Godwatching : viewers, religion and television
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Godwatching : viewers, religion and television
（Television research monograph）
Libbey, 1988
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ISBN 9780861961986
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How do people see the role of religion in modern society, what is the place of religious broadcasting and what do its audience feel about it? This book pulls together a variety of research studies in order to look at these broad issues, charting the changes and constancies in public attitudes.
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pbk ISBN 9780861961993
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From television's earliest days in Britain, religious programming has featured as a basic element of public service broadcasting on all channels. This was, and is, a recognition of the fact that religion in its many forms plays an important role in British society, be it at the level of formal, organized worship or at the level of general social mores and beliefs. However, relatively little is objectively known about the religious climate in Britain in the late 1980s. Are people less religiously-minded than they were? Are religious beliefs widely held or not? How do people see the role of religion in modern society? And what is the place of religious broadcasting, and what do its audiences feel about it? This monograph pulls together a variety of research studies in order to look at these broad issues, charting the changes and constancies in the patterns of public attitudes and beliefs. Comparisons between major in-depth surveys from the 1960s and 1980s show that there has been a change, with overall "religiousness" declining, while the perceived unimportance of some religious and moral under-pinning of society has remained largely unchanged.
Large proportions of the British population continue to place great importance on religion. There is also clear evidence that religious broadcasting has a definite role to play, and that viewing religious programming is not necessarily the minority activity that is sometimes suggested.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 The role of religion on television: aims of religious broadcasting - the broadcasters
- aims of religious broadcasting - the public. Part 2 The audience: the size of the audience
- who watches religious television?
- audience appreciation and attention. Part 3 Beliefs, attitudes and values: religious affiliation
- religiosity
- belief in God
- belief in Jesus Christ
- prayer
- the Bible
- ethics and the importance of religion
- life aims
- spiritual climate
- problems and anxieties
- loneliness
- patterns and changes of belief
- religious development
- religious experiences. Part 4 Religious television: what is religious televison?
- the perceived audience for religious television
- the presentation of religion on television
- reasons for not watching religious television
- television and religion in Northern Ireland. Part 5 The future for religious television. Technical appendix: references and details of surveys
- the religiosity scale.
by "Nielsen BookData"
