Concepts under Repair

RHYTHMS Fall 2023: Concepts under Repair

Nov. 21, 2023

The second issue of the Center for Media, Religion, and Culture’s pamphlet series, RHYTHMS , is now available. Download narrow view Download wide view

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The Third Spaces of Digital Religion

March 20, 2023

This exciting volume explores how religious meaning is generated and performed in our present digital media ecosystem. It uses the spatial metaphor of a third space to visualize the mobility of everyday religion and to explore the dynamic ways in which contemporary subjects imagine, produce, and navigate new religious and...

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RHYTHMS Fall 2022: Writing in Times of Urgency

Oct. 23, 2022

The first issue of the Center for Media, Religion, and Culture’s pamphlet series, RHYTHMS , is now available. Download

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Does God Make the Man?: Media, Religion, and the Crisis of Masculinity

Oct. 2, 2015

By Stewart M. Hoover and Curtis D. Coats Many believe that religion plays a positive role in men’s identity development, with religion promoting good behavior, and morality. In contrast, we often assume that the media is a negative influence for men, teaching them to be rough and violent, and to...

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The Parent App: Understanding Families in the Digital Age

Oct. 9, 2012

By Lynn Schofield Clark Ninety-five percent of American kids have Internet access by age 11; the average number of texts a teenager sends each month is well over 3,000. More families report that technology makes life with children more challenging, not less, as parents today struggle with questions previous generations...

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Media, Spiritualities and Social Change

Jan. 1, 2010

Edited by: Stewart M. Hoover & Monica Emerich This book maps emergent global practices and discourses of mediated, spiritualized social change. Bringing together scholarly perspectives from around the world and across disciplines, the authors explore how ‘spiritualities’ express themselves through and with media – from television to Internet, from fashion...

Media and Religion

Oct. 1, 2009

by Stewart M. Hoover The Center White Papers Series presents essays on important and emerging issues in media and religion. They are intended for a nonspecialist audience and seek to lay out the rationale for academic study and teaching focused on the intersections between media and religion. This paper is...

Fundamentalisms and the Media

Aug. 9, 2009

Edited by: Stewart M. Hoover and Nadia Kaneva The turn of the twenty-first century has seen an ever-increasing profile for religion, contrary to long-standing predictions of its decline. Instead, the West has experienced what some call a ‘realignment’ of religion where it persists in conjunction with other institutions and structures...

Religion, Media, and the Marketplace

April 1, 2007

Edited by: Lynn Schofield Clark Religion is infiltrating the arena of consumer culture in increasingly visible ways. We see it in myriad forms-in movies, such as Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, on Internet shrines and kitschy Web “altars,” and in the recent advertising campaign that attacked fuel-guzzling SUVs...

Religion in the Media Age

April 26, 2006

By Stewart M. Hoover Looking at the everyday interaction of religion and media in our cultural lives, Religion in the Media Age is an exciting new assessment of the state of modern religiosity. Recent years have produced a marked turn away from institutionalized religions toward more autonomous, individual forms of...

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