Moral Atmospheres - Islam and Media in a Pakistani Marketplace

Timothy P. A. Cooper examines the diverse and coexisting moral atmospheres that surround media in Pakistan, tracing public understandings of ethical life and showing how they influence economic behavior.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on the Text
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Introduction
1. Cinema Itself: Film and Faith in Pakistan
2. Public Demand: Interpreting Atmospheres
3. Feeling the Threshold
4. Atmospheres of Moral Exception
5. The Absorptive City: Hall Road’s Urban Form
6. The Master Copy: Atmospheres in Circulation
Epilogue
Glossary of Frequently Used Terms
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Timothy P. A. Cooper is an anthropologist and ethnographic filmmaker in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.

Zusammenfassung

Timothy P. A. Cooper examines the diverse and coexisting moral atmospheres that surround media in Pakistan, tracing public understandings of ethical life and showing how they influence economic behavior.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Timothy P. A. Cooper
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 06.02.2024
• EAN: 9780231210416
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21041-6
• Seiten: 288
• Serie: Religion, Culture, and Public Life
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Weitere Religionen; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Islam, Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, RELIGION / Islam / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, RELIGION / Ethics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Islamic Studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Religious ethics, Asian History, Indian sub-continent, South Asia (Indian sub-continent), Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY / Asia / South / General, religion; social science