Church Newspaper Readership and Faith Community Integration

Imagined commodities? Analyzing local identity and place in American community newspaper website banners

“…Diasporic and immigrant communities, for example, have demonstrated common cultural heritage and bonds despite dislocation across a number of national and practical boundaries (Lin et al, 2010; Shukla, 2003). Despite having a highly visible physical anchor, church groups and ‘faith communities’ tend to be imagined rather broadly (Cannon, 2007), and the O. J. Simpson trial of the 1990s ignited narratives of both traditional nationalism and modern crime in communities with absolutely no connection to the case (Silberstein, 2003). North America can also be considered not simply as a collection of a few nations, but a network of cultural nations united along ideological bonds, population trends, history and language (Garreau, 1982; Woodard, 2011).…”

Who Do You Say That I Am? A History of How Religion Communicators Have Often Avoided “Public Relations”

“…That change was one reason the council was formed. Faith groups needed to find new ways to reach broader publics (Cannon, 2007;Dugan et al, 1979;Lamme, 2014b).…”

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“…Although the discipline of media and religion has existed for thirty years, the specific subject of the role of information sources has received little attention, in particular among religious clergy. Cannon (2007) examined church newspaper readership as a factor in the functioning of a faith community. Armfield & Holdbert (2003) examined religiousity as a factor in Internet use.…”