Research

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...

As a collaboration between the Center for Media, Religion and Culture and KGNU, this quarterly radio show was a work of public scholarship dedicated to bringing the conversations being had at the center out to the public. With interviews conducted by KGNU's Maeve Conran of center members including Stewart Hoover...

This research, supported by a grant from the Social Sciences Research Council, was a joint project of the center and the University of Colorado’s Center for Asian Studies. It developed a profile of Muslims and of Islam in the six states of the mountain west region. Interviews and site visits...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This four-year-long study (2006 to 2010) is part of a larger project supported by the Lilly Endowment. Stewart Hoover and Lynn Schofield Clark are co-investigators of the overall effort. The center’s focus is on questions of masculinity, religion and media, looking at where men get their ideas about masculinity and...

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.