Christianity and the Mass Media in America: Towards a Democratic Accommodation.(Book Review)

From: Journal of Church and State | Date: September 22, 2005| Author: Duke, Roger O. | Copyright information

Christianity and the Mass Media in America: Towards a Democratic Accommodation. By Quentin J. Schultze. East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University Press, 2003. 512 pp. $84.95.

Concerning Quentin J. Schultze's Christianity and the Mass Media in America, M. R. Grant observed that, "Schultze demonstrates how religion and the media in America have borrowed each other's rhetoric. In the process, they have also helped to keep each other honest, pointing out respective foib...

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