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Luis Mauro Sa Martino, The Mediatization of Religion: When Faith Rocks

its fostering of cosmopolitan contact zones and the accumulation of transnational cultural capital that has resulted from this. While they can become manifest as sites of unequal power relations, such zones are vital spaces of cultural encounter, exchange and creative development. This book examines various diasporic formations in relation to such spaces, comparing them cross-nationally, cross-temporally, and through significant historical moments, in order to examine the ways in which, and the extent to which, they can be assessed as cosmopolitan. Marie Gillespie and Alban Webb have editorially divided the book into three sections, starting with five chapters that examine the numerous roles played by the World Service in various periods of its history, and across many shifts in geostrategic priorities. These move from Emma Robertson’s discussion of the early years of the Empire Service through chapters on the wartime years to Alban Webb’s exploration of the diasporic and institutional framework in which the BBC Polish Section reported the rise of Solidarity in the early 1980s. The second part of the book attends to cultural diplomacy in the Middle East and South Asia in the period following the Second World War. Chapters in this section examine the BBC’s Arabic Service, broadcasting to Iran and South Asia, the history of the BBC’s Urdu Service and music listening in Iran via the BBC’s Persian Service. This topic, presented by Jason Toynbee and Leili Sreberny Mohammadi, would have been better placed in the book’s third section, which offers analyses of crosscultural dialogues of one kind or another and the manner in which cosmopolitan practices within the World Service have been shaped by corporate and strategic interests. Its three chapters focus on the Afghan version of The Archers, BBC World Service online forums and styles of interaction on the BBC’s Chinese Have Your Say forums. Gillespie and Webb have assembled and coordinated a significant collection of essays surveying and discussing 80 years of broadcasting history. The BBC’s World Service has changed and modified its various roles across that stretch of time, and it remains a valuable institution serving as a key network of communicative reciprocity between producers and audiences. In the face of an uncertain future, the book acts as a timely taking-of-stock of the World Service’s many achievements and points of merit.