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Las narrativas transmedia a la luz de la "historia de las historias"
Punto de Encuentro (Signis ALC), volume 10, issue 131 (2020), pp. 4-7
"Desde el comienzo de su pontificado, Francisco ha enfatizado que no hay futuro sin un enraizamiento en la historia vivida. En su mensaje para la Jornada Mundial de las Comunicaciones de este año, resalta aún más la importancia de la herencia de la memoria y la historia también en la comunicaci
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Digital creatives and the rethinking of religious authority
London; New York: Routledge (2020), ix, 226 pp.
"The book Digital Creatives and the Rethinking of Religious Authority makes a valuable contribution to the study of how religious authority is evolving in the digital age. The author synthesizes previous research and introduces a new framework for categorizing types of religious authority in digital
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Church and Social Media Today
Jeevadhara: A Journal for Socio-religious Research, volume 50, issue 295 (2020), pp. 55-67
"Social media serves to strengthen human and social relations through connectivity, and promotes a culture of free enterprises beyond boundaries. Church recognizes that sodal media and networks are a 'gift from God'. Without authentic love, sense of unity and urgency for charity, the social media co
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The space between us: Considering online media for interreligious dialogue
Religion, volume 50, issue 3 (2020), pp. 437-454
"The internet has been conceptualized as a public sphere in which constructive dialogues – such as inter-religious dialogues – can occur. Public spheres, however, require reason, reflectivity and sincerity rarely found in most web spaces. Therefore, this approach might be counterproductive. Inst
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The big friendly counter-space? Interreligious encounter within social media
Religion, volume 50, issue 3 (2020), pp. 392-413
"Research on interreligious dialogue mostly focuses on face-to-face meetings, however, it also takes place in other contexts. Among them is the huge space of interactive media, where adherents of different religious traditions meet, e.g., in interreligious groups on Facebook, boards or commentary se
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Christentum medial: Religiöse Kommunikation in digitaler Kultur
Regensburg: Pustet (2020), 187 pp.
"Dieser Band beschäftigt sich mit der Rolle und Bedeutung von Medialität und Medienwandel im Christentum in Geschichte und Gegenwart aus interdisziplinärer und weltkirchlicher Perspektive. Wie gestaltet sich die Wechselbeziehung zwischen sich wandelnden Medien auf der einen Seite und christlichen
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There's an App for That: Headspace, Meditation, and the Shifting Religious Landscape of a Digital World
Bard College (2020), 50 pp.
"[This publication] is a senior project in Religious Studies that explores the conditions, both historical and clinical, which led to the popularity of the guided meditation app Headspace, and the cultural attitudes that surround mindfulness meditation in America." (Publisher description)
Menschliche Gesellschaft 4.0: (christliche) Beiträge zum digitalen Wandel
Freiburg: Herder (2020), 141 pp.
"Grundlage für die im Buch enthaltenen Aufsätze ist eine Fachtagung, die im Juli 2019 vom Caritasverband für die Diözese Osnabrück e. V. und dem Ludwig-Windhorst-Haus, der Katholischen Sozialen Akademie des Bistums Osnabrück, initiiert wurde. Dabei sollte das Zentrum der Tagung (und damit des
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Digital Afterlife: Death Matters in a Digital Age
Boca Raton; London; New York: CRC Press (2020), xv, 213 pp.
"The book covers a variety of matters that have been neglected in other research texts, for example: the legal, ethical, and philosophical conundrums of Digital Afterlife; the ways digital media are currently being used to expand the possibilities of commemorating the dead and managing the grief of
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The Bible, Social Media, and Digital Culture
New York: Routledge (2020), 129 pp.
"This book [...] examines the shift from a propositional to a therapeutic approach to faith from a sociological standpoint. The book covers two research projects in particular: the Twitter Gospels and Online Moralistic Therapeutic Deism. It explores the data as it relates to Abby Day's concept of pe
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La vida se hace historia
Punto de Encuentro (Signis ALC), volume 10, issue 131 (2020), pp. 3-30
Muslim Online Prayer in a Sociocultural Context
CyberOrient, volume 14, issue 2 (2020), pp. 64-84
"The article argues that the debate over the online prayer is not just an ordinary fatwa issued by religious scholars for the Muslim Ummah, but it rather goes through a complicated process of social, identarian, cultural, authoritative, and transnational caveats. The physicality entailed by this deb
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Online Temptations: COVID-19 and Religious Misinformation in the MENA Region
Social Media + Society, volume 6, issue 3 (2020), pp. 1-4
"Issues of verification in the age of mass media, and now social media, have been a long-discussed topic among Islamic media scholars. While Islam might be a common thread in COVID-19 religious misinformation, there is nothing inherently Islamic to the religious tinged elements of misinformation on
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"In March/April 2020 most churches around the world have been forced to close their doors due to the need for social distancing and local lock-downs in order to fight off the spread of the COVID-19 virus. The result was traditional churches had to make an unplanned and swift transition towards techn
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Comunicação, linguagens e religiões: Tendências e perspectivas na pesquisa
Londrina: Syntagma Editores (2020), 446 pp.
Kirchliche Pannen und ungenutzte Potenziale: Grundlagen religiöser Kommunikation im digitalen Umfeld
Forum Weltkirche, issue 4 (2020), pp. 30-33
"Längst ist die Kirche auch in den sozialen Medien angekommen. Gleichzeitig reagieren viele Bistümer aber noch verhalten auf die digitale Glaubensverkündigung und Evangelisierung im Web. Dabei bergen die sozialen Medien das bislang wenig genutzte Potenzial zur Beziehungspflege, das oft verloren g
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Digital Hinduism
London; New York: Routledge (2020), 283 pp.
"Digital Religion does not simply refer to religion as it is carried out online, but more broadly studies how digital media interrelate with religious practice and belief. This collection explores Digital Hinduism and consequentially studies how Hinduism is expressed in the digital sphere and how Hi
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Christliche Influencer: In der Aufmerksamkeitsspirale
Herder Korrespondenz, issue 4 (2020), pp. 38-40
"Christiche Akteure im Netz: Die einen bieten allerlei Lebensdienliches, die anderen punkten mit Provokationen. Die Kirchen sollten sich von diesem Medienphänomen nicht zu viel versprechen. Denn es steht für ein Christentum, das sich der digitalen Marktlogik unterwirft und nicht in der realen Welt
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