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Teologías, ecologías y extractivismos
Red Iglesias y Minería; Conferencia Episcopal Latinoamericana (CELAM); Dreikönigsaktion (DKA); CEBITEPAL
(2022), 117 pp.
ISBN 978-958-625-858-6
"Urgidos por los gritos de las comunidades afectadas por la minería y los gemidos de la madre naturaleza, en comunión con el llamado del papa Francisco y del CELAM, la Agencia de Cooperación Katholische Jungschar (DKA) y la Red Iglesias y Minería (IyM) animamos un espacio ecuménico para interca...
Report diversity! Guidelines to train media circles on inclusiveness and preventing gender Islamophobia
European Institute of the Mediterranean; Media Diversity Institute Global (MDIG); MAGIC - Muslim women and communities Against Gender Islamophobia in society;
(2022), 27 pp., bibliogr. p.20-27
ISBN 978-84-19326-01-0
"Covering the polarizing and fragmented opinions over Islam and the rights of women, for example, requires context, attachment to core ethical values, and stylish truth-telling. Without professional expertise, a good understanding of the issues in play and a commitment to diversity in their approach...
Radikalisierung im Cyberspace: die virtuelle Welt des Salafismus im deutschsprachigen Raum - ein Weg zur islamistischen Radikalisierung?
Bonn:
Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb)
(2021) Sonderausg., 278 pp., illustr., glossary p.223-227, bibliogr. p.299-268
ISBN 978-3-7425-0695-5
Other Editions: Bielefeld: Transcript, 2020
"Auch die salafistische Szene nutzt den virtuellen Raum zur Propagierung ihrer Ideologie und zur Rekrutierung von Mitgliedern. Gerade für eine jüngere Zielgruppe hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren ein breites Angebot im deutschsprachigen Raum herausgebildet, mit dem Salafisten ihre Glaubensinhalte...
Religion's sudden decline: what's causing it, and what comes next?
New York:
Oxford University Press
(2021), xii, 191 pp., bibliogr. p.177-184, index
ISBN 978-0-19-754705-2 (pbk); 978-0-19-754707-6 (online)
"Secularization has accelerated. From 1981 to 2007, most countries became more religious, but from 2007 to 2020, the overwhelming majority became less religious. For centuries, all major religions encouraged norms that limit women to producing as many children as possible and discourage any sexual b...
Media resource manual
Social Communications Commission Catholic Bishops Conference Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands
(2021), 35 pp.
The role of religious actors in the COVID-19 pandemic: a theory-based empirical analysis with policy recommendations for action
Stuttgart:
Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa); Religion und Politik Universität Münster
(2021), 144 pp., bibliogr. p.125-140
ISBN 978-3-948205-42-3
CC BY-NC-ND
"The subject of religion and the behaviour of religious actors in the COVID-19 crisis appear at first glance to constitute either just marginal issues or factors which tend to be negative. On the other hand, there is far less public discussion on the key role played by religious communities as civil...
Exploring the intersectionality of culture, sacrificial offering, and exploitative prosperity gospel rhetoric in Africa
Church, communication & culture, volume 6, issue 2 (2021), pp. 267-284
"Research has well documented the evidence of the growth of prosperity gospel churches across the globe, but there is a dearth of studies that investigate the interface between culture and exploitative rhetoric among African prosperity gospel ministers. Examining the concept of making sacrificial of...
O sagrado nos jogos digitais: arquétipos do sagrado no game Dragon Age: Origins
Recife:
Doctoral Thesis Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências da Religião Universidade Católica de Pernambuco
(2021), 234 pp., 47 illustr., bibliogr. p.221-234
"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 ...
The Mennonitization of the mass media in Paraguay
Exchange: journal of contemporary Christianities in context, volume 50, issue 2 (2021), pp. 128-152
ISSN 0166-2740
"This article investigates how the churches in Paraguay have used multiple mass media as evangelization instruments and which churches dominate the mass media in 2010–2012, following the growth explosions of Pentecostalism in the 1980s–1990s and especially after 2002. Church uses of the printed ...
