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Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds
Deep Insights
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2022), xii, 294 pp.
"This book offers a critical and systematic survey of the study of religion and digital media. It covers religious engagement with a wide range of digital media forms and highlights examples of new media engagement in all five of the major world religions. From mobile apps and video games to virtual
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La chiesa nel digitale: Strumenti e proposte
Todi: Tau Editrice; Associazione Web Cattolici Italiani (WECA) (2022), 247 pp.
"Il volume, nato dall’esperienza dei 150 video tutorial dell’Associazione Webmaster Cattolici Italiani (WECA), offre un cammino in quattro tappe per riflettere, scoprire, condividere sui social e pubblicare sul web l’esperienza di una Chiesa che, appunto, è presente anche nel mondo digitale.
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Sacred Cyberspaces: Catholicism, New Media, and the Religious Experience
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press (2022), xvii, 218 pp.
"Sacred Cyberspaces reveals how long-standing conflicts over power, influence, and legitimacy within religious organizations are being waged in the digital realm. Oren Golan and Michele Martini describe the tensions that arise as religious groups seek to reach the faithful in online spaces where tra
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Covid-19, Communication and Religion
Church, Communication and Culture, volume 7, issue 1 (2022), pp. 1-263
"The contributions of this special issue are grouped in three sections: context, theoretical framework and empirical research. The first articles set up two important dimensions of the context we are living in that have to be definitely improved if we want to take advantage of the positive sides of
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Pastoral Communication in the Digital Age: Reality, Reflections and Response
Deep Insights
Signis (2022), 43 pp.
"In terms of the pastoral challenges presented by ICT, this paper demonstrates the need for the Church and her pastoral leaders to skillfully and wisely navigate the realm of technology in order to put this gift granted by God to the best use. This demands that pastoral leaders and faith communicato
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Santa Dulce dos pobres: Canonização e engajamento no Instagram
In: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas VII: atualidades
Daniela Magalhaes Costa de Jesus, José Gileá, Kátia Maria Mendes Silva, Pedro Camilo de Figueirêdo Neto (eds.)
Editora Mente Aberta (2022), pp. 252-265
"Santa Dulce dos Pobres foi a primeira mulher brasileira a receber esse título pela Igreja Católica, o que reforça a hipótese de que esse episódio, somado à sua trajetória de doação e entrega ao bem comum, associado ao trabalho que continuou com as Obras Sociais Irmã Dulce (OSID), especial
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Empathy: The Key to Handle Digital Communications Post-Pandemic
Religion and Social Communication, volume 20, issue 1 (2022), pp. 143-159
"This essay establishes the four phenomena that have characterized the pandemic and digital communications. This refers to infodemic, which is the abundance of information and difficulty to manage it; hypersensitivity, indicated in classifying actors as heroes and villains; the development of atypic
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La formazione dei catechisti nell'era del cyberspazio: Nuovi processi formativi per catechisti
Todi: Tau Editrice (2022), 248 pp.
"L’avvento dell’era digitale ha interessato sempre più il settore di ricerca delle scienze della comunicazione con notevoli ricadute anche in campo catechetico. Questo libro prova a rispondere all’esigenza di formare una nuova figura di catechista chiamato ad interagire con i “soggetti digi
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"This eBook provides a follow-up conversation with key contributors from The Distanced Church, published in April 2020, which explored how church leaders were responding and adapting to the need move their traditional services online during the first lockdown of the covid-19 pandemic. Revisiting the
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"A tese parte da constatação de que existem componentes do sagrado que podem determinar ou não as narrativas dos jogos eletrônicos, para investigar os elementos religiosos presentes nos operadores audiovisuais dos games, a partir dos referenciais teóricos da transdiciplinaridade-complexidade e
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The Value of Spiritual Conversation in the Digital Age
Ignaziana: Rivista di Ricerca Teologica, volume 31 (2021), pp. 75-111
"This study opened its first part analyzing the current digital communication culture with the question of how authentic communication is possible, in line with Pope Francis’ particular sense of pastoral care and outlook, for today’s digital environment. It found that the digital communication c
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Práxis religiosa digital em tempos de pandemia: O caso católico
Tropos: Comunicação, Sociedade e Cultura, volume 10, issue 1 (2021), 27 pp.
"Este texto busca analisar a práxis religiosa digital da Igreja Católica no Brasil, isto é, as práticas católicas brasileiras no ambiente digital e as reflexões eclesiais sobre tal processo, ao longo da pandemia do coronavírus. Para isso, realizou-se um estudo de caso sobre o site da Conferê
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The Politics of Pulpit Religiosity in the Era of Covid-19 in Kenya
Frontiers in Communication, volume 6, issue 616288 (2021), 9 pp.
"This essay centres on the role of religion in the era of Covid-19. We juxtapose social media and religious practices in a way that challenges the conventional religion of the pulpit to deconstruct the myths and misconceptions around spirituality in the era of Covid-19. We show the transformation of
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Islamogram: Salafism and Alt-Right Online Subcultures
London: Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) (2021), 38 pp.
Online durch die Pandemie: Wie sich Glauben und Leben verändern
Hamburg: Missionshilfe Verlag (2021), 228 pp.
"Mit Covid-19 hat sich eine todbringende Pandemie erstmals global verbreitet, mit weitreichenden Folgen auf allen Ebenen, auch für Mobilität und Kommunikation in Kirche, Mission und weltweiter Ökumene. Partnerschaftsreisen oder Auslandsjahre für junge Freiwillige sind ausgefallen, stattdessen si
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Social Media Conversion: Lessons from Faith-Based Social Media Influencers for Public Relations
Journal of Public Relations Research, volume 33, issue 4 (2021), pp. 231-249
"The growing importance of social media influencers (SMIs) as sources for attitude and behavior necessitate a focus on influencers (and their strategies to influence) in public relations research and practice. This study investigated perspectives among a specific type of SMI – the religious or fai
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Kirchen im Social Web: Zusammenfassung einer quantitativen Analyse der Social-Web-Aktivitäten 2015 und 2020. Mit Daten zum ersten Corona-Lockdown
München: Medien-Dienstleistung GmbH (MDG) (2021), 23 pp.
"Während im Jahr 2015 rund zwei Drittel der (Erz-)Bistümer und die Hälfte der Landeskirchen im Social Web präsent waren, sind es in 2020 mit einzelnen Ausnahmen alle. In den letzten fünf Jahren ist die Zahl der Abonnenten und Follower auf den einzelnen Kanälen gestiegen. Auch wenn Abonnentenza
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Catequese Digital: Por onde começar?
São Paulo: Paulus (2021), 240 pp.
"O livro busca oferecer um caminho de compreensão das mudanças humanas, culturais, comunicacionais e teológicas que a realidade atual traz como desafio e oportunidade para a catequese. A reflexão é dividida em seis eixos temáticos: Cultura Digital, Ciberteologia, Gerações Digitais, Cibergra
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Promoting the Faith: Examining Megachurches’ Audience-Centric Advertising Strategies on Social Media
Journal of Advertising, volume 50, issue 4 (2021), pp. 408-422
"Megachurches have a reputation for savvy use of digital media; however, little is known about their advertising strategy or which strategies elicit engagement. By assessing megachurches’ promotional content on social media, this study draws on the devotional campaign framework to examine audience
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Religion in the Age of Digitalization: From New Media to Spiritual Machines
Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge (2021), xii, 195 pp.
"Divided into two sections, the chapters included in the first section of the book present case studies from five major religions: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism and their engagement with digitalization. The second section of the volume explores the moral, ideological but also o
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