2nd Edition

Religion in the Media Age

By Stewart M. Hoover Copyright 2025
366 Pages
by Routledge

366 Pages
by Routledge

366 Pages
by Routledge

Looking at the everyday interaction of religion and media in our cultural lives, Hoover’s book is a fascinating assessment of the state of modern religion. This revised second edition now looks at the digital age, "new media" and the significant role of social media on religion today. While the sheer volume and variety of information traveling through global media changes modes of religious... Read more

Series Editor 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

Biography

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.