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14 See, for example, the large body of work by Robert Wuthnow, such as Wuthnow
2003, which combined interviews with social survey instruments.
15 Examples might be enumerated a great length. Lynch 2007 and Clark 2003
serve to signal the range of recent work.
16 One of the early and widely influential studies that helped turn the corner for
many scholars of media and religion was Warner 1993.
17 For discussion of this change and its relevance for the study of media, see Hoover
2006: 50–66. For a variety of reflections about religion and its conceptualization,
especially in regard to the study of media, see De Vries 2007.
18 A call for and preliminary conceptualization of this research area is Meyer 2006a.
Meyer and Verrips develop the approach in their contribution to this volume,
“Aesthetics.” See also Verrips 2006. Consideration of a popular aesthetic of
mass-produced religious imagery occurs in Morgan 1998: 29–58.
19 Important recent historical studies of religion and media include Winston 1999,
Peters 1999, Hangen 2002, Hendershot 2004, and Rosenthal 2007.
20 In addition to several items listed in previous notes, see Pike 2001; Hofmeyr
2004; Asamoah-Gyadu 2005; Stolow 2005; Sumlala-Seppänen and Stocchetti
2005; Chidester 2005; Meyer 2006a; Schulz 2006; Hoover 2006; Mitchell
2006; Klassen 2006; Morgan 2007; Mitchell 2006; and Zito 2007.