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Religion in the Media Age remains an exciting assessment of the state of modern religiosity. Drawing on fascinating research into household media consumption, Stewart M. Hoover charts the way in which media and religion intermingle and collide in the cultural experience of media audiences.
List of contents
Series editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction 1. What this book
could be about 2. From medium to meaning: the evolution of theories about media, religion, and culture 3. Media and religion in transition 4. Articulating life and culture in the media age: plausible narratives of the self 5. Reception of religion and media 6. Cultural objects and religious identity among born-agains and mainstream believers 7. Cultural objects and religious identity among metaphysical believers, dogmatists, and secularists 8. Representing outcomes 9. Media and public religious culture post-09/11/01
and post-11/2/04 and onward to 01/06/21 10. Conclusion: what is produced?
Appendix: Notes on method;
Bibliography;
Index
About the author
Stewart M. Hoover is Professor Emeritus of Media Studies in the College of Media, Communication, and Information at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he founded and is Director Emeritus of the Center for Media, Religion and Culture.
Summary
Religion in the Media Age remains an exciting assessment of the state of modern religiosity. Drawing on fascinating research into household media consumption, Stewart M. Hoover charts the way in which media and religion intermingle and collide in the cultural experience of media audiences.
