@book {2688,
	title = {Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture},
	year = {1997},
	publisher = {Sage Publications, Incorporated},
	organization = {Sage Publications, Incorporated},
	abstract = {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 institutions during the latter part of this century, Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture focuses on issues such as the increasing autonomy and individualized practice of religion, the surge of media and media-based icons that are often imbued with religious qualities, and the ensuing effect on cultural practices. Editors Stewart M. Hoover and Knut Lundby examine each of these issues and the implications of major recent findings of religious, media, and cultural studies as they pertain to one another. In a primary effort, the leading class of contributors to this work effectively triangulate these three separate areas into a coherent whole. The book explores phenomena like rallies, rituals, and resistance as they are distinct expressions of religion often transmogrified into different mediated or cultural expressions. This collection should benefit the work of scholars and researchers in communication, media, cultural, and religious studies who seek a broader understanding of the two-sided relationships between religion and media, media and culture, and culture and religion.},
	url = {https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/rethinking-media-religion-and-culture/book4416},
	author = {Hoover, Stewart M. and Lundby, Knut}
}
@article {2675,
	title = {Media and the imagination of religion in contemporary global culture},
	journal = {European Journal of Cultural Studies},
	year = {2011},
	abstract = {This article argues for an invigorated scholarship of religion within cultural studies. It suggests that this is justified both on its own terms and because there is evidence that the interaction of media and religion is creating entirely new forms of the religious in contemporary public life. Religion persists in history, but it persists in part because of its mediation and this persistent, mediated religion constitutes a new evolution. The article presents a range of contexts where this can be seen to be happening, not least those contexts most involved in contemporary cultural globalization.
},
	url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1367549411419980},
	author = {Hoover, Stewart M.}
}
@book {2856,
	title = {Does God Make the Man?: Media, Religion, and the Crisis of Masculinity},
	year = {2015},
	publisher = {NYU Press},
	organization = {NYU Press},
	abstract = {Many believe that religion plays a positive role in men{\textquoteright}s identity development, with religion promoting good behavior, and morality. In contrast, we often assume that the media is a negative influence for men, teaching them to be rough and violent, and to ignore their emotions. In Does God Make the Man?, Stewart M. Hoover and Curtis D. Coats draw on extensive interviews and participant observation with both Evangelical and non-Evangelical men, including Catholics as well as Protestants, to argue that neither of these assumptions is correct.

Dismissing the easy notion that media encourages toxic masculinity and religion is always a positive influence, Hoover and Coats argue that not only are the linkages between religion, media, and masculinity not as strong and substantive as has been assumed, but the ways in which these relations actually play out may contradict received views. Over the course of this fascinating book they examine crises, contradictions, and contestations: crises about the meaning of masculinity and about the lack of direction men experience from their faith communities; contradictions between men{\textquoteright}s religious lives and media lives, and contestations among men{\textquoteright}s ideas about what it means to be a man. 

The book counters common discussions about a {\textquotedblleft}crisis of masculinity,{\textquotedblright} showing that actual men do not see the world the way the {\textquotedblleft}crisis talk{\textquotedblright} has portrayed it{\textemdash}and interestingly, even Evangelical men often do not see religion as part of the solution.},
	url = {https://www.amazon.com/Does-God-Make-Man-Masculinity/dp/1479862231},
	author = {Hoover, Stewart M. and Coats, Curtis D.}
}
@book {2816,
	title = {Media, Home and Family},
	series = {Routledge},
	year = {2003},
	abstract = {Based on extensive fieldwork, this book examines how parents make decisions regulating media use, and how media practices define contemporary family life.
},
	url = {https://www.routledge.com/Media-Home-and-Family/Hoover-Clark-Alters/p/book/9780415969178},
	author = {Hoover, Stewart M. and Clark, Lynn Schofield and Alters, Diane F.}
}
