Mediation

Abstract

This chapter examines the media flows which shaped the Spiritscape of charismatic renewal in the Anglo-world, and the American, British, and Commonwealth ‘service agencies’ responsible for this mediation. The translocal exchange of charismatic texts, sounds and images, and charismatic renewal, it is argued, is an exemplar of what David Morgan calls ‘mediation as religion’. The chapter addresses the ways in which charismatics understood the Spirit to work symbiotically with media technologies. However, while media made a powerful contribution to the convergence of the charismatic imagination, it pointed also towards the internal diversity of renewal and the pluralities and contestations which could result.