Stewart Hoover
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Professor of media and religion

Stewart Mark Hoover is a Professor of Media Studies and Professor Adjoint of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the founder and director of the Center for Media, Religion and Culture. His research interest centers on media audience and reception studies rooted in cultural studies, anthropology and qualitative sociology. He is known for his work on media and religion, particularly in the phenomenon of televangelism, and later in religion journalism. His most recent work involves household-level studies of media audience practices of meaning-making and identity. Supported by a series of grants from the Lilly Endowment and the Ford Foundation, this work investigates the extent to which the media sphere as a whole and the various media which comprise it constitute a central site of meaning practice in contemporary domestic and global life. Through the center he directs, he has also become influential in scholarly discourses about the public understanding and role of religion globally and the ways those are rooted in its mediation. .. more

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We Need to Think Straight About God and Politics www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/o...

Well done. I’d have added Jimmy Kimmel’s invocation of faith on his return in the list of recent examples. Otherwise only the right has such language. That’s one of the causes of the problem @nytdavidbrooks
Opinion | We Need to Think Straight About God and Politics
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I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Charlie Kirk’s ultimate goal, which he said time and time again, would have been the suppression, through threat of violence and the use of state power, of the rights of those he disagreed with, including freedom of expression.

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Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
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Reposted by Stewart M. Hoover

Makes me really wonder who the Times thinks their readers are..
The NYT suddenly notices surprising things about the Evangelical vote…it’s about “identity” more than theology…oh yes, and church attendance is declining…who knew? Shocking!

My home town in the news *again* for being in Trump’s crosshairs.., second time this week. What’s next?

Medicaid cuts in Trump tax bill could close 6 rural hospitals in Colorado, report warns

@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social finally notices @jeffsharlet.bsky.social Maybe if he’d been reading Jeff earlier David wouldn’t have been so surprised about what’s been happening on the Religious Right…

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The problem of the Christian assassin
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gcaptain.com/bankruptcy-o.... A lesson for all of us in the time of Trump and the “tech bros..” Do we need a more vivid example of the dangers of unbridled entrepreneurial hubris than the Titan disaster? No…we can’t just follow the technology where it supposedly leads us.
Bankruptcy or Bust: Financial Desperation Doomed the Titan Sub
Unveiling the shocking truth behind OceanGate's catastrophic implosion and the compromising decisions driven by dire financial situation.
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We know at least some of the cardinals saw this image....did the Vatican just join Canada and Australia in having an "anti-Trump" election? inquiring minds....

I’ll admit to anti-Christian bias: I’m biased against Christian snowflakes who can’t stand to be confronted about the contradictions between the Gospel and *their* biases…

Pleased to see the arrival of the new Second Edition of my book *Religion in the Media Age* (London: Routledge)

This is the realization of a long strategy by the State of Israel. Those trips for pious Christians during which they met none of the actual Christians living there but came away with brimming support for the Jewish state and its implicit plans for the territories… www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/w...
Christians Are Pressing Trump to Clear a Path for Israel to Annex the West Bank
Some 80 percent of white, evangelical Christians voted for President Trump. Now, some want a policy change that could undermine a future Palestinian state.
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Mt. McKinley from the air this morning.. the Gods have decreed that we won’t see again until Trump changes the name back to Denali…

Sure its fine as long as we keep remembering that, as a discipline, evonomics is moral theology masquerading as social science…https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/opinion/jay-bhattacharya-nih.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Opinion | How Jay Bhattacharya, the First Health Economist Tapped to Run the N.I.H., Can Lead Reform
Can Dr. Jay Bhattacharya reform America’s primary medical research agency?
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I'm afraid this piece does not make a convincing case that US secularization is "on hold." As with so many accounts, it also confuses what it actually means by "religion."

One Nation, Under God www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/b...
One Nation, Under God
Americans have stopped leaving Christianity. And the country is overwhelmingly spiritual, a new report found.
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Another effort from the NYT to explain American religion which unfortunately misunderstands and misreads its object…it says secularization is “on hold”…?