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...
Postsecular rhetoric of the Pope: a discourse analysis of Pope Francis’ TED Talks
Church, communication & culture, volume 6, issue 2 (2021), pp. 250-266
"Pope Francis has gained a title as ‘the Pope of Surprises’ for his unprecedented and unconventional papal narratives, personal viewpoints, and equally electrifying mediatised public appearances. One of these surprises was his videotaped appearance on TED. By adopting postsecularism as a concept...
Remembering Franz-Josef Eilers SVD (1932–2021)
Verbum SVD, volume 62, issue 1 (2021), pp. 116-138
"Divine Word Missionary and communication expert Franz-Josef Eilers passed away in Manila on January 13, 2021. He was a prominent SVD communication and media expert and had dedicated his life to social communication and the formation of missionaries in the SVD and beyond for an evangelisation in ter...
Moving mountains: the challenges of religious representation in Malaysia
Projek Dialog; Internews
(2021), 25 pp.
"... Faith communities in Malaysia seem to constantly find ways to reach out to each other and to Malaysians who may not necessarily share their backgrounds. This already contradicts the assumption that local religions are often intolerant towards each other. Rather, what is required is a platform f...
Love and communication
Cambridge; Medford, MA:
Polity Press
(2021), v, 125 pp., bibliogr. p.122-125
ISBN 978-1-5095-4752-4 (hbk); 978-1-5095-4753-1 (pbk); 978-1-5095-4754-8 (ebook)
"Love and Communication is an intriguing philosophical and religious inquiry into the meaning of "talk" - and ultimately the meaning of "being human." Taking an historical approach, Paddy Scannell argues that the fundamental media of communication are (and always have been) talk and writing. Far fro...
Joy in solitude: the retreat journals
Contributor(s): Barry Martinson (ed.)
Taipei:
Tau Books; Gabriel Press
(2021), xxiv, 357 pp.
ISBN 978-986-97070-2-2
"Father Jerry Martinson (1942-2017) was a Jesuit missionary priest serving in Taiwan, well-known for his TV productions, documentaries, talks and workshops throughout Asia. His popular TV series on learning English made "Uncle Jerry" a household name. Living and working at Taipei's Kuangchi Program ...
Religion in the age of digitalization: from new media to spiritual machines
Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY:
Routledge
(2021), xii, 195 pp.
ISBN 978-0-367-40819-0 (hbk); 978-0-367-80922-5 (ebook)
"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...
Papi, Vaticano, comunicazione: esperienze e riflessioni
Milano:
Àncora; La Civiltà Cattolica
(2021), 178 pp.
ISBN 978-88-514-2466-4
"Qual è lo stile di comunicazione degli ultimi papi? Quali strumenti ha usato il Vaticano per comunicare e quali problemi incontra chi ne è responsabile? P. Federico Lombardi ha passato molti anni in questo servizio e ci racconta la sua esperienza in rapporto ravvicinato con Giovanni Paolo II, Ben...
MEDIAting theology
Leipzig:
Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
(2021), 209 pp.
ISBN 978-3-374-06811-1
"The intersection of media with theology is reciprocating: media boosts theology in its functions to inform, connect and educate; theology humbles the globalizing media with a reminder – media is in mediation but not in domination. Media and theology thus intersect at mediating (negotiating, inter...
Online durch die Pandemie: Wie sich Glauben und Leben verändern
Hamburg:
Missionshilfe Verlag
(2021), 228 pp.
ISBN 978-3-946426-28-8
"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...
Afrika
Paderborn et al.:
Schöningh
(2021), x, 615 pp.
ISBN 978-3-506-77701-0 (hbk); 9783657777013 (online)
"Das Werk bietet, nach Ländern bzw. Regionen aufgeschlüsselt, einen kompakten und aktuellen Überblick über geschichtliche Herkunft, weitere Entwicklungen und aktuelle Herausforderungen der afrikanischen Kirche aus katholischer Sicht. Dabei liegt ein Akzent auf den Beziehungen der Ortskirche zu a...
