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Globalizing Communication/journalism Studies

Shelton A Gunaratne (ed.)

International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 5 (2015), pp. 409-515

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Religion, Hate Speech and Social Media in Myanmar: Analysing Methods of Intervention

Bethany Davis

Master Thesis University of Winchester (2015), 77 pp.

"Myanmar is home to one of the longest running intrastate conflicts in the world, involving a series of ethnic and religious clashes that have caused harm to all parties involved. The ideology of a homogeneity based on Buddhism and the Bamar ethnicity has marginalized minority groups, which make up ... more

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Enlightening Communication Analysis in Asia-Pacific: Media Studies, Ethics and Law Using a Buddhist Perspective

Mark Pearson

International Communication Gazette, volume 77, issue 5 (2015), pp. 456-470

"A Western paradigm has dominated approaches to communication and journalism studies – particularly in the areas of theory, analysis and law and ethics. This article backgrounds important critiques of that paradigm, and considers how globalized communication and media studies has become, before ex ... more

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Media and Religious Communication in Multi-Cultural Asia: An Eclectic Research Agenda

Binod C. Agrawal (ed.)

Manila: University of Santo Tomas Publishing House (2015), xviii, 180 pp.

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Development and Communication in Sri Lanka: A Buddhist Approach

Wimal Dissanayake

In: The Global Intercultural Communication Reader

Molefi Kete Asante, Yoshitaka Miike, Jing Yin (eds.)

New York; London: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2014), pp. 467-479

"According to Dissanayake, the Sarvodaya movement encompasses the ideal of the harmonious social order and the principle of self-reliance and self-transformation as envisioned and encouraged by Buddhist teaching. The Sarvodaya movement also duly asserts that the idea of development should include no ... more

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Communication Technology Impacts Thai Culture and Buddhist Way of Life

Samran Khansamrong

Religion and Social Communication, volume 11, issue 2 (2013), pp. 108-120

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The Rediscovery of Religious Silence in the Social Media Era: A Korean Case

Ignatius Kim Min-soo

Religion and Social Communication, volume 11, issue 2 (2013), pp. 138-154

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Clouds of Unknowing: Buddhism and Bhutanese Cinema

Shohini Chaudhuri, Sue Clayton

In: Storytelling in World Cinemas. Vol. 2: Contexts

Lina Khatib (ed.)

London; New York: Wallflower Press (2013), pp. 157-171

"In this chapter, we have looked at how Buddhism and orality have been translated into film in Bhutan. We have argued, that cinema operates as a secondary oral medium, through the various rituals of production, distribution and consumption and, most significantly, at the level of story construction. ... more

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Religion and Public Diplomacy

Philip Seib (ed.)

New York et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), x, 224 pp.

"Mixing religion and public diplomacy can produce volatile results, but in a world in which the dissemination and influence of religious beliefs are enhanced by new communications technologies, religion is a factor in many foreign policy issues and must be addressed. Faith is such a powerful part of ... more

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Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds

Heidi A. Campbell (ed.)

Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2013), xi, 272 pp.

"Digital Religion offers a critical and systematic survey of the study of religion and new media. It covers religious engagement with a wide range of new media forms and highlights examples of new media engagement in all five of the major world religions. From cell phones and video games to blogs an ... more

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Mobile Mindfulness: Practicing Digital Religion on Smartphones with Buddhist Meditation Apps

Joanna Piacenza

Master Thesis University of Colorado (2013), iv, 92 pp.

"In this thesis, I introduce and focus on the term “mobile mindfulness,” arguing that David McMahan’s elements of Buddhist modernism are intensified when practicing religion on the smartphone. These “mobile mindfulness” characteristics include the creation of transient experimental places ... more

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Storytelling in World Cinemas. Vol. 2: Contexts

Lina Khatib (ed.)

London; New York: Wallflower Press (2013), x, 198 pp.

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Fundamentalism in the Modern World. Vol. 2: Fundamentalism and Communication: Culture, Media and the Public Sphere

Ulrika Mårtensson, Jennifer Bailey, Priscilla Ringrose, Asbjorn Dyrendal (eds.)

London; New York: Tauris (2011), xi, 349 pp.

"How does religious fundamentalism operate in modern global society? This two-volume series analyses the dynamics of fundamentalism and its relationship to the modern state, the public sphere and globalisation. This second volume explores the links between fundamentalism and communication: the rise ... more

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Religion and Celebrity

Carol M. Cusack (ed.)

Australian Religion Studies Review, volume 24, issue 3 (2011), pp. 227-360

"This issue of Australian Religion Studies Review examines the intersection of religion and celebrity, both major discourses in the modern world. The six articles examine the imbrication of celebrity with: three traditional religions, Christianity, Islam and Buddhism; the new religion of Candomblé; ... more

Cyber-Buddhism: Fundamentalism, the Internet and the Public Sphere in Thailand

Sonja Hongladarom, Krisadawan Hongladarom

In: Fundamentalism in the Modern World. Vol. 2: Fundamentalism and Communication: Culture, Media and the Public Sphere

Ulrika Mårtensson, Jennifer Bailey, Priscilla Ringrose, Asbjorn Dyrendal (eds.)

London; New York: Tauris (2011), pp. 216-236

"In the case of contemporary Buddhism, we have seen how fundamentalism and democracy are connected to each other, and also how the public sphere, mediated by the new technology of the internet, has a role to play in these relations. We have seen how groups such as the 'Santi Asoke' are succeeding de ... more

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The Routledge Companion to Religion and Film

John Lyden (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2009), xiv, 503 pp.

The Continuum Companion to Religion and Film

William L. Blizek (ed.)

London: Continuum (2009), x, 426 pp.

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Medialisierung des Dalai Lama: Vom Bauernjungen zum buddhistischen Superstar. Eine kurze Übersicht

Daniela Kurzke

In: Religion und Massenmedien

Maud E. Sieprath (ed.)

Berlin: Weißensee-Verlag (2009), pp. 231-247

"Dieser Beitrag vermittelt einen Einblick in das mediale Leben des Dalai Lama und zeichnet die Entwicklung vom einfachen Bauernjungen zur heutigen "Marke" Dalai Lama nach. Besonderes Augenmerk liegt auf seinen Auslandsreisen, die ihn in Kontakt mit sowohl religiösen Anhängern als auch hochrangigen ... more

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Spirit Cinema: Handbuch des spirituellen Films

Jürgen Lipp, Frank M. Schenker

Berlin: Allegria (2008), 351 pp.

"Die 300 wichtigsten Spielfilme, Dokumentationen und TV-Movies mit spirituellem Hintergrund, ausführlich vorgestellt und besprochen mit Photos, Filmographie und Bezugsquellen-Hinweisen. Dazu Porträts der wichtigsten deutschen und internationalen Regisseure, Hintergründe der Filmentstehung und Reg ... more