Stewart M Hoover
Biographic Data
| ID | 230626 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stewart M Hoover |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stewart M |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoover |
| SIGNATURE | HOOVER S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Shifting Terms of Religious Authority in North Atlantic Politics and Culture
Religion continues to evolve on both sides of the North Atlantic. In both contexts, traditional ways of understanding religion are confronted by new realities. The emerging and growing influence of modern media and media institutions are important causes of these changes. It is no longer possible to think of ‘religion’ and ‘secular’ as separate categories when ‘secular’ media increasingly define and deploy religious images, interests, and network…
Mediation of Religious Meaning and Emerging Religious Sensibilities
Modes of Understanding of the Religion “Object” in North Atlantic Modernity
Recent struggles over the implications of migration have fueled transformational politics on both sides of the Atlantic. At the center of this are questions of identity, value, long-standing standards of human rights and even enlightenment categories of modernity. Both religion and media play central – even determinative – roles in these debates. This article will argue that scholarships focused on identity “imaginaries” are critical to understan…
Media, Public Scholarship and Religious Controversy: Notes from Trump’s America
The persistence of religion in the twenty-first century has renewed the importance of scholarships devoted to it. At the same time, the digital age has re-positioned and recentered the affordances of mediated circulations around "the religious." This increasing presence and significance of media and religion suggests that substantive scholarships of religion must necessarily articulate media as well. Religious controversies therefore present a sp…
The Media and Religious Authority
As the availability and use of media platforms continue to expand, the cultural visibility of religion is on the rise, leading to questions about religious authority: Where does it come from? How is it established? What might be changing it? The contributors to The Media and Religious Authority examine the ways in which new centers of power and influence are emerging as religions seek to “brand” themselves in the media age. Putting their in-depth…
The Media and Religious Authority
"Explores how modern means of communication are changing religion, and how contemporary mediations of religion challenge and refine the aspirations and prospects of religious authority"--Provided by publisher.
Quantity, Quality, and Religion in the News Since 9/11
The terrorist attacks on the United States by al Qaeda on September 11, 2001 led to increased public interest in religion in general, and Islam in particular. It led to increased awareness on the part of journalists, editors, and publishers that religion should be nearer to the center of the news project. It led to a higher profile for public information and public understanding of religion in politics and in policy making. It led to a greater ap…
The Media and Male Identities: Audience Research in Media, Religion, and Masculinities
Findings from in-depth interviews with 19 Evangelical Protestant men regarding their ideas about masculinity, media, and religion are reported. The authors propose a critical test of a neoconservative view which laments a modern “crisis of masculinity” and which posits media as a villain in this crisis and religion, particularly conservative religion, as the savior. The study pursues a line of inquiry suggested by D. Gauntlett (2002) and S. M. Ho…
Media and the imagination of religion in contemporary global culture
This article argues for an invigorated scholarship of religion within cultural studies. It suggests that this is justified both on its own terms and because there is evidence that the interaction of media and religion is creating entirely new forms of the religious in contemporary public life. Religion persists in history, but it persists in part because of its mediation and this persistent, mediated religion constitutes a new evolution. The arti…
Religion and the Media
Listening Beyond the Echoes: Media, Ethics, and Agency in an Uncertain World
Nick Couldry's Listening Beyond the Echoes builds on his earlier work through an extensive empirical investigation of the true nature of political practice in a media age where boundaries between p
Numbers, Interpretations, and Meta-Analysis: Research Paradigms in Dialogue
Religion in the Media Age
Looking at the everyday interaction of religion and media in our cultural lives, Hoover’s new book is a fascinating assessment of the state of modern religion. Recent years have produced a marked turn away from institutionalized religions towards more autonomous, individual forms of the search for spiritual meaning. Film, television, the music industry and the internet are central to this process, cutting through the monolithic assertions of worl…
The Anthropology of Religious Meaning Making in the Digital Age
Islands in the Global Stream: Television, Religion and Geographic Integration
Religion in the News: Faith and Journalism in American Public Discourse
To better understand the relationship between religion and the news media, both in everyday practice and in the larger context of American public discourse, author Stewart M. Hoover gives a cultural-historical analysis in his book, Religion in the News. The resulting insights provide important clues as to the place of religion in American life, the role of the media in cultural discourse, and the prospects of institutional religion in the media a…
Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture
Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture
