Michael Austin’s research while affiliated with Newman University and other places

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Publications (1)

Peculiar Portrayals: Mormons on the Page, stage, and Screen
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January 2010

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Mark T Decker

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Michael Austin

In a time when Mormons appear to have larger roles in everything from political conflict to television shows and when Mormon-related topics seem to show up more frequently in the news, eight scholars take a close look at Mormonism in popular media: film, television, theater, and books. Some contributors examine specific works, including the Tony-winning play Angels in America, the hit TV series Big Love, and the bestselling books Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith and The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint. Others consider the phenomena of Mormon cinema and Mormon fiction; the use of the Mormon missionary as a stock character in films; and the noticeably prominent presence of Mormons in reality television shows.

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... If journalism studies scholarship in this area argues one thing uniformly, it's that much religion reporting tends to be quite poor-a result in particular of the lack of religious literacy among U.S. journalists (Hoover, 1998). The misunderstood intentions from the evangelical rally from the introduction represents a not-uncommon situation in reporting on Muslims (Munnick, 2017;Said, 1981), Mormons (Decker & Austin, 2010;Scott, 2005), and evangelical Christianity (Haskell, 2007;Hardy, 2007). The most egregious examples of misunderstood intentions often occur where no religion specialists are involved as has been shown to be the case in sports (Ferrucci & Perreault, 2018) and gaming (Perreault, 2021). ...

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Covering Religion: Field Insurgency in U.S. religion reporting
Peculiar Portrayals: Mormons on the Page, stage, and Screen
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  • January 2010

Mark T Decker

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Michael Austin