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Horsfield, Janet Jacobs, Klaus Jensen, Elihu Katz, Barbro Klein, Shawn
Landres, Brian Larkin, Patty Limerick, Alf Linderman, Sonia Livingstone, Mia
Lövheim, Jim Lull, Knut Lundby, Dennis McGilvray, Bill McKinney, Jeffrey
Mahan, Martin Marty, Carolyn Marvin, Adán Medrano, Birgit Meyer, Jolyon
Mitchell, David Morgan, Horace Newcomb, Thorleif Petterson, Sally Promey,
Clark Roof, Michele Rosenthal, Eric Rothenbuhler, Ellen Seiter, Roger
Silverstone, Joyce Smith, Judith Stacey, Dan Stout, Rebecca Sullivan, Göran
Therborn, Günter Thomas, Pradip Thomas, Sham Thomas, Steve Warner,
Hillary Warren, Michael Welker, Diane Winston, Mallory Wober, Linda
Woodhead, Bob Wuthnow, Barbie Zelizer, and Angela Zito. I give my apolo-
gies to anyone who I have neglected to include. Many of these inputs, and
many other helpful conversations, took place at conferences, including the
International Communication Association, the International Association for
Media and Communication Research, the Association of Internet Researchers,
the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the
American Academy of Religion, and the Society for the Scientific Study of
Religion. Specialized venues have been of particular help, and I wish to
express gratitude to the planners of conferences on media and religion,
including the periodic Conferences on Media, Religion, and Culture in
Boulder, Edinburgh, and Louisville, and specialized meetings in Uppsala,
Sweden, Heidelberg, Germany, and Jyväskylä, Finland, as well as the
International Study Commission on Media, Religion, and Culture, which has
been supported by grants from the Stichting Porticus Foundation.
This book is among the first in a new series on Media and Religion, and
I wish to thank my series co-editors, David Morgan and Jolyon Mitchell,
for their efforts in that series and their helpful reviews of this project. In
addition, I want to acknowledge Roger Thorp, the Routledge editor who
first envisioned the series and a role for this book in it, and of course our
current series editor, Lesley Riddle.
Finally, one’s family always has a particular role to play in projects like
this one. In an earlier book, I noted that my father, Wilbur R. Hoover
(who died while this one was in progress), deserves credit for igniting my
interest in media through his own interest in the news, my interest in
scholarship through his own scholarly sensibilities, and my interest in reli-
gion through his role as my pastor and religious mentor. To my mother,
siblings, in-laws, and nieces and nephews, I give my thanks for their eager
consumption of the things I write and say. It is good to have those closest
to you appreciate what you do. Finally, my wife, Karen, remains my
hiking, skiing, and traveling companion, soulmate and partner. Her
support throughout this project was essential.
Stewart M. Hoover
Arapaho Ranch, Colorado