BOOKS
Ward, M., Sr. (2025). Inside evangelicalism: The culture of conservative white Christianity.
Ward, M., Sr. (Ed.) (2023). God Talk: The Problem of Divine-Human Communication.
Ward, M., Sr. (2022). Introduction to public speaking: An inductive approach.
Ward, M., Sr. (2017). The Lord’s radio: Gospel music broadcasting and the making of evangelical culture, 1920-1960.
Ward, M., Sr. (Ed.). (2016). The electronic church in the digital age: Cultural impacts of evangelical mass media, Vol. 1: How evangelical media shapes evangelical culture.
Ward, M., Sr. (Ed.). (2016). The electronic church in the digital age: Cultural impacts of evangelical mass media, Vol. 2: How evangelical media engages American culture.
Wrench, J., Punyanunt-Carter, N., & Ward, M., Sr. (2015). Organizational communication: Theory, research, and practice.
Ward, M., Sr. (2014). Deadly documents: Organizational discourse, technical communication, and the Holocaust.
Articles
Ward, M., Sr, (2025). “My life after I received Christ”: The mediatization of evangelical conversion testimonies. Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, 37, 1-29 [online publication].
Ward, M., Sr. (2025). “Yes, that’s the book for me!”: Ethnographic insights on white evangelical biblicism. The Bible and Interpretation [online journal].
Ward, M., Sr., & Spencer, L. G. (2024). The road from Teamsterville: Locating alternate approaches to the ethnography of communication. Communication Quarterly, 72 (5), 480-502.
Ward, M., Sr. (2023). “Christian worldview”: A defining symbolic term of the American evangelical speech code. Journal of Communication and Religion, 46 (3), 5-28.
Ward, M., Sr. (2022). “All scripture is inspired by God”: The culture of biblical literalism in an evangelical church. Journal of Communication and Religion, 45 (1), 86-110. Ward, M., Sr., Spencer, L. G., Stewart, C. O., & Varela, E. M. (2022). Return to Teamsterville: A reconsideration and dialogue on ethnography and critique. Communication Quarterly, 70 (1), 84-106. Ward, M., Sr. (2021). Gendering by design: The visual language of essentialism in evangelical material culture. Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion , 17 (3), 1-29. Ward, M., Sr. (2020). “Knowledge puffs up”: The evangelical culture of anti-intellectualism as a local strategy. Sermon Studies, 4, 1-21. Sermons as social interaction: Pulpit speech, power, and gender. Women and Language, 42 (2), 285-316. Ward, M., Sr. (2019). A new kind of church: The religious media conglomerate as a “denomination.” Journal of Media and Religion, 17 (3/4), 117-133.
Ward, M., Sr. (2018). “Men” and “ladies”: An archaeology of gendering in the evangelical church. Journal of Communication and Religion, 41 (4), 114-134.
Ward, M., Sr. (2018). Is a cake just a cake? A lesson in semiotics. Citizen Critics, December 19. [online journal]
Ward, M., Sr. (2018). “Head knowledge isn’t enough”: Bible visualization and congregational culture in an evangelical church. Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion, 14 (11), 1-33.
Ward, M., Sr. (2018). Digital religion and media economics: Concentration and convergence in the electronic church. Journal of Religion, Media, and Digital Culture, 7, 90-120.
Ward, M., Sr. (2018). Are evangelicals having their #MeToo moment? Communication Currents, May 25. [online journal]
Ward, M., Sr. (2018). Billy Graham and the power of media celebrity. Communication Currents, March 15. [online journal]
Ward, M., Sr. (2015). Organization and religion: Ontological, epistemological, and axiological foundations for an emerging field. Journal of Communication and Religion, 38 (4), 5-29.
Ward, M., Sr. (2015). The PowerPoint and the glory: An ethnography of pulpit media and its organizational impacts. Journal of Media and Religion, 14, 175-195.
Ward, M., Sr. (2015). Cognition, culture, and charity: Sociolinguistics and “donor dissonance” in a Baptist denomination. Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 26, 574-603.
Ward, M., Sr. (2014). Give the winds a mighty voice: Evangelical culture as radio ecology. Journal of Radio and Audio Media, 21, 115-133.
Ward, M., Sr. (2012). Consolidating the gospel: The impact of the 1996 Telecommunications Act on religious radio ownership. Journal of Media and Religion, 11, 11-30.
Ward, M., Sr. (2010). “I was saved at an early age”: An ethnography of fundamentalist speech and cultural performance. Journal of Communication and Religion, 33, 108-144.
Ward, M., Sr. (2010). Avatars and sojourners: Explaining the acculturation of newcomers to multiplayer online games as cross-cultural adaptations. Journal of Intercultural Communication, 23. [online journal]
Ward, M., Sr. (2010). The ethic of exigence: Information design, postmodern ethics, and the Holocaust. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 24, 60-90.
Ward, M., Sr. (2009). Fundamentalist differences: Using ethnography of rhetoric to analyze a community of practice. Intercultural Communication Studies, 18, 1-20.
Ward, M., Sr. (2009). Dark preachers: The impact of radio consolidation on independent religious syndicators. Journal of Media and Religion, 8, 79-96.
Ward, M., Sr. (2009). Squaring the learning circle: Cross-classroom collaborations and the impact of audience on student outcomes in professional writing. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 23, 61-82.
