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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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Die Bibel: Einheitsübersetzung der Heiligen Schrift

Stuttgart: Katholisches Bibelwerk, vollst. durchges. und überarb. Aufl. (2016), 1548 pp.
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The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama: Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa

Katrien Pype
New York: Berghahn, paperback ed. (2015), xvii, 331 pp.
"How religion, gender, and urban sociality are expressed in and mediated via television drama in Kinshasa is the focus of this ethnographic study. Influenced by Nigerian films and intimately related to the emergence of a charismatic Christian scene, these teleserials integrate melodrama, conversion ... more
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Stories from Latin America: Changing Religious Landscapes and Political Communication

Dennis A. Smith
Council for World Mission Communications Consultation, Singapore 19-20 Jan 2015, Manuscript (2015), 12 pp.
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Mediatization of Religion: Historical and Functional Perspectives

Victor M. Khroul (ed.)
Moscow: Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Journalism (2015), 242 pp.
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The ISIS Twitter Census: Defining and Describing the Population of ISIS Supporters on Twitter

J. M. Berger, Jonathon Morga
Washington, DC: Brookings Institution (2015), 65 pp.
"From September through December 2014, we estimate that at least 46,000 Twitter accounts were used by ISIS supporters, although not all of them were active at the same time [...] Typical ISIS supporters were located within the organization’s territories in Syria and Iraq, as well as in regions con ... more
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A Moving Faith: Mega Churches Go South

Jonathan D. James (ed.)
New Delhi et al.: Sage (2015), xvi, 243 pp.
"A Moving Faith captures the dynamic shift of Christianity to the South and portrays a global movement that promises prosperity, healing, empowerment, and gender equality by invoking neo-Pentecostal and Charismatic resources. It postulates that neither North America nor Europe is the current center ... more
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Social-Web-Kommunikation der Kirchen in Deutschland: Wie (Erz-)Bistümer und Landeskirchen auf Facebook, Twitter und Youtube kommunizieren

Markus Wiesenberg, Ansgar Zerfaß
Communicatio Socialis, volume 48, issue 1 (2015), pp. 72-84
"Der Beitrag analysiert die Kommunikation der römisch-katholischen (Erz-)Bistümer und der evangelisch-lutherischen Landeskirchen in Deutschland im Social Web. Empirische Untersuchungen der „Facebook“-, „Twitter“- und „Youtube“-Aktivitäten der beiden Großkirchen verdeutlichen, dass di ... more
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Eritrea: Von der Befreiung zur Unterdrückung

Katja Dorothea Buck, Mirjam van Reisen (eds.)
Hamburg: Evangelisches Missionswerk in Deutschland (EMW) (2015), 152 pp.
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Digitale Theologie: Gott und die Medienrevolution der Gegenwart

Johanna Haberer
München: Kösel (2015), 206 pp.
"Die digitale Revolution hat unser Denken dramatisch verändert. Wir betreten mit dieser Technik einen neuen Lebensraum, in dem herkömmliche Regeln nicht gelten und die Gesellschaften lernen müssen, neue Normen auszuhandeln. Der Umgang mit Texten und anderen traditionellen Autoritäten verändert ... more
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Why Does the Archbishop Not Tweet? How Social Media Challenge Church Authorities

Stefan Gelfgren
Nordicom Review, volume 36, issue 1 (2015), pp. 109-123
"In summer 2012, the Archbishop of the Church of Sweden appeared on Twitter. There was only one problem – it was not the Archbishop himself who was tweeting, but an anonymous person. A discussion then ensued on Twitter and in the blogosphere between those in favor of the Archbishop and his departm ... more
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Krypta: Unterdrückte Traditionen der Kirchengeschichte

Hubert Wolf
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2015), 231 pp.
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Islamismus: Geschichte, Vordenker, Organisationen

Tilman Seidensticker
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2015), 127 pp.
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Die Grenzen der Beteiligung: Durch einflussreichen Dialog zu mehr Akzeptanz der katholischen Kirche

Felix Krebber, Markus Wiesenberg
Communicatio Socialis, volume 48, issue 3 (2015), pp. 289-315
"Der vorliegende Beitrag diskutiert, inwiefern die römisch-katholische Kirche auf Bundes- wie auf Bistumsebene auf die gesellschaftlich erwartete Beteiligung bzw. Partizipation eingeht. Basierend auf dem organisationalen Neo-Institutionalismus sowie diskurstheoretischen Arbeiten wird die katholisch ... more
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Social Media Use in Religious Communication: The Christian Migrants of Kerala, India

Leslin Bastian
Religion and Social Communication, volume 13, issue 1 (2015), pp. 65-81
"The paper focuses on the social media use in religious communication by Kerala Christians who largely migrated after India's independence to Ahmedabat, Gujarat, India. Further, the paper attempts to analyze the way digital and social media are accessed and utilized by the migrant Kerala Christians ... more
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Mindful Journalism and News Ethics in the Digital Era: A Buddhist Approach

Shelton A. Gunaratne, Mark Pearson, Sugath Senarath (eds.)
New York et al.: Routledge (2015), viii, 239 pp.
"This book aims to be the first comprehensive exposition of "mindful journalism"-drawn from core Buddhist ethical principles-as a fresh approach to journalism ethics. It suggests that Buddhist mindfulness strategies can be applied purposively in journalism to add clarity, fairness and equity to news ... more
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Faith-Based Radio: Beyond Spirituality, Encompassing Development

Oluyinka O. Osunkunle, Janina Wozniak
African Journalism Studies, volume 36, issue 2 (2015), pp. 77-94
"This article aims to assess the activities of Kingfisher FM, a faith-based community radio station, and its contribution to development in Port Elizabeth and its environs. A qualitative data collection method, in the form of group interviews, was used to collect data. The analysis of data indicates ... more
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Christentum und Islam in Deutschland: Grundlagen, Erfahrungen und Perspektiven des Zusammenlebens

Mathias Rohe, Havva Engin, Mouhanad Khorchide, Ömer Özsoy, Hansjörg Schmid (eds.)
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Sonderausg. (2015), 524 pp.
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The Developmental and Political Role of Africa’s Pentecostal Churches

Paul Gifford
KAS International Reports, issue 10 (2015), pp. 81-94
"Primarily and immediately these churches are not aimed at development or politics; they are not NGOs or elements of civil society promoting the rights of a particular group, so it would be a mistake to judge them exclusively on criteria appropriate to such bodies. They are religious bodies, with re ... 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