Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere. . . one of those rare edited volumes that advances social thought as it provides substantive religious and media ethnography that is good to think with. Dale Eickelman, Dartmouth College Increasingly, Pentecostal, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, and indigenous movements all over the world make use of a great variety of modern mass media, both print and electronic. Through religious booklets, radio broadcasts, cassette tapes, television talk shows,