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Religion in the News
Faith and Journalism in American Public Discourse



June 2012 | 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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