‘Big stuff in a beautiful way with interesting people’: The spiritual discourse in UK religious television

Noonan, Caitriona

doi:10.1177/1367549411419975

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“…Interestingly, the metaphor of journey appears increasingly in popular culture, especially in reality television. As Caitriona Noonan (, p. 730) writes, ‘individuals are tasked with managing their own path to personal growth and moral development, the ultimate goal of which is to achieve the idealized self’. Noonan focuses on ‘religious television’, but the journey metaphor is also evident in popular programmes such as Masterchef , The Biggest Loser and American/Australian/New Zealand Idol .…”

Section: Ocd As Journeymentioning

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Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD): Gendered metaphors, blogs and online forums

Campbell

Longhurst

2013

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In order to understand social recovery from mental illness, it is important to examine the role played by social space, including virtual space. This article examined blogs and online forums for people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). In particular, it addressed gender differences in the metaphors used by men and women in these virtual spaces. Empirical data illustrated that, in general, women are more likely to frame their experiences of OCD as a journey, whereas men are more likely to frame them as a battle. Use of these different metaphors has potential implications for social recovery.

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Section: Ocd As Journeymentioning

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Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD): Gendered metaphors, blogs and online forums

Campbell

Longhurst

2013

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“…(Heelas and Woodhead, 2005: 1; see also Deller, 2012;Noonan, 2011;Thomas, 2011) Interestingly, despite seeming the least 'religious' in its title and presentation, The Big Silence (which presents itself as offering silence as an antidote to the noise of modern life), probably contains more explicit references to religion, God, Christianity and Jesus Christ in its narration than the other programmes' voiceovers. Perhaps this is because the voiceover -a tool that is used as the authoritative 'voice' of a programme -in this instance is performed by Father Christopher, a monk, rather than a voiceover artist or producer, as in the other programmes.…”

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“…While they were not explicitly marketed as ‘reality’ (Thomas, 2011: 560) they were widely described in this way (e.g. Deans, 2005; Noonan, 2011) and they share common features of the genre, such as placing participants in unusual situations where they meet new people, follow rules and complete tasks, as well as containing a series of conflicts and personal ‘journeys’ leading to some form of transformation in the final episode (see Bratich, 2007; Hawkins, 2001; Hill, 2005; Lewis, 2007), which is why I use the term to describe them.…”

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Religion as makeover: Reality, lifestyle and spiritual transformation

Deller

2014

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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In this article I discuss the relationship between religion, spirituality and processes of makeover and transformation as presented in a number of British reality television shows. Programmes including The Monastery, The Convent and Make Me a Muslim placed participants in scenarios where they experimented with adopting religious or spiritual practices as part of their journey of self-transformation. I argue that the nature of transformation in these programmes is in line with standard reality and makeover television practices. However, it also makes a claim to be more 'authentic' than these because of its unfolding within the more traditional environs of religious communities from which makeover culture's narratives of transgression, repentance and salvation were originally derived.The trailer shows women in what appears to be a spa setting, carrying baskets with mobile phones and other trappings of 21st-century life to be stashed away. The voiceover tells us that 'Modern life is all me, me, me, quick fix cures and instant happiness. Follow four women as they search for deeper meanings.' The women in the trailer are shown having spa treatments and relaxing as signs point to 'products' including 'conscience cleanser', 'spiritual scrub' and 'faith mask'. The door to this 'spa' bears the slogan 'All over Soul Massage'. Then the punchline -this is no 'ordinary' spa treatment: 'For forty

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“…These studies, however, do not provide enough evidence of emotional labour from the perspectives of religious television. Most studies on religious television have either underscored issues relating to religious (Christian) broadcasting (Abelman & Hoover, 1990;Noonan, 2011Noonan, , 2013Hollingshead, 2002), or the representation of Islam and Muslims in the media (Knott, Pool & Taira, 2013). Others, either focused on television genres from different geopolitical backgrounds that include Arab reality television (Kraidy, MEDIA SOCIOLOGY AND CULTURAL STUDIES APPROACHES TO CREATIVE LABOUR This section is inclusive of two sets of literature that are drawn from media sociology and cultural studies approaches to creative labour.…”

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-ISSN: 2289-1528 https://doi.org/10.17576/JKMJC-2019-3502-23 Doing Emotional Labour in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR): Is Religious Television a Humanised Workplace?

Karim¹

2019

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This article examines the quality of work life in Islam-based television by focusing on the emotional wellbeing of television production workers. It identifies the extent of religious television a humanised workplace at the turn of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). The study draws upon literature from media sociology and cultural studies approaches to creative labour in two folds by addressing the implications of 4IR for 1) human (television production workers), including such concepts as human emotional and spiritual intelligence, and emotional labour, and 2) for the quality of work life in television production, through the discourses of human-robot interaction (HRI) and humanised workplace. The analyses of an ethnographic data gathered from television stations in London and Kuala Lumpur indicate that television production work demands a different degree of emotional labour, depending on their professional roles, tasks, and the genre that they produced. The study concludes that doing emotional labour in the 4IR requires television production workers to renegotiate their professional roles not only with other humans, but also with robots/machines as robots/machines have increasingly taken over their production tasks. Such forms of negotiation and the rise of robots/machines resulting from the 4IR do affect the quality of work life in religious television.

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‘Big stuff in a beautiful way with interesting people’: The spiritual discourse in UK religious television

Cited by 7 publications

References 14 publications

Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD): Gendered metaphors, blogs and online forums

Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD): Gendered metaphors, blogs and online forums

Religion as makeover: Reality, lifestyle and spiritual transformation

-ISSN: 2289-1528 https://doi.org/10.17576/JKMJC-2019-3502-23 Doing Emotional Labour in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR): Is Religious Television a Humanised Workplace?

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