From Jesus to the Internet : A History of Christianity and Media.

Intro -- From Jesus to the Internet -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- What's this book about? -- What do we mean by Christianity? -- What do we mean by media? -- Media and the historical development of Christianity -- Notes -- 1 In the Beginning -- The social and media context -- Jesus in his media context -- Remaking Jesus in speech and performance -- Notes -- 2 Making Jesus Gentile -- Context: the media world of the Roman Empire -- Early Christian writing -- Paul and letter writing -- The end of the beginning -- Notes -- 3 The Gentile Christian Communities -- The appeal of Christianity -- Multimedia communities -- Christian writings -- The written gospels -- The Acts of the Apostles -- The lives of the martyrs -- The reception and circulation of Christian writings -- Resistance to writing -- Notes -- 4 Men of Letters and Creation of "The Church" -- The Catholic-Orthodox brand -- Installing a hierarchical authority structure -- Building a Catholic‐Orthodox branded church identity -- Reducing difference -- Tertullian -- Cyprian -- Origen - the media magnate of Alexandria -- Writing out women -- Notes -- 5 Christianity and Empire -- Imperial patronage and imperial Christianity -- Councils, creeds, and canons -- Constructing time - Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History -- The scriptures as text and artifact -- Notes -- 6 The Latin Translation -- Latin roots -- Jerome (c. 342-420) -- Ambrose (c. 339-397) -- Augustine (354-430) -- After the fall -- Monasteries and manuscripts -- Written Latin and the consolidation of medieval Christendom -- Notes -- 7 Christianity in the East -- The Church of the East -- Islam -- Writing the voice -- Regulating the eyes -- Notes -- 8 Senses of the Middle Ages -- The medieval context -- Making time -- Seeing space -- Rituals and hearing -- Nice touch: relics, saints, and pilgrimage -- Notes.

9 The New Millennium -- Marketing the Crusades -- Scholasticism and universities -- Cathedrals -- Catholic reform -- The Inquisition -- Notes -- 10 Reformation -- Printing and its precursors -- Martin Luther -- John Calvin -- Reworking the Bible -- The changing sensory landscape -- Catholic responses -- Ignatius of Loyola -- Notes -- 11 The Modern World -- The legacy of the Reformation -- Catholic mission -- The impact of print -- Evangelical Revivalism -- Protestant mission -- Notes -- 12 Electrifying Sight and Sound -- The technologies of the audiovisual -- Christianity and the twentieth-century media world -- Mainline mediation -- The Evangelical Coalition -- Fundamentalism and Pentecostalism -- Notes -- 13 The Digital Era -- The empire of digital capitalism -- Digital practice -- Digital practice as immersive environment -- Social risks of digital practice -- Digital language -- Deinstitutionalization and new community formations -- Openness to enchantment and transcendence -- Global Pentecostalism -- Media and Christian sexual abuse -- Tradition and change -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Index -- EULA.

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