Narratives of healing in suffering: Religious education in media

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Theology and Religious Education

Document Type

Article

Source Title

Religious Education

Volume

108

Issue

3

First Page

263

Last Page

279

Publication Date

5-1-2013

Abstract

Working on the theological grounding of God's fellowship, this article identifies the manifestations within which the theology of divine nearness is appropriated in television narratives that revolve around issues of enslavement and healing in Philippine media. Second, it describes the conversion of this warm reception into patronage of the divine nearness responding to the human need for healing. This warm reception underscores the role of faith in the daily grind of life for an ordinary Christian viewer. This new space in media presents the merging of religion and media through narratives of healing in the context of human suffering. © 2013 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1080/00344087.2013.783360

Disciplines

Religion

Keywords

God—Omnipresence; Suffering—Religious aspects

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