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• catalog abstract ""Although TV talk shows are a recent phenomenon, their roots go back to the itinerant circuses and religious revivals of the nineteenth century. Just as circuses made their money by displaying "freaks," so today's talk shows emphasize only the deviant aspects of their guests' lives. And like the revivalists of old, talk show hosts, such as Oprah Winfrey, Sally Jesse Raphael, and Montel Williams, attempt to "convert" their guests through healing powers. Guests who have been victimized bear witness to the pain and suffering they have endured at the hands of their victimizers. The liturgy of these salvational talk shows builds to a moment of conversion, when victimizers see the error of their ways. The hosts, victims, experts, and audience each play their part in the conversion drama that unfolds daily on the screen." "After framing the genre in this way, Dr. Lowney's book raises the essential question, conversion to what? The faith preached on talk shows is based on the principles of the Recovery Movement, among whose tenets are that care for one's self is the highest virtue and that psychological wounds that endure from childhood into adulthood create troublesome and addictive behaviors or "codependency." The only "cure" is to join a therapeutic 12-step group." "Baring Our Souls probes the roots of the genre in the religion of recovery, and holds both up to the scrutiny of sociological inquiry. This will be a welcome supplementary text in courses in social problems, media, and civil religion."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b11666036.
• catalog created "c1999.".
• catalog date "1999".
• catalog date "c1999.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
• catalog description ""Although TV talk shows are a recent phenomenon, their roots go back to the itinerant circuses and religious revivals of the nineteenth century. Just as circuses made their money by displaying "freaks," so today's talk shows emphasize only the deviant aspects of their guests' lives. And like the revivalists of old, talk show hosts, such as Oprah Winfrey, Sally Jesse Raphael, and Montel Williams, attempt to "convert" their guests through healing powers. Guests who have been victimized bear witness to the pain and suffering they have endured at the hands of their victimizers. The liturgy of these salvational talk shows builds to a moment of conversion, when victimizers see the error of their ways. The hosts, victims, experts, and audience each play their part in the conversion drama that unfolds daily on the screen." "After framing the genre in this way, Dr. Lowney's book raises the essential question, conversion to what? The faith preached on talk shows is based on the principles of the Recovery Movement, among whose tenets are that care for one's self is the highest virtue and that psychological wounds that endure from childhood into adulthood create troublesome and addictive behaviors or "codependency." The only "cure" is to join a therapeutic 12-step group." "Baring Our Souls probes the roots of the genre in the religion of recovery, and holds both up to the scrutiny of sociological inquiry. This will be a welcome supplementary text in courses in social problems, media, and civil religion."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-156) and index.".
• catalog description "New Wine, Old Wineskins: Talk Shows as a Genre -- Nervousness, Shame, and Critics: What People Are Saying about TV Talk Shows -- Yes Virginia, there Is Morality on Daytime Talk Shows: Explaining the Present by Looking to the Past -- Secular Fun: The Circus as Entertainment -- Turning Away from Sin: Religious Revivals as Opportunities for Conversion -- Come Watch with Me Under the Electronic Tent: TV Talk Shows as Circus and Revival -- What Kind of Morality is the Religion of Recovery? -- Outline of the Book -- Telling Tales: Testifying to Trials and Tribulations -- Preparations: Back Stage at Talk Shows -- Opening Frames -- Staging -- Talk Shows and Social Problems Work: Producing People -- Breaking with the Past: The Moment of Conversion -- Words of Change: Conversion Discourse -- Conversion Roles: Seekers and Victimizers -- Conversion Roles: Experts and Ex-es -- Recovery Rules: The Beliefs of Recovery Religion -- Freedom to be Me: Valuation of Self Over Society -- Family: The Ties That Bind -- Emotional Scars Run Deep -- Healing Takes Help -- Hooked On Being Hooked -- From Whence Cometh "Salvation"? The Roots of Recovery Religion -- The First Root: Medicine, Religion, and the Right to Define Deviance -- The Second Root: "Medicine-Lite"--The Growth of Alcoholics Anonymous, New Practitioners and the Emergence of Codependency -- The Third Root: Turning Inward, Albeit in Many Forms -- Recovery Sells -- Morality for Whom? Problems with Recovery Religion as Moral Code and Public Discourse.".
• catalog extent "xii, 159 p. ;".
• catalog identifier "0202305937 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "0202305945 (paper : alk. paper)".
• catalog isPartOf "Social problems and social issues".
• catalog issued "1999".
• catalog issued "c1999.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Aldine de Gruyter,".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "791.45/6 21".
• catalog subject "PN1992.8.T3 L68 1999".
• catalog subject "Recovery movement.".
• catalog subject "Television talk shows Social aspects United States.".
• catalog tableOfContents "New Wine, Old Wineskins: Talk Shows as a Genre -- Nervousness, Shame, and Critics: What People Are Saying about TV Talk Shows -- Yes Virginia, there Is Morality on Daytime Talk Shows: Explaining the Present by Looking to the Past -- Secular Fun: The Circus as Entertainment -- Turning Away from Sin: Religious Revivals as Opportunities for Conversion -- Come Watch with Me Under the Electronic Tent: TV Talk Shows as Circus and Revival -- What Kind of Morality is the Religion of Recovery? -- Outline of the Book -- Telling Tales: Testifying to Trials and Tribulations -- Preparations: Back Stage at Talk Shows -- Opening Frames -- Staging -- Talk Shows and Social Problems Work: Producing People -- Breaking with the Past: The Moment of Conversion -- Words of Change: Conversion Discourse -- Conversion Roles: Seekers and Victimizers -- Conversion Roles: Experts and Ex-es -- Recovery Rules: The Beliefs of Recovery Religion -- Freedom to be Me: Valuation of Self Over Society -- Family: The Ties That Bind -- Emotional Scars Run Deep -- Healing Takes Help -- Hooked On Being Hooked -- From Whence Cometh "Salvation"? The Roots of Recovery Religion -- The First Root: Medicine, Religion, and the Right to Define Deviance -- The Second Root: "Medicine-Lite"--The Growth of Alcoholics Anonymous, New Practitioners and the Emergence of Codependency -- The Third Root: Turning Inward, Albeit in Many Forms -- Recovery Sells -- Morality for Whom? Problems with Recovery Religion as Moral Code and Public Discourse.".
• catalog title "Baring our souls : TV talk shows and the religion of recovery / Kathleen S. Lowney.".
• catalog type "text".