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Russian Church in the Digital Era: Mediatization of Orthodoxy

Hanna Stähle

Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge (2022), xii, 224 pp.

"Has Russia abandoned its atheist past and embraced Orthodox Christianity as its new moral guide? The reality is more complex and contradictory. Digital sources provide evidence of rising domestic criticism of the Russian Orthodox Church and its leadership. This book offers a nuanced understanding o ... more

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Orthodoxes Fernsehen in Russland

Xenia Loutchenko

Religion & Gesellschaft in Ost und West, issue 10 (2015), pp. 11-13

"Seit August 2015 ist der Fernsehsender Spas des Moskauer Patriarchats in fast allen Haushalten Russlands zu empfangen. Seine bewegte Vorgeschichte, Gerüchte über Verbindungen zu US-amerikanischen konservativen Kreisen sowie ein neues Nachrichtenprogramm legen enge Verbindungen mit dem "orthodoxen ... more

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Religious Impact on Journalistic Cultures: Reading Materials

Victor M. Khroul (ed.)

Moscow: Faculty of Journalism Lomonosov Moscow State University (2014), 188 pp.

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Heretics: Iran’s Religious Minorities

James Marchant, Liana Aghajanian

Small Media (2014), 148 pp.

"With this report we explore how different religious minorities in Iran use the internet to engage with their communities in Iran and around the world. To build a representative picture, we drew on diverse sources, piecing together historical accounts, content analysis, legal frameworks, and the voi ... more

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Emerging Christian Media in Egypt: Clerical Authority and the Visualization of Women in Coptic Video Films

Febe Armanios

International Journal of Middle East Studies, volume 45, issue 3 (2013), pp. 513-533

"This article examines the depiction of women and gender within Coptic Orthodox video films or “hagiopics” produced between 1987 and 2010. As part of a recent religious renewal, hagiopics have expanded, altered, and reinvented traditional stories of saints and pious figures and have also generat ... more

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Religion, Gewalt und Medien: Die serbisch-orthodoxe Kirchenpresse in den postjugoslawischen Kriegen

Irena Zeltner Pavlovic

Erlangen: Christliche Publizistik Verlag (CPV) (2013), 428 pp.

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Religious Diaspora and Information Communications Technology: The Impact of Globalization on Communal Relations in Egypt

Fiona McCallum

In: The New Arab Media: Technology, Image and Perception

Mahjoob Zweiri, Emma C. Murphy (eds.)

Reading: Ithaca Press (2012), pp. 81-101

"The age-old Coptic balancing act of proving that they are patriotic Egyptians while retaining a strong attachment to their religious and cultural identity has become harder in the globalization era, when specific individuals and groups based on another continent can affect the domestic political en ... more

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Media and Religion in Romania: Three Contexts and a Discussion

Romina Surugiu

European Journal of Science and Theology, volume 8, issue 4 (2012), pp. 205-213

"The paper analyses the relation between media and the Eastern Orthodox religion - the dominant religion in Romania. We will examine three contexts: (1) the existing sociological theories on religion and their relevance for understanding the Orthodox world today, (2) the religious media and (3) the ... more

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Pilgrimage Phenomenon in the New Context of Post-Communist Romanian Media

Mihaela-Simona Apostol

ESSACHESS: Journal for Communication Studies, volume 4, issue 8 (2011), pp. 127-143

"Twenty years after the fall of communism in Romania, there are two main pilgrimages that dominate the Orthodox religious environment: the pilgrimage to Saint Parascheva of Iasi and the pilgrimage to Saint Dumitru cel Nou, Basarabov in Bucharest. These two pilgrimages are practiced in old sacred cen ... more

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Encyclopedia of Religion, Communication, and Media
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Daniel A. Stout (ed.)

New York: Routledge (2006), xx, 467 pp.

"This volume breaks down disciplinary walls in numerous ways. First, it combines information about the intrapersonal, interpersonal, group, and societal levels of communication into a single resource. At the intrapersonal level, new issues are raised about communication between individuals and deity ... : Why is religious experience difficult to explain in rational terms? Why is silence more sacred than spoken prayer in some religious communities? What is the nature of “thought communication” in religious meditation? Why is the use of profanity justified in some religious circles? How does idolatry reinforce religious customs and values? Why was chanting one of the first forms of religious communication? Religious information is also exchanged between individuals at the level of interpersonal communication. This volume identifies rituals that have not been adequately analyzed in terms of communication aspects: Why do some sects require public confession? Why is body decoration an acceptable form of worship in some religious groups, but not in others? How does dance communicate the sacred through metaphoric movement? What are the multiple forms of communication with the dead? Why are feasts a form of religious worship in all major religions? How does the study of organizational communication apply to religion? This volume also aids study of mediated communication to larger groups both inside and outside religious denominations. Throughout history, technology has simultaneously aided and impeded communication processes; this also applies to religious culture: How did religion change during the historical transition from orality to literacy? How did printing contribute to the diffusion of religious values in the world? Why have religious novels grown in popularity? Is television considered a religious medium? How has the Internet affected religious congregations and communities? What is religious media literacy? These are only a few of the questions addressed by this encyclopedia. Articles also deal with (1) concepts such as information, communication, and censorship, (2) denominations which exhibit different communication practices, and (3) the various media used in religious worship. Entries were contributed by scholars from various disciplines, including religious studies, communication, anthropology, sociology, ancient studies, religion and modern culture, theology, and many others." (Introduction, page xiii-xiv) more

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