Publications

by Stewart M. Hoover, Lynn Schofield Clark and Diane F. Alters Based on extensive fieldwork, this book examines how parents make decisions regulating media use, and how media practices define contemporary family life.

Edited by Stewart M. Hoover and Lynn Schofield Clark Increasingly, the religious practices people engage in and the ways they talk about what is meaningful or sacred take place in the context of media culture–in the realm of the so-called secular. Focusing on this intersection of the sacred and the...

By Stewart M. Hoover Since the 1970s, more and more religious stories have made their way to headline news: the Islamic Revolution in Iran, televangelism and its scandals, and the rise of the Evangelical New Right and its role in politics, to name but a few. Media treatment of religion...

Edited by Stewart M. Hoover and Knut Lundby The growing connections between media, culture, and religion are increasingly evident in our society today but have rarely been linked theoretically until now. Beginning with the decline of religious institutions during the latter part of this century, Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture...

by Stewart M. Hoover Mass Media Religion considers and explores the implications of the evergrowing religious broadcasting media in terms of their social and political contexts. The author reviews both the historical origins of fundamentalist and neo-evangelical responses to the crisis of modernity and the historical development of the electronic...