Research

Thanks to a collaboration with StoryCorps and Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, we hosted the recordings of dialogues on religion and culture in Colorado in November 2023. These stories exhibited some of the diversity of religious idenity and perspectives in our community, including among CMRC...

The second issue of the Center for Media, Religion, and Culture’s pamphlet series, RHYTHMS , is now available. Download narrow view Download wide view

This exciting volume explores how religious meaning is generated and performed in our present digital media ecosystem. It uses the spatial metaphor of a third space to visualize the mobility of everyday religion and to explore the dynamic ways in which contemporary subjects imagine, produce, and navigate new religious and...

On 11/30/2022, the Center for Media, Religion and Culture will host an event at Ice Overlook in the CU Rec Center to celebrate the launch of our new publication, Rhythms . Last year, the fellows of the Center for Media, Religion and Culture, challenged themselves with a provocative question: Why...

The first issue of the Center for Media, Religion, and Culture’s pamphlet series, RHYTHMS , is now available. Download

Supported by a $500,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Public Scholarship Project will assemble an interdisciplinary working group which will meet regularly and collaborate over a period of three years. The project Working Group includes prominent scholars from a variety of fields and disciplines. During this time, they...

By Stewart M. Hoover and Curtis D. Coats Many believe that religion plays a positive role in men’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...

The Center for Media, Religion and Culture completed a study funded by the Ford Foundation on the ways religion is represented, experienced and understood through the media today. The project, entitled “Finding Religion in the Media,” explored the extent to which religious belief, practice and action—particularly that directed at social...

The Center for Media, Religion and Culture is pleased to launch the Third Spaces Blog as a place to survey and reflect on contemporary mediations of religion and spirituality. Much of what we know of the “religious” is at least present in, if not actually generated in and by, the...

This project aims to broaden our understanding of cultural and technological convergence by exploring "media ambivalence,” namely, the reluctance of individuals and communities to embrace the so-called “digital imperative” whole heartedly, sometimes in limited, personal ways or in ideologically articulated practices. Beginning with the assumption that media ambivalence is implicated...