SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

• Ward, M., Sr. (Ed.) (2023). God Talk: The Problem of Divine-Human Communication. Peter Lang.
• Ward, M., Sr. (2022). Introduction to public speaking: An inductive approach. FlatWorld.
• Ward, M., Sr. (2017). The Lord’s radio: Gospel music broadcasting and the making of evangelical culture, 1920-1960. McFarland.
• 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. Praeger.
• 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. Praeger.
• Wrench, J., Punyanunt-Carter, N., & Ward, M., Sr. (2015). Organizational communication: Theory, research, and practice. FlatWorld.
• Ward, M., Sr. (2014). Deadly documents: Organizational discourse, technical communication, and the Holocaust. Routledge.

Articles

• Ward, M., Sr. (in press). “Christian worldview”: A Defining Symbolic Term of the American Evangelical Speech Code. Journal of Communication and Religion, 46(3).
• 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.
• Ward, M., Sr. (2019). 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. (in press). Speech codes in private, locally public, and communal speaking. In G. Philipsen & T. Hart (Eds.), Communication at ground zero: Contending codes in a world of difference. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
• Ward, M., Sr. (in press). “It’s a design God built”: Gender essentialism and organizational identification in the local church. In A. Kurylo & Y. Hu (Eds.), Dirty work: Communicating stereotypes in professional settings. Lexington.
• 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 (pp. 141-157). Peter Lang.
• 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 (pp. 357-386). Peter Lang.
• 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 (pp. 104-120). Routledge.
• Ward, M., Sr. (2021). Televangelism. In G. Ritzer & C. Rojek (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd ed. Wiley-Blackwell. 
• 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 (pp. 137-153). 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 (pp. 18-34). Routledge.
• 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 (pp. 76-82). Hendrickson.
• 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 (pp. 175-188). University of Rochester Press.
• 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 (pp. 131-149). 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 (pp. 45-56). Lexington.
• 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 (pp. 193-218). 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 (pp. 1-28).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 (pp. 239-254) & 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 (pp. 255-284) & 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 (pp. 23-43). 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 (pp. 101-118). Praeger.