Background: A public health approach to palliative care supports community-dwelling adults with advanced illness. A better understanding of successful community-based palliative care programmes and partnerships is needed to expand community-based services for ageing populations. Aims: This study describes two organisations in two different countries that provide health and social services to community-dwelling adults with advanced illness. Methods: Unstructured key-informant interviews and observational data were collected at the Christian Medical College's College of Nursing Community Health Programme (Vellore, India) and at Phinney Neighborhood Association Village (Seattle, Washington, USA). Findings: College of Nursing Community Health Programme nurses work with volunteer community health workers to identify and provide client-focused support to ensure quality-of-life. The Phinney Neighborhood Association Village is a volunteer-led organisation that provides social support. Both serve community-dwelling adults with advanced illness. Conclusion: Partnerships between healthcare organisations and community volunteers support a public health approach to community-based palliative care.

Attempts to understand contemporary religious practice, and its associated communities and identities, must take into consideration the way that these phenomena exist in both virtual and physical spaces, as well as the way that, in some instances, religion bridges or erases this dichotomy. The approach here focuses on those forms of religious practice that do not fit easily into one or the other type of space. Starting with existing discussions of ethnographic methodologies for studying religious practice and the growing literature on how to study "digital religion", we examine the methodological needs for studying "third spaces", the hybrid, in-between spaces of religious practice. The model presented here is one of simultaneous and collaborative ethnography that extends shared methods across the virtual and the actual dimensions as the most productive approach to this type of research. Using tailored research methods and techniques within this approach offers the opportunity to consider ways in which behaviors, interactions, and speech acts that happen within this event are continuous or discontinuous with each other. It also offers insight into the dynamics of "shared experience" and how perspectives are or are not shared within these multiple dimensions. OPEN ACCESSReligions 2015, 6 989

Findings from in-depth interviews with 19 Evangelical Protestant men regarding their ideas about masculinity, media, and religion are reported. The authors propose a critical test of a neoconservative view which laments a modern ''crisis of masculinity'' and which posits media as a villain in this crisis and religion, particularly conservative religion, as the savior.The study pursues a line of inquiry suggested by D. Gauntlett (2002) andS. M. Hoover (2006) with the hope of developing clearer ideas of how men make gendered narratives of self-understanding and presentation out of their media lives. These interviews contradicted the neoconservative claims, finding that media plays constructive roles in these men's senses of self in both masculine and religious terms.

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This essay explores the relationship between media form and tourist imaginations of Sedona, AZ, USA. In particular, it examines the ways in which a pervasive narrative form – melodrama – maps onto New Age tourists’ expectations and experiences. This essay builds on Crouch et al.’s (2005a) notions of media and tourist imaginations and posits that in the case of New Age tourism in Sedona, the tourist imagination is melodramatic. The position in this paper forwards three conceptual ideas. First, conversations about the intersections between media and tourism should extend beyond the dominant focus on media content to questions of the influence of media narrative forms. Second, conversations about media and tourist imaginations should not necessarily be thought of in binary ways, even as ideal types. Third, conversations about media and tourism need to better consider how tourism is embedded in a complex, layered media environment.