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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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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