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From Living in the Shadows to Facebook Livestreams: The Impact of Social Media on Current Mediumship Practice of Mother Goddesses Worship (Dao Mâu) in Vietnam
Religion and Social Communication, volume 23, issue 2 (2025), pp. 451-473
"This paper explores the transformative impact of social media on mediumship practice within the context of Mother Goddesses worship (Dao Mâu) in contemporary Vietnam. By examining the ways in which spirit mediums and practitioners utilise social media platforms, the study reveals that these digita
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Digital Media Utilization by Catholic Archdiocese of Nyeri for Evangelization During COVID-19 Pandemic
Nairobi: Daystar University, Master Thesis (2024), xii, 119 pp.
"Tied on New Media Theory, this study came up with three objectives. First, to explore how the Catholic Archdiocese of Nyeri utilized digital media to reach its congregants during the COVID-19 pandemic. Secondly, to examine the views of congregants of the Catholic Archdiocese of Nyeri regarding the
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Influenciadores digitais católicos: Efeitos e perspectivas
Deep Insights
São Paulo: Ideias & Letras; Paulus (2024), 413 pp.
"A partir de uma perspectiva diferenciada, esta obra apresenta uma instigante análise do fenômeno dos influenciadores digitais católicos no complexo ecossistema comunicativo e eclesial atual. Além de socialmente relevante, trata-se de um processo que afeta de modo direto o desenvolvimento da pas
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The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion
Deep Insights
New York: Oxford University Press (2024), xiii, 661 pp.
"Digital Religion refers to the contemporary practice and understanding that religion takes place in both online and offline contexts, and how these contexts intersect with each other. Scholars in this growing field of Digital Religion studies recognize that religion has been influenced by its engag
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Evangelização On-Line
São Paulo: Paulus (2024), 100 pp.
"Compêndio de reflexões sobre a realidade na qual a Igreja de Jesus está inserida, permeada e influenciada pela velocidade dos meios sociais, para pensar a Igreja e sua relação com o mundo digital, sobretudo a dimensão tênue que tangencia o virtual e o real, dedicando relevância às influên
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Religion and Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2024), ix, 217 pp.
"Artificial intelligence (AI) is rarely out of the news or the public imagination. Images of red-eyed Terminators illustrate press accounts of incremental advances in medical diagnosis, facial recognition, natural language processing, and robotics. Such advances are transforming society through meas
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Influence of Malawi's Cybersecurity Act 2016 on Online Evangelisation among Young Catholics in Blantyre
Nairobi: Daystar University, Master Thesis (2024), xi, 89 pp.
"The youth are ardent users of digital media and there is no much difference between virtual and real life for them. So, the Catholic Church has persistently invited the faithful, especially the youth who are the true natives of the digital world, to adopt online platforms for evangelization. Concer
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Implications of digital church for Christian leaders
Gogent Arts & Humanities, volume 11, issue 1, 2408868 (2024), 12 pp.
"The use of the internet and digital technology has permeated most facets of life from educational to business organizations both secular and religious. The digital revolution and use of the internet will have a prevailing and lasting impact; therefore, it is prudent for leaders to develop strategie
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De "pároco de aldeia" a macroinfluenciador digital: Um estudo de caso sobre influência digital religiosa
Ciências Sociais e Religião (Campinas), volume 26, issue e024012 (2024), 32 pp.
"Neste texto, analisaremos o caso de Patrick Fernandes, um presbítero católico brasileiro que, em poucos meses ao longo de 2021, passou de poucos milhares para milhões de seguidores em sua conta no Instagram. Faremos isso a partir da noção de influência digital religiosa, entendida aqui como a
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Religion in der digitalen Gesellschaft: Wenn der Papst twittert
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2024), 354 pp.
