Controversy and Cultural Symbolism: Press Relations and the Formation of Public Discourse in the Case of the RE-Imagining Event.

Argues that news media interest on the topics of feminine images of God and female sexuality expressed in worship gives a public airing to otherwise marginally supported views and interests, thus allowing them to achieve a wider hearing, yet also exacerbating the increasing polarization between liberal and conservative factions of religious expression in the United States. (SR)