Book chapter
Communications
The Routledge Handbook of Religion and American Culture, pp.132-146
Routledge handbooks in religion, Routledge
2025
DOI: 10.4324/9781003357353-11
Abstract
This chapter takes up two forms of communications to examine the influence of religion on material and infrastructural media and vice-versa: cables (in the telegraph and the internet) and canals. These cases illuminate the role of religion as a critical facet of communications infrastructure and how communications has shaped religion from their overt mutual involvement in the nineteenth century to the regular reactivation of this less visible relationship today. The first case maps the religious entanglement with cabled networks in land and water; networks materialize religion in ways that defy the distinction between past and present and between technology and environment. The second case looks to canals to examine environment-in this case, water-as an elemental archive of the durable relationship of religion and communications.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Communications
- Creators
- Jenna Supp-Montgomerie
- Contributors
- Chad E. Seales (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- The Routledge Handbook of Religion and American Culture, pp.132-146
- Series
- Routledge handbooks in religion
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781003357353-11
- Publisher
- Routledge; Abingdom, Oxon
- Alternative title
- Communications
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2025
- Academic Unit
- Classics and Religious Studies; Communication Studies
- Record Identifier
- 9984790996902771
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