Religion in the News

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Stewart M. Hoover - University of Southern California College

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Mass Communication (General)

August 1998 | 248 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

Stewart M Hoover offers a cultural-historical analysis of the rise of religious stories in the media - the Islamic Revolution in Iran, televangelism and its scandals, the political agenda of the Evangelical New Right, to name but a few.

The author's penetrating analysis brings into sharp focus: the relationship between religion and the news media, both in everyday practice and in the larger context of American public discourse; 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.

Religion in the News

Approaches to Understanding

Discourses of Contemporary Religion

The Source of the Problem?

Looking at Religion

Reading and Watching Religion

The Audience for Religion

Religion and the Media in Conflict

Religion and Broadcasting

The Challenge of Standards

To BE the Discourse, or Merely To COVER It

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