Liverpool Hope University, has issued a call for papers for a Symposium on Representation of Religions in the Media to be held 29 and 30 July 2013. Religion remains a significant aspect of contemporary social, political and cultural life, and continues to be an object of media scrutiny. Religions are represented in documentaries, serial dramas, comedies, soap operas and on Reality TV. Religions are depicted in films and portrayed in the broadcast and print media, on the internet, and within multi-platform texts.