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Decline of Christianity in the U.S. has slowed, may have levelled off: Findings from the 2023-24 Religious Landscape Study
Pew Research Center (2025), 392 pp.
Iraks christliches Erbe: Vom Überleben im Zweistromland
Freiburg: Herder (2025), 872 pp.
"Erstmals wird mit diesem Buch eine alle Epochen umfassende Monographie über den Irak bis zur Gegenwart vorgelegt, und zwar aus Sicht des Christentums. Die religionswissenschaftliche Untersuchung rückt dabei auch die islamischen Strömungen sowie weitere religiöse Minderheiten und Ethnien, insbes
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Satellite Ministries: The rise of Christian television in the Middle East
Top Insights
New York: Oxford University Press (2025), 368 pp.
"Through extensive fieldwork and archival research, Febe Armanios explores how Western evangelicals and indigenous Christians harnessed terrestrial and satellite technologies to promote Christian television in the Middle East. The sixteen channels analyzed in this study fall into three main categori
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The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion
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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Churches Online in Times of Corona. Die CONTOC-Studie: Empirische Einsichten, Interpretationen und Perspektiven
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2023), viii, 599 pp.
"Die CONTOC-Studie hat in ökumenischer und internationaler Ausrichtung die digitale kirchliche Praxis unter den Bedingungen der Corona-Pandemie im Frühsommer 2020 erforscht. Dieser Band dokumentiert die Rahmenbedingungen und Umfrageergebnisse in den beteiligten Ländern. Daran schließen sich Pers
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Kirche in Deutschland
Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, volume 73, issue 39 (2023), 54 pp.
"In Deutschland existieren seit der Reformation zwei große christliche Kirchen – die evangelische und die katholische. Im öffentlichen Leben sind sie einflussreiche gesellschaftliche Akteurinnen, sei es in den Bereichen Wohlfahrt, Bildung, Medien oder Kultur. Gleichzeitig schwinden ihre Mitglied
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On the Significance of Religion in Violence Against Women and Girls
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xxi, 171 pp.
"In this ground-breaking volume, the authors explore two sides of religion: the ways in which it contributes to violence against women and girls (VAWG) and the ways it counters it. Recognising the very real impact of religion on the lives of women and girls, it prioritises experiences and learnings
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Sin and Divine Punishment: The Korean Series JIOK (HELLBOUND, KR 2021–), New Religious Movements, and a World Full of Guilt
Journal for Religion, Film and Media (JRFM), volume 9, issue 2 (2023), pp. 87-99
"The TV series Jiok (Yon Sang-ho, 2021-), internationally known as Hellbound, is a recent and highly successful series that has been available on the streaming platform Netflix since November 2021. It is usually described as a "dark mystery thriller" or "dark fantasy film", which points to the gener
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Religious Environmental Activism: Emerging Conflicts and Tensions in Earth Stewardship
Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge (2023), xii, 327 pp.
"This volume explores how religious and spiritual actors engage for environmental protection and fight against climate change. Climate change and sustainability are increasingly prominent topics among religious and spiritual groups. Different faith traditions have developed "green" theologies, launc
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The World Congress of Families: Anti-Gender Christianity and Digital Far-Right Populism
International Journal of Communication, volume 17 (2023), pp. 2805-2822
"Anti-gender groups defend heteronormative and traditionalist views of family values and include both conservative Christian and far-right political actors. Moreover, these groups often rely on digital communication. Through a qualitