Stewart M. Hoover is Professor of Media Studies and Religious Studies, and Director of the Center for Media, Religion, and Culture at the University of Colorado. He is the author, co-author, or editor of twelve books, including most recently Media, Spiritualities and Social Change. Curtis D. Coats is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Millsaps College (MS).
Focuses the lenses of feminist analysis on critical cultural
audience studies. Hoover and Coatss research is deeply invested in
the work accomplished at the nexus of media, religion, and gender,
most specifically examining the shape of twenty-first-century
white, middle-class, heterosexual American masculinities. In this
illuminating book, media and religion coexist as alternative and
intersecting symbolic worlds. They contribute to the construction
of a contemporary 'elemental' masculinity that elicits and deploys
commitments to vocations of 'provision, protection, and purpose.'
This is a model volume with important and surprising
conclusions!
*Sally M. Promey, Yale University*
Over the past two centuries men in the United States have bemoaned
the decline of virility, singling out as the root cause such deep
shifts as the expansion of urban life, the loss of agrarian values,
the closing of the frontier, the rise of womens rights, and the
decline of the traditional family. Hoover and Coats show us that
the tradition of the manly jeremiad continues today, taking shape
in the broadly influential media that touch the hopes, dreams,
memories, and fears of fathers and sons holed up in the sanctum of
what the authors calls 'the domestic ideal.' The interviews they
undertake demonstrate that religion is not merely a source of
traditional values, ballast against the storm on conventional
gender roles. It can also generate ambivalence about traditional
constructions of gender. And media, for their part, are variously
regarded as cause of moral decay and beloved source of gender
ideals. There is much to learn from this clear, well-informed
account of white male, mediated religious sentiment.
*David Morgan, Duke University*
In this important contribution to scholarship on
communication/media and religion, Hoover and Coats report their
ongoing research on the intersection of gender, media, and religion
against the backdrop of a perceived ongoing crisis of masculinity
in contemporary US culture.
*Choice*
This work succeeds in the continued problematization of the
apparently & traditionalist notion that religious identities can
provide an element of stability to masculine identities.
*The Journal of Religion and Culture*
Does God Make the Man? is primarily written for those studying the
intersection of media and religion. There is an assumption that the
reader will be somewhat familiar with feminist theory, including a
basic understanding of gender constructivism. Overall, this book is
approachable for the interested reader wanting to understand more
about the influences of media on communication and meaning-making
in society ... This book shows how complicated the influences are
at the crossroads of media and religion.
*Priscilla Papers*
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