Public Religion and Public Scholarship in the Digital Age

Jan. 1, 2019

Supported by a $500,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Public Scholarship Project will assemble an interdisciplinary working group which will meet regularly and collaborate over a period of three years. The project Working Group includes prominent scholars from a variety of fields and disciplines. During this time, they...

Finding Religion in the Media

Jan. 1, 2014

The Center for Media, Religion and Culture completed a study funded by the Ford Foundation on the ways religion is represented, experienced and understood through the media today. The project, entitled “Finding Religion in the Media,” explored the extent to which religious belief, practice and action—particularly that directed at social...

Third Spaces Blog

Feb. 13, 2013

The Center for Media, Religion and Culture is pleased to launch the Third Spaces Blog as a place to survey and reflect on contemporary mediations of religion and spirituality. Much of what we know of the “religious” is at least present in, if not actually generated in and by, the...

The Media Ambivalence Project

Jan. 1, 2013

This project aims to broaden our understanding of cultural and technological convergence by exploring "media ambivalence,” namely, the reluctance of individuals and communities to embrace the so-called “digital imperative” whole heartedly, sometimes in limited, personal ways or in ideologically articulated practices. Beginning with the assumption that media ambivalence is implicated...

From top left to bottom right, logos for major world religion including The Star of David, the Wheel of Samsara, the Cresent Moon and Star, and the Cross. To the right of that, a graduation cap. To the right of  that, social media logos for LinkedIn, Facebook, Pinmtrest, YouTube, Twitter, and various functional items such as a share button and WIFI. Finally, across the bottom, the title "Sacred Lines".

Sacred Lines

July 12, 2012

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...

Muslims in the Mountain West

Jan. 1, 2011

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...

Media, Meaning and Work: Men, Vocation, and Civic Engagement

Jan. 1, 2006

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...

Symbolism, Meaning and the New Media @ Home

Jan. 1, 2001

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...

Symbolism, Media, and the Lifecourse

Jan. 1, 1996

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...

Religion in Public Discourse: The Role of the Media

Jan. 1, 1991

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...