Research

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...

This project, funded by the Lilly Endowment, examind how media are used as a resource in family and individual meaning-making practices. It was co-directed by Stewart Hoover and Lynn Schofield Clark, and lasted from 2001 to 2006. Hoover’s work focused on the ways in which religious “seeking” in the U.S...

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...

This was an interdisciplinary study, funded by the Lilly Endowment that continued from 1996 to 2001. It focused on the meaning of media in family and household contexts, looking particularly at how what the late media scholar Roger Silverstone called “the moral economy of the household” is a function of...

This was a two-year-long effort (1991 to 1993) that continued Stewart Hoover’s work on religion journalism. Funded by the Lilly Endowment, the project enabled survey as well as qualitative research, and included studies of the profession of religion journalism. This project resulted in Hoover’s book, Religion in the News: Faith...

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...