American television fiction transforming Danish teenagers' religious imaginations

Communications

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 229-247

  Petersen, Line Nybro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

banal religion; Danish teenagers; mediatization of religion; US TV fictions

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956665563     PISSN: 03412059     EISSN: 16134087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/COMM.2010.013     Document Type: Article

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