@article {2795, title = {Media, Public Scholarship and Religious Controversy: Notes from Trump{\textquoteright}s America}, journal = {journal of religion in Europe}, year = {2019}, abstract = {The persistence of religion in the twenty-first century has renewed the importance of scholarships devoted to it. At the same time, the digital age has re-positioned and recentered the affordances of mediated circulations around "the religious." This increasing presence and significance of media and religion suggests that substantive scholarships of religion must necessarily articulate media as well. Religious controversies therefore present a special challenge and a special opportunity to scholarships of media and religion. New ways of doing scholarship, and doing so publicly, present themselves. All scholarships of mediated religion must necessarily be public, so scholarship is articulated into these circulations, and at the same time can build on and benefit from knowledge-building that occurs outside the formal boundaries of the academy. This paper explores emerging theories of digital mediation and proposes a circulation-focused understanding of the role, place, and potentials of scholarships today.}, url = {https://brill.com/view/journals/rmdc/8/1/article-p153_153.xml?language=en}, author = {Hoover, Stewart M} } @book {2669, title = {The Media and Religious Authority}, year = {2016}, publisher = {Penn State University Press}, organization = {Penn State University Press}, abstract = {As the availability and use of media platforms continue to expand, the cultural visibility of religion is on the rise, leading to questions about religious authority: Where does it come from? How is it established? What might be changing it? The contributors to The Media and Religious Authority examine the ways in which new centers of power and influence are emerging as religions seek to {\textquotedblleft}brand{\textquotedblright} themselves in the media age. Putting their in-depth, incisive studies of particular instances of media production and reception in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and North America into conversation with one another, the volume explores how evolving mediations of religion in various places affect the prospects, aspirations, and durability of religious authority across the globe.}, url = {https://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-07322-4.html}, author = {Hoover, Stewart M} }