<p><em>The Rosary and the Microphone</em>&nbsp;explores U2 as a politically engaged band that manifests a particular brand of Christianity through the band&rsquo;s mediation in a global context and for a global audience.</p><p>Through the primarily semiotic study of U2&rsquo;s various mediations, this book maps the band&rsquo;s strategies for negotiating its place in the world as a global band &mdash; and a mediated brand &mdash; and as a proponent of a kind of cosmopolitanism, or global care. U2&rsquo;s brand is heavily informed by Bono&rsquo;s own personal religious formation. This religious viewpoint is expressed in a global concern &mdash; a Christian cosmopolitanism &mdash; that looks outward and urges others to do the same.</p><p><em>The Rosary and the Microphone</em>&nbsp;explores U2 in live performance, through music videos and in unique media offerings, such as the feature-length music video&nbsp;<em>Linear</em>.</p>