PART ONE: ANALYSIS OF MEDIA, RELIGION, AND CULTURE Introduction - Stewart M Hoover and Knut Lundby Setting the Agenda At the Intersection of Media, Culture, and Religion - Lynn Schofield Clark and Stewart M Hoover A Bibliographical Essay Religion and Media in the Construction of Cultures - Robert A White Technology and Triadic Theories of Mediation - Clifford G Christians PART TWO: MEDIA, RELIGION, AND CULTURE: CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY The Re-Enchant…
Controversy and cultural symbolism: Press relations and the formation of public discourse in the case of the RE‐imagining event
Publicity for non‐mainstream events and alternative ideas may come primarily out of the controversy they produce rather than as a result of intentional public relations efforts. In the case reviewed here, we explore how what might be understood as a private conversation in mainline religion—a branch of religion that currently receives little publicity‐became one of the top religion news stories of the year. Examining the publicity surrounding a s…
History and policy in American broadcast treatment of religion
The evolution of policy and practice regarding religion in the case of US broadcasting provides an opportunity to understand the treatment of religion as an objective matter. US print media treatment developed less self-consciously. In each of these cases, however, a fundamental question obtains: how it is that in a society where religiosity is so common, religion continues to be a problematic element of media content? This article investigates t…
Event and Publicity as Social Drama: A Case Study of the RE-Imagining Conference 1995
Stewart M. Hoover, Lynn Schofield Clark, Event and Publicity as Social Drama: A Case Study of the RE-Imagining Conference 1995, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 39, No. 2, Special Issue: Mass Media and Unconventional Religion (Dec., 1997), pp. 153-171
The category of the religious: The Blindspot of contemporary media theory
This essay addresses the prospects of an approach to contemporary theory‐building which would take account of the realms of meaning, ontology and cultural practice traditionally in the province of religion. Beginning with an assessment of the germinal social theory of Durkheim, Weber and Marx, the investigation develops an interpretation of contemporary social and cultural life which conceives of “the religious” as radically located within “the s…
Media and the Moral Order in Postpositivist Approaches to Media Studies
Journal Article Media and the Moral Order in Postpositivist Approaches to Media Studies Get access Stewart M. Hoover Stewart M. Hoover 1University of Colorado at Boulder Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 45, Issue 1, March 1995, Pages 136–146, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1995.tb00719.x Published: 07 February 2006
The Airwaves of Zion: Radio and Religion in Appalachia
The Gods of Televangelism
This work provides a critical, interpretive study of two religious programmes - The 700 Club and The Jimmy Swaggert Telecast - and examines their appeal by situating them within the history of American religion and culture
Media and the imagination of religion in contemporary global culture
This article argues for an invigorated scholarship of religion within cultural studies. It suggests that this is justified both on its own terms and because there is evidence that the interaction of media and religion is creating entirely new forms of the religious in contemporary public life. Religion persists in history, but it persists in part because of its mediation and this persistent, mediated religion constitutes a new evolution. The arti…
The Religious Television Audience: A Matter of Significance, or Size
Making Something of Ourselves: On Culture and Politics in the United States
In this provocative book on the relation of culture to politics, Richard Merelman argues that the United States has evolved an anthropologically novel form of culture, one that he defines as 'loosely bounded.' He suggests that the world our fragmented culture portraysegalitarian, fluid, open, and personalis not the world of political and social structures that actually exists. He examines loose boundedness as it emerges in television, schools, ad…
The Religious Television Audience: A Matter of Significance, or Size
Religious television: Audience size: Some questions
"Responses to "Star Wars of a Different Kind: "Reflections on the Politics of the Religion and Television Research Project," by Jeffrey K. Hadden and Razelle Frankl
George Gerbner, Larry Gross, Stewart Hoover, Michael Morgan, Nancy Signorielli, Responses to "Star Wars of a Different Kind: Reflections on the Politics of the Religion and Television Research Project," by Jeffrey K. Hadden and Razelle Frankl, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Sep., 1989), pp. 94-102
Televangelism: Power and Politics on God's Frontier
Journal Article Televangelism: Power and Politics on God's Frontier by Jeffrey K. Hadden and Anson Shupe. New York: Holt, 1988, viii + 325 pp. $19.95 Get access Stewart M. Hoover Stewart M. Hoover Temple University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 50, Issue 3, Fall 1989, Pages 299–300, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711565 Published: 01 October 1989
Film reviews
Approach, Theory, and Technique in the Making of Bar Yohai1 Bar Yohai Anthropological Film as Celebration Television Believers A film by Aaron Ranen, Third Wave Media. 1986, 1/2", 3/4”, NTSC, color, 28 minutes. Distributed by Filmakers Library, Inc., 124 E. 40th Street, Suite 901, New York, NY 10016, USA, tele. 212–808–4980. Price: purchase $300, rental $55
Mass Media Religion: The Social Sources of the Electronic Church
Journal Article Mass Media Religion: The Social Sources of the Electronic Church, by Stewart M. Hoover. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications, 1988, 251 pp. $29.95 Get access Anson Shupe Anson Shupe Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 51, Issue 3, Fall 1990, Pages 335–336, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711186 Published: 01 October 1990
Religious Television: Controversies and Conclusions
Journal Article Religious Television: Controversies and Conclusions, edited by Robert Abelman and Stewart M. Hoover. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing, 1990, 366 pp. $52.50; $32.50 (paper) Get access Ben Nefzger Ben Nefzger Augustana College, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 52, Issue 4, Winter 1991, Pages 421–422, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710860 Published: 01 December 199…
Religious Television: Controversies and Conclusions
Religious Television: Controversies and Conclusions
Religious Television: Controversies and Conclusions
This volume addresses the various and highly topical controversies surrounding religious television by examining its history, structure, content, viewship, and social impact. It represents a compilation of original essays written by the world's leading scholars, regulators, authorities, and watchdogs of religious television. Each controversy is addressed from a wide range of perspectives. The result is a most interesting exchange of ideas and ide…
The Airwaves of Zion: Radio and Religion in Appalachia
The Gods of Televangelism
This work provides a critical, interpretive study of two religious programmes - The 700 Club and The Jimmy Swaggert Telecast - and examines their appeal by situating them within the history of American religion and culture
Media and the Moral Order in Postpositivist Approaches to Media Studies
Journal Article Media and the Moral Order in Postpositivist Approaches to Media Studies Get access Stewart M. Hoover Stewart M. Hoover 1University of Colorado at Boulder Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 45, Issue 1, March 1995, Pages 136–146, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1995.tb00719.x Published: 07 February 2006
The category of the religious: The Blindspot of contemporary media theory
This essay addresses the prospects of an approach to contemporary theory‐building which would take account of the realms of meaning, ontology and cultural practice traditionally in the province of religion. Beginning with an assessment of the germinal social theory of Durkheim, Weber and Marx, the investigation develops an interpretation of contemporary social and cultural life which conceives of “the religious” as radically located within “the s…
Controversy and cultural symbolism: Press relations and the formation of public discourse in the case of the RE‐imagining event
Publicity for non‐mainstream events and alternative ideas may come primarily out of the controversy they produce rather than as a result of intentional public relations efforts. In the case reviewed here, we explore how what might be understood as a private conversation in mainline religion—a branch of religion that currently receives little publicity‐became one of the top religion news stories of the year. Examining the publicity surrounding a s…
History and policy in American broadcast treatment of religion
The evolution of policy and practice regarding religion in the case of US broadcasting provides an opportunity to understand the treatment of religion as an objective matter. US print media treatment developed less self-consciously. In each of these cases, however, a fundamental question obtains: how it is that in a society where religiosity is so common, religion continues to be a problematic element of media content? This article investigates t…
Event and Publicity as Social Drama: A Case Study of the RE-Imagining Conference 1995
Stewart M. Hoover, Lynn Schofield Clark, Event and Publicity as Social Drama: A Case Study of the RE-Imagining Conference 1995, Review of Religious Research, Vol. 39, No. 2, Special Issue: Mass Media and Unconventional Religion (Dec., 1997), pp. 153-171
Religion in the News: Faith and Journalism in American Public Discourse
To better understand the relationship between religion and the news media, both in everyday practice and in the larger context of American public discourse, author Stewart M. Hoover gives a cultural-historical analysis in his book, Religion in the News. The resulting insights provide important clues as to the place of religion in American life, the role of the media in cultural discourse, and the prospects of institutional religion in the media a…
Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture
Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture
PART ONE: ANALYSIS OF MEDIA, RELIGION, AND CULTURE Introduction - Stewart M Hoover and Knut Lundby Setting the Agenda At the Intersection of Media, Culture, and Religion - Lynn Schofield Clark and Stewart M Hoover A Bibliographical Essay Religion and Media in the Construction of Cultures - Robert A White Technology and Triadic Theories of Mediation - Clifford G Christians PART TWO: MEDIA, RELIGION, AND CULTURE: CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY The Re-Enchant…
The Anthropology of Religious Meaning Making in the Digital Age
Islands in the Global Stream: Television, Religion and Geographic Integration
Religion in the Media Age
Looking at the everyday interaction of religion and media in our cultural lives, Hoover’s new book is a fascinating assessment of the state of modern religion. Recent years have produced a marked turn away from institutionalized religions towards more autonomous, individual forms of the search for spiritual meaning. Film, television, the music industry and the internet are central to this process, cutting through the monolithic assertions of worl…
Numbers, Interpretations, and Meta-Analysis: Research Paradigms in Dialogue
Sociology (29 works) · Media, Religion, Digital Communication (24 works) · Political science (22 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (21 works) · Law (15 works) · Media studies (14 works) · Religious Tourism and Spaces (12 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Social science (9 works) · Politics (7 works)