Part I
People may ask what is the relationship between religion and media and often wonder if media is anti-religious or is religion anti-media. I honestly think that a deeper understanding of how religion is mediated is needed. The example that I am using is actually the television show Breaking Amish. Just to give you some background on Amish people in the Christian religion, Amish are members of an Anabaptist Christian denomination, and they are known by the fact that they separate themselves from society. I believe the show Breaking Amish is based off the group that lives in Pennsylvania. The main characters of the show are Abe, Jeremiah, Kate, Rebecca, and Sabrina and the show is directed by Eric Evangelista. The Amish women and girls wear modest dresses made from solid-colored fabric with long sleeves and a full skirt. The dresses are covered with a cape and apron and are fastened with straight pins or snaps. The women never cut their hair and they actually wear it in a bun on the back of their head. In order to signify if they are married they wear a white prayer covering and if they are single they wear black. Let me give you some insight on the Amish men they wear dark-colored suits, straight cut coats without lapels, broadfall trousers, suspenders, solid colored shirts, black socks, and shoes and of course their black or straw broad-brimmed hat. They grow beards after they are married but they do not have mustaches. The show is based on the five young adults who are Anabaptist that actually move to New York City in hopes to experience a different life style and decide if they want to return to their Amish community. The thing is if they decided to stay outside of the community they have to deal with ostracism from their family and friends. In the Amish some 16 year old Amish are allowed to experience Rumspringa, which is the rite of passage in which they are allowed to experience the outside world and make their decision. Amish differ considerably from community to community when it comes down to the strictness of the shunning as well as the severeness. The show taught me that an Amish person may be shunned for a variety of offenses which can range from moral offenses to something that we take for granted which is technology. I think the details that were important about my example is the fact that these individuals were willing to step outside of their comfort zone try to experience the things that they have never got a chance to be exposed to. The experience is one that will allow them to decide if this way of life is for them or if new lifestyles are something that would be able to deal with. I hope the details I have included allow you to briefly look into the lives of these young Amish individuals.
Part II
My interpretation and analysis of example I chose is the writer wanted to convey the issues that the Amish people deal with and how they are looked at in different ways. The setting the writer picked to me was the most common one because most Amish groups are in Pennsylvania. My take on it the whole thing is since the Amish are taught that things are bad outside their community the writer wanted to actually give them a sense of how things actually are and give the public an inside view of how they would handle everything. I think the show will teach them to have confidence in themselves and kind of make their own decisions instead of living the way others want them to live. We all know that the Amish do not use electricity but their reason for not using it is because they feel that linking with electrical wires is a connection to the world. To me that alone shows some of their thoughts about their religion. The Amish bible tells them that they are not to be conformed to the world. I found it very interesting that they did not actually believe that the electricity was evil but more so a thing that will cause the people to be tempted and also cause deterioration of their church and family life. I hope this example was helpful in allowing you to see how religion is mediated in our contemporary culture.

References
Amish people and their culture retrieved from http://lancasterpa.com/amish/amish-people/
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/nyc-test-faith-breaking-amish-article-1.1943042