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Drawing On Fascinating Research Into Household Media Consumption Stewart M. Hoover Charts The Way In Which Media And Religion Intermingle And Collide In The Cultural Experience Of Media Audiences. The Result Will Be Essential Reading For Everyone Interested In How Today's Mass Media Relate To Contemporary Religious And Spiritual Life.--jacket. What This Book Could Be About -- From Medium To Meaning: The Evolution Of Theories About Media, Religion, And Culture -- Media And Religion In Transition -- Articulating Life And Culture In The Media Age: Plausible Narratives Of The Self -- Reception Of Religion And Media -- Cultural Objects And Religious Identity Among Born-agains And Mainstream Believers -- Cultural Objects And Religious Identity Among Metaphysical Believers, Dogmatists, And Secularists -- Representing Outcomes -- Media And Public Religious Culture Post-09/11/01 And Post-11/2/04 -- Conclusion: What Is Produced? Stewart M. Hoover. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [317]-330) And Index.