Symbolism, Media, and the Lifecourse

This was an interdisciplinary study, funded by the Lilly Endowment that continued from 1996 to 2001. It focused on the meaning of media in family and household contexts, looking particularly at how what the late media scholar Roger Silverstone called “the moral economy of the household” is a function of both religious and media cultures.

These two projects resulted in a number of journal articles and conference presentations, as well as three books: Media, Home and Family by Stewart M. Hoover, Lynn Schofield Clark, Diane Alters, Joseph Champ, and Lee Hood (Routledge, 2004); From Angels to Aliens, Teenagers, the Media, and the Supernatural, by Lynn Schofield Clark (Oxford, 2003); and Religion in the Media Age by Stewart M. Hoover (Routledge, 2006).