@book {2681,
	title = {Religion in the News: Faith and Journalism in American Public Discourse},
	year = {1998},
	publisher = {SAGE Publications, Inc},
	organization = {SAGE Publications, Inc},
	abstract = {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 but a few. Media treatment of religion can be seen as a kind of indicator of the broader role and status of religion on the contemporary scene. 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 P. 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 age.

This volume is highly recommended to media professionals, journalists, people in the religious community, and for classroom use in religious studies and media studies programs.

},
	url = {https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/religion-in-the-news/book8019},
	author = {Hoover, Stewart}
}
@article {226,
	title = {Faith Online: 64\% of Wired Americans Have Used the Internet for Spiritual or Religious Information},
	year = {2004},
	url = {http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_room_detail.aspx?id=22636},
	author = {Hoover, Stewart and Rainie, Lee and Clark, Lynn. S}
}
@inbook {186,
	title = {The Anthropology of Religious Meaning Making in The Digital Age},
	booktitle = {Media Anthropology},
	year = {2005},
	pages = {257-259},
	publisher = {Sage},
	organization = {Sage},
	address = {Thousand Oaks, CA.},
	abstract = {Media Anthropology represents a convergence of issues and interests on anthropological approaches to the study of media. The purpose of this reader is to promote the identity of the field of study; identify its major concepts, methods, and bibliography; comment on the state of the art; and provide examples of current research. Based on original articles by leading scholars from several countries and academic disciplines, Media Anthropology provides essays introducing the issues, reviewing the field, forging new conceptual syntheses.},
	url = {http://books.google.com/books?id=l5eZhM8W7SUC\&printsec=frontcover$\#$v=onepage\&q\&f=false},
	author = {Hoover, Stewart and Park, Jin}
}
@book {147,
	title = {Religion in the Media Age},
	year = {2006},
	publisher = {Routledge},
	organization = {Routledge},
	address = {London},
	abstract = {Looking at the everyday interaction of religion and media in our cultural lives, Hoover{\textquoteright}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 world religions and giving access to more diverse and fragmented ideals. While the sheer volume and variety of information travelling through global media changes modes of religious thought and commitment, the human desire for spirituality also invigorates popular culture itself, recreating commodities, film blockbusters, world sport and popular music as contexts for religious meanings. Drawing on research into household media consumption, Hoover charts the way in which media and religion intermingle and collide in the cultural experience of media audiences. Religion in the Media Age is essential reading for everyone interested in how today mass media relates to contemporary religious and spiritual life.},
	url = {http://books.google.com/books/about/Religion_in_the_media_age.html?id=rdLh5S_MkUQC},
	author = {Hoover, Stewart}
}
@book {2717,
	title = {Mass Media Religion: The Social Sources of the Electronic Church},
	year = {1988},
	publisher = {SAGE Publications, Incorporated},
	organization = {SAGE Publications, Incorporated},
	abstract = {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 neo-evangelical responses to the crisis of modernity and the historical development of the electronic church. He includes a series of interviews with representative viewers, discussing their beliefs, experiences, worldviews, and the role electronic religion plays in other aspects of their lives.

Finally, the development of the electronic church in its wider context and its implications for American culture in general are considered.},
	url = {https://www.colorado.edu/cmrc/1988/11/01/mass-media-religion-social-sources-electronic-church},
	author = {Hoover, Stewart}
}
