Research
- 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 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
- 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
By Lynn Schofield Clark Ninety-five percent of American kids have Internet access by age 11; the average number of texts a teenager sends each month is well over 3,000. More families report that technology makes life with children more challenging,
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- 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
Edited by: Stewart M. Hoover & Monica Emerich This book maps emergent global practices and discourses of mediated, spiritualized social change. Bringing together scholarly perspectives from around the world and across disciplines, the authors- by Stewart M. Hoover The Center White Papers Series presents essays on important and emerging issues in media and religion. They are intended for a nonspecialist audience and seek to lay out the rationale for academic study and teaching focused
- Edited by: Stewart M. Hoover and Nadia Kaneva The turn of the twenty-first century has seen an ever-increasing profile for religion, contrary to long-standing predictions of its decline. Instead, the West has experienced what some call a ‘
- Edited by: Lynn Schofield Clark Religion is infiltrating the arena of consumer culture in increasingly visible ways. We see it in myriad forms-in movies, such as Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, on Internet shrines and kitschy Web “altars,”