy ride, says Silk, because the American public by and large favors religiousness. The press either reflects that favorable view or, with an eye to the market, caters to it... Silk is onto something. He is even likely to have a long-term if subtle effect on religious coverage in the secular press." -- Martin Marty, Christian Century

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0252067428
• ISBN 13: 9780252067426
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200