CHAPTERS
Ward, M., Sr. (2024). Speech codes in private, locally public, and communal speaking. In G. Philipsen & T. Hart (Eds.), Contending with codes in a world of difference: Transforming a theory of human communication Ward, M., Sr. (2024). “It’s a design God built”: Gender essentialism and organizational identification in the local church. In A. Kurylo & Y. Hu (Eds.), Communicated stereotypes at work
Ward, M., Sr. (2023). Introduction: “A possible relationship between belief and knowledge.” In M. Ward Sr. (Ed.), God talk: The problem of divine-human communication (pp. 1-18). Peter Lang. Ward, M., Sr. (2023). Toward a theory of divine communication? Prospects and problems. In M. Ward Sr. (Ed.), God talk: The problem of divine-human communication
Ward, M., Sr. (2022). Up in the air: Media access and religious freedom. In K. A. Johnson & J. Asenas (Eds.), Equal protection v. religious freedom: Clashing American rights Ward, M., Sr. (2022). Don’t mess with (Anglo) Texas: Dominant cultural values in heritage sites of the Texas Revolution. In C. Rex & S. E. Watson (Eds.), Public memory, race, and heritage tourism of early America Ward, M., Sr. (2021). Televangelism. In G. Ritzer & C. Rojek (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd ed. Ward, M., Sr. (2020). Air to the Kingdom: Religion and the soul of radio. In J. A. Hendricks (Ed.), Radio’s second century: A reader Rutgers University Press. Ward, M., Sr. (2020). The apology sermon: Jimmy Swaggart’s mea culpa. In E. C. Miller & J. J. Edwards (Eds.), The Protestant sermon in America: Pulpit rhetoric at the turn of the millennium (pp. 39-61). Lexington.
Ward, M., Sr. (2020). “From a Christian perspective”: News/talk in evangelical mass media. In A. M. Nadler & A. J. Bauer (Eds.), News on the right: Studying conservative news cultures (pp. 17-46). Oxford University Press.
Ward, M., Sr. (2019). Increase your faith: The domestication of black televangelism. In O. O. Banjo (Ed.), Media across the African diaspora: Content, audiences, and influence
Ward, M., Sr. (2018). Martin Luther: Avoiding the use of “othering” to construct Christian self-identity in a pluralistic society. In R. H. Woods Jr. & N. K. Wood (Eds.), Words and witnesses: Communication studies in Christian thought from Athanasius to Desmond Tutu
Ward, M., Sr. (2018). The woman they love to hate: Hillary Clinton and the evangelicals. In C. A. Kray, T. W. Carroll & H. Mandell (Eds.), Nasty women and bad hombres: Gender and race in the 2016 U.S. presidential election
Ward, M., Sr. (2018). The dangers of getting what you wished for: What do you say to evangelicals? In S-L. S. Chen, N. Allaire & Z. J. Chen (Eds.), Constructing narratives in response to Trump’s election: How various populations make sense of an unexpected victory (pp. 61-81). Lexington. Ward, M., Sr. (2018). Television transcendent: How the electronic church constructs charismatic leadership as a norm of American religious life. In C. Murray (Ed.), Leadership through the lens: Interrogating production, presentation, and power . Lanham, MD: Lexington.
Ward, M., Sr. (2018). Segregating the dial: Institutional racism in evangelical radio. In O. O. Banjo & K. M. Williams (Eds.), Contemporary Christian Culture: Messages, missions, and dilemmas
Ward, M., Sr. (2016). Televangelism, audience fragmentation, and the changing coverage of scandal. In H. Mandell & G. M. Chen (Eds.), Scandal in a digital age (pp. 53-68). Palgrave MacMillan.
Ward, M., Sr. (2016). In spirit or in truth? The great evangelical divide, from analog to digital. In M. Ward Sr. (Ed.), The electronic church in the digital age: Cultural impacts of evangelical mass media, Vol. 1 Praeger.
Ward, M., Sr. (2016). What if? A counterfactual reconsideration of the electronic church. In M. Ward Sr. (Ed.), The electronic church in the digital age: Cultural impacts of evangelical mass media, Vol. 2 . Praeger.
Ward, M., Sr. (2016). Chronology of the electronic church. In M. Ward Sr. (Ed.), The electronic church in the digital age: Cultural impacts of evangelical mass media, Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 (pp. 253-268). Praeger.
Ward, M., Sr. (2016). Major networks and personalities. In M. Ward Sr. (Ed.), The electronic church in the digital age: Cultural impacts of evangelical mass media, Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 (pp. 269-298). Praeger.
Ward, M., Sr. (2013). Managing the anxiety and uncertainty of religious otherness: Interfaith dialogue as a problem of intercultural communication. In D. S. Brown Jr. (Ed.), A communication perspective on interfaith dialogue Lexington.
Ward, M., Sr. (2013). The “God Problem” in interfaith dialogue: Situating divine speech in the seven traditions of communication theory. In D. S. Brown Jr. (Ed.), A communication perspective on interfaith dialogue (pp. 195-213). Lexington.
Ward, M., Sr. (2013). Air of the King: Evangelicals and radio. In R. H. Woods Jr. (Ed.), Evangelical Christians and popular culture: Pop goes the gospel, Vol. 1: Film, Radio, Television, and the Internet . Praeger.