"Wie bedeutsam ist Religion noch für uns - gerade in einer Zeit, in der viele institutionelle Religionen immer mehr ihrer Mitglieder verlieren? Christina Behler nimmt die digitale Gesellschaft als Ausgangspunkt und liefert eine detaillierte Analyse der Twitter-Aktivität von Papst Franziskus. Auf G
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"The Network is designed for scholars, students and those interested in exploring topics and questions emerging at the intersections of religion, the internet and new, social and mobile media. The Network offers an interactive space for researchers and others wishing to learn more about this growing
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Commodification of Spirituality and the Spiritual Healers’ Labor on Facebook
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 1405-1425
"Facebook is home to a plethora of spiritual healers who use the social media platform for giving advice, selling products, and offering their services. In this ethnographic study, we examine the Facebook endeavors of Estonian spiritual healers. The study discusses the different forms of commodified
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Religión y pandemia: Rumores y narrativas conspiracionistas en Facebook
Ciências Sociais e Religião (Campinas), volume 26, issue e024006 (2024), 32 pp.
"Este artigo apresenta os resultados de uma investigação sobre os rumores e as narrativas conspiratórias que circularam em 2020 sobre a pandemia em duas páginas do Facebook pertencentes a dois grupos religiosos: um evangélico e outro católico. Nos afastamos da visão que desqualifica os rumore
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Missionários no ambiente digital: Em nome de quem?
Aparecida; São Paulo: Editora Santuário; Paulinas (2024), 136 pp.
"Nos primeiros capítulos, o autor desenvolve de forma clara a “genealogia” da missão da Igreja, que tem sua fonte no coração da Trindade, Amor que é comunicação permanente com toda a sua criação. Atinge seu ápice na pessoa de Jesus Cristo, o missionário do Pai, e chega até nós por m
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Vernetzt und zugewandt - digitale Gemeinde gestalten: Ein Praxishandbuch
Key Guides
Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag (2024), 220 pp.
"Die Lebenswelt der meisten Menschen ist digital, viele Gemeinden sind es dagegen noch nicht. Nicht nur bei sinkenden Mitglieder- und Gottesdienstbesucherzahlen wird es höchste Zeit, Wege zu finden, um relevant zu bleiben. Auch darüber hinaus bieten digitale Angebote viel Mehrwert für ein lebendi
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A Dalit religion online: Clashing sensoryscapes and remote ethnographies behind the screen
Dialectical Anthropology, volume 48 (2024), pp. 83-112
"A Bengali Dalit religion called Matua emerged in the nineteenth century in East Bengal. It counts tens of millions of followers across the Bay of Bengal and the Indo–Bangladesh border. With the COVID-19 pandemic, Matua religious gatherings were shifted online. This paper asks what happened to mul
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Cambio sociotecnológico y religión: La emergencia de los influencers de la fe en el mercado de la comunicación digital
Transiciones justas: Entre el encuentro y el diálogo social, issue 4 (2024), pp. 10-20
"La existencia de un gran número de influencers digitales católicos indica que existe un público amplio y diverso interesado en practicar su fe en los ambientes digitales. La influencia digital ya se ha convertido en una tendencia irreversible en el ámbito católico, con la exaltación de alguna
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Redes sociais evangélicas e música gospel no Brasil: Questões raciais nas margens do mundo religioso
Ciências Sociais e Religião (Campinas), volume 26, issue e024011 (2024), 31 pp.
"Nas últimas décadas, a utilização das mídias por igrejas evangélicas brasileiras se intensificou com a disseminação das redes sociais na internet. Viu-se também uma ampliação do mercado de bens culturais religiosos, sobretudo na área da música. Se essas múltiplas mediações comunicac
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Using YouTube as a Digital Pulpit. The Most Influential Catholic Youtubers in Spanish Speaking Countries: Who They Are and How They Communicate
Church, Communication and Culture, volume 8, issue 1 (2023), pp. 59-83
"The Internet and social networks have enabled the appearance of new Catholic preachers with intense activity and a high number of followers on their channels. YouTube has been no exception to this communication trend. Some of the religious communicators who use this social network have in fact beco
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Religion auf Instagram: Analysen und Perspektiven
Freiburg et al.: Herder (2023), 390 pp.
"Neben großen Themen wie Beauty, Kochen und Katzen haben sich wachsende Nischen für religiöse Kommunikation im digitalen Raum etabliert. Instagram, das heißt heute auch: gelebte Religion, Bibel, Spiritualität, Kirchenpolitik, Seelsorge und Bildung. Der Band gibt Einblick in die Entwicklung von
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