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Changing paradigms of ecumenical communication

Stephen Brown
Media Development (WACC), volume 59, issue 1 (2012), pp. 33-39
"The process of communication between individuals and institutions was central to the formation of the World Council of Churches in 1948. Yet communication is often taken for granted, being understood as a tool to advance the organizational objectives of ecumenical organizations. Only on occasions h ... more
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Buddhist Diplomacy: History and Status Quo

Juyan Zhang
Los Angeles: Figueroa Press (2012), 62 pp.
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Life is Local in the Imagined Global Community: Islam and Politics in the Indonesian Blogosphere

Merlyna Lim
Journal of Media and Religion, volume 11, issue 2 (2012), pp. 127-140
"The rapid expansion of the Internet, marked by a storm of blogs and social networking platforms, is perceived as an enabling instrument for Muslims to be engaged globally. In this regard, the blogosphere can be a vehicle for worldwide interactions and the formation of global Muslim community, the u ... more
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L'évangélisation par les médias dans la pensée de l'Église Catholique

Jean-Marie Bomengola Ilomba
Kinshasa: Médiaspaul (2012), 112 pp.
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Blasphemy Laws in Pakistan: A Historical Overview

Mohammad Nafees
Islamabad: Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) (2012), 78 pp.
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Außereuropäische Christentumsgeschichte: Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika 1450-1990

Klaus Koschorke, Frieder Ludwig, Mariano Delgado
Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 4. Aufl. (2012), vii, 344 pp.
"Erstmals bietet dieser Quellenband eine vergleichende Auswahl von Texten zur Christentumsgeschichte Asiens, Afrikas und Lateinamerikas von 1450 bis 1990. Damit wird das klassische Spektrum kirchengeschichtlicher Forschung um die globale Perspektive erweitert, die international immer stärker an Bed ... more
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Multiple Modernities and Mass Communications in Muslim Countries

Masoud Kamali
Global Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 3 (2012), pp. 243-268
"This article critically explores the shortcomings of the West-centric theory of singular modernity. By focusing on the modern transformation of mass communication in Muslim countries, it argues that both traditional means of mass communication, such as manbars, and modern media, such as newspapers ... more
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Muslims and New Media in West Africa: Pathways to God

Dorothea E. Schulz
Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2012), xviii, 306 pp.
"Although Islam is not new to West Africa, new patterns of domestic economies, the promise of political liberalization, and the proliferation of new media have led to increased scrutiny of Islam in the public sphere. Dorothea E. Schulz shows how new media have created religious communities that are ... more
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Iranian Religious Film and Inter-Religious Understanding

Gé M. Speelman
Exchange: Journal of Missiological and Ecumenical Research, volume 41, issue 2 (2012), pp. 165-198
"The article deals with two recent Iranian films, al-Masih (Teh Messiah) by Nader Talebzadeh and Maryam al-Muqaddasah (Holy Mary) by Shahriar Bahrani. Both movies are about religious characters shared by Islam and Christianity: Zechariah, Mary and Jesus. The article explores the way the filmmakers h ... more
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Sistema salesiano de comunicación social: Directorio para la Congregación Salesiana

Dicasterio para la Comunicación Social Direzione General Opere Don Bosco
Quito: Comunicación Salesiana Ecuador, Inspectoría Sagrado Corazón de Jesús, 2nd ed. (2012), 129 pp.
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Religion and Media in Russia: Functional and Ethical Perspectives

Victor M. Khroul
Saarbrücken: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing (2012), 83 pp.
"Can we understand religion without media? Can we understand media without religion? How do these influent social sub-systems interact in public sphere? The author puts these questions into the context of contemporary Russia and analyzes media-religion relations from functional and ethical perspecti ... more
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Discovering the Zoroastrian E-Diaspora

David Knaute
Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2012), 17 pp.
"Zoroastrians are an ancient ethnic-religious community that goes back to the prophet Zarathustra. Today they number some 120,000 people, based in India/Pakistan and Iran; diaspora communities are settled in North America, the United Kingdom, Australia. On the Indian sub-continent, where Zoroastrian ... more
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"Objektiv, aber nicht neutral": Die Katholische Nachrichtenagentur gibt es seit 60 Jahren - die Herausforderungen für die Zukunft sind gewaltig

Christian Klenk
Communicatio Socialis, volume 45, issue 4 (2012), pp. 347-372
"Im Januar 1953 hat die Katholische Nachrichtenagentur (KNA) ihren Betrieb aufgenommen. Das 60-jährige Gründungsjubiläum ist ein guter Anlass, um auf die Entwicklung und die aktuelle Situation der KNA zu blicken. Die Agentur erreicht mehr als zwei Drittel der Auflage deutscher Tages- und Wochenze ... more
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Eucaristia na era digital: A questão da presença e da participação

Leomar Antônio Brustolin
Teocomunicação, volume 42, issue 2 (2012), pp. 322-342
"The reality of the Eucharistic celebrations broadcast on television and the Internet is the subject matter of this article. Considering the difficulties and possibilities of understanding liturgical communication by the media, it reflects theologically on the meaning of participation, presence, com ... more
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What's Wrong with Defamation of Religion?

Kwame Anthony Appiah
In: The Content and Context of Hate Speech: Rethinking Regulation and Responses
Michael Herz, Peter Molnar (eds.)
Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), pp. 164-182
"In March 2010, in Geneva, the UN's Human Rights Council (HRC) voted by a narrow margin to accept a nonbinding Resolution on “Combating Defamation of Religions.” (Hereafter, “the Resolution.”) Resolutions like this one have been offered regularly at the HRC and in the General Assembly, have ... more
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Abya-Yala y el retorno del conocimiento de los pueblos

Leonela Cucurella, Carlos Vallejo
In: La presencia salesiana en Ecuador: Perspectivas históricas y sociales
Lola Vázquez, Juan Fernando Regalado, Blas Garzón, Víctor Hugo Torres, José E. Juncosa (coord.)
Quito: Sociedad Salesiana en el Ecuador; Universidad Politécnica Salesiana; Abya-Yala (2012), pp. 705-726
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Religion, the Making of Goddess and Video Game in an Oral Tradition

Chandrabhanu Pattanayak
Religion and Social Communication, volume 10, issue 1 (2012), pp. 39-72
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New Approaches to the Analysis of Jihadism: Online and Offline

Rüdiger Lohlker (ed.)
Göttingen: V & R Unipress, Vienna University Press (2012), 224 pp.
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50 Jahre Steyl Medien: Überlegungen zur Rolle des Missionsfilms gestern und heute

Anton Deutschmann
In: Steyler Missionschronik 2012/13
Nettetal: Steyler Verlag (2012), pp. 139-144, p.161
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Socio-Economic Incentives, New Media and the Boko Haram Campaign of Violence in Northern Nigeria

Aliyu Odamah Musa
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 4, issue 1 (2012), pp. 111-124
"This article seeks to analyse and explain the emergence of the extremists Islamist Boko Haram sect that is currently perpetuating a reign of violence in Northern Nigerian cities and factors that have aided its rise. It takes a look at the changing political and socio-economic situations in the coun ... more