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A Missional Study of the Use of Social Media (Facebook) by Some Ghanaian Pentecostal Pastors

P. White, F. Tella, M. D. Ampofo
KOERS — Bulletin for Christian Scholarship, volume 81, issue 2 (2016), 8 pp.
"Social media as a new phenomenon has become a tool used by many televangelists and pastors all over the world. It is against this background that this research sought to explore the Facebook activities of some Ghanaian Pentecostal pastors from a missional perspective. The article deals with the con ... more
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The Media and Religious Authority

Stewart M. Hoover (ed.)
University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press (2016), viii, 296 pp.
"The contributors to The Media and Religious Authority examine the ways in which new centers of power and influence are emerging as religions seek to "brand" themselves in the media age. Putting their in-depth, incisive studies of particular instances of media production and reception in Asia, Afric ... more
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Educomunicação: Formação pastoral na cultura digital

Helena Corazza
São Paulo: Paulinas (2016), 167 pp.
"Esta obra pretende contribuir com a Educação para a Comunicação, Educomunicação, voltada à pastoral e ao ambiente educativo. A Educomunicação reúne os conceitos de educação e de comunicação embasados nos valores humanos e cidadãos, sendo o comprometimento social e de transformação ... more
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Himmel, Herrgott, Sakrament: Auftreten statt austreten

Rainer M. Schießler
München: Kösel (2016), 255 pp.
"Nicht nur gläubig, sondern glaubhaft »Auftreten statt austreten« – lautet der Appell von Rainer Maria Schießler. In einer Zeit, in der so viele Menschen wie nie die katholische Kirche verlassen, gelingt es dem bundesweit bekannten Münchner Stadtpfarrer, dass seine Gemeinde wächst und sich f ... more
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Laudato Si: Sobre el cuidado de nuestra casa común. Radionovela

Red Eclesial Panamazónica (REPAM) (2016), 212 pp.
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Archiving as History-Making: Religious Politics of Social Media in India

Sahana Udupa
Communication, Culture & Critique, volume 9, issue 2 (2016), pp. 212-230
"This article explores the case of right-wing Hindu nationalist volunteers in India, to turn a critical eye on a digital practice that has become prominent on new media in India in recent times-the assembling of facts, figures, and treatises as an ideological exercise by the net-savvy "nonexperts." ... more
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Assessing changes in the study of religious communities in digital religion studies

Heidi Campbell, Alessandra Vitullo
Church, Communication and Culture, volume 1, issue 1 (2016), pp. 73-89
"This article provides a focused review of researches undertaken within Digital religion studies in the last three decades, specifically highlighting how religious communities have been studied and approached within this area. It highlights the dominant theoretical and methodological approaches empl ... more
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Religion, Communications, and Judaism: The Case of Digital Chabad

Menahem Blondheim, Elihu Katz
Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 1 (2016), pp. 89-95
"In their article on 'Building the Sacred Community Online', Oren Golan and Nurit Stadler zoom in on the latest attempts of Chabad, the extrovert Jewish Hasidic group, to harness the newest digital technologies to propagate and popularize its staunchly traditionalist reading of Jewish heritage. Also ... more
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L’information religieuse: La news value de "proximite" comme criterie de "sortie vers les peripheries". Une confrontation entre l’information religieuse et l’information laïque

Dieudonné Niyibizi
Rome: Université Pontificale Salesienne, Faculté des Sciences de la Communication Sociale, Thèse de Licence (2016), 165 pp.
"Au second chapitre, nous avons vu que, dans l’ensemble, cette mission du journaliste se heurte à pas mal de défis dont l’identité, la qualité de l’audience, le contenu, ainsi la formation de ses agents. Le journaliste catholique travaille dans une entreprise qui, naturellement répond aux ... more
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Perils of Perception 2016: A 40-Country Study

Ipsos (2016), 30 slides
"These are the latest findings from the Ipsos Perils of Perception survey. The results highlight how wrong people across 40 countries are about some key issues and features of the population in their country. Perceptions are not reality… Nearly all countries overestimate their Muslim population, a ... more
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Friending God: Social Media, Spirituality and Community

Antonio Spadaro
New York: Crossroad Publishing Company (2016), 90 pp.
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A Digital Culture Ministry: A Case of the Korean Church

Ignatius Kim Min-soo
Religion and Social Communication, volume 14, issue 1 (2016), pp. 40-59
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A identidade do sacerdote midiático no ciberespaço

Valdir José Castro de
São Paulo: Pontificia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Doctoral Thesis (2016), 237 pp.
"Esta pesquisa tem por escopo averiguar como se dá a construção da identidade do sacerdote católico no ciberespaço no contexto da intersecção entre comunicação, cibercultura e religião. Considerando que a identidade é construída por meio de narrativas, a investigação tem por objetivo a ... more
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SIGNIS and Cinema: Looking for God Behind the Screen

Marek Lis (ed.)
Opole (PL); Brussels: Uniwersytet Opolski, Wydzial Teologiczny; Signis Europe (2016), 85 pp.
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Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and its Threat to Democracy

Cherian George
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2016), xviii, 308 pp.
"Outbreaks of religious intolerance are usually assumed to be visceral and spontaneous. But in 'Hate Spin', Cherian George shows that they often involve sophisticated campaigns manufactured by political opportunists to mobilize supporters and marginalize opponents. Right-wing networks orchestrate th ... more
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Networked Theology: Negotiating Faith in Digital Culture

Heidi A. Campbell, Stephen Garner
Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic (2016), x, 175 pp.
"This informed theology of communication and media analyzes how we consume new media and technologies and discusses the impact on our social and religious lives. Combining expertise in religion online, theology, and technology, the authors synthesize scholarly work on religion and the internet for a ... more
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Llegó aquí la palabra: La cosmovisión Maya, viva y difundida a través de los medios de comunicación comunitarios

Amalia Jiménez Galán, Sandoval, Ricardo, Carlos Humberto Chicol Muj et al.
Fundación Comunicándonos; Voces; AMARC World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (2016), 104 pp.
"[...] en el 2010 comenzamos un proceso inolvidable. Esta publicación es fruto del proceso de inter-aprendizaje que comunicadoras y comunicadores de la Asociación Mundial de Radios Comunitarias en Guatemala sostuvimos durante más de dos años con ajq’ijab’ (esto es, contadores del tiempo, gu ... more
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Das Evangelium und die digitale Welt: Was wir aus der Geschichte für die Zukunft der Medien lernen können

Matthias Gülzow
Hannover: Lutherisches Verlagshaus (LVH) (2016), 160 pp.
"Das Evangelium als ein spezifischer Deutungszusammenhang hat zu allen Zeiten zur Kommunikation herausgefordert. Mit den jeweils neuesten Techniken und durch alle verfügbaren Kanäle wurde die Frohe Botschaft von der Liebe Gottes zu den Menschen in alle Welt gesendet. Matthias Gülzow stellt diachr ... more
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Church Communications: Creative Strategies for Promoting Cultural Change. Proceedings of the 9th Professional Seminar for Church Communications Offices

Daniel Arasa, Cristian Mendoza, Sergio Tapia-Velasco (eds.)
Rome: EDUSC (2016), 580 pp.
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"As Good as Dead": The Impact of the Blasphemy Laws in Pakistan

London: Amnesty International (2016), 66 pp.
"This report details how Pakistan’s blasphemy laws violate human rights, both in their substance and their application – whether this is violations of human rights by the state, or abuses of the laws by non-state actors. The laws do not meet human rights standards and lack essential safeguards t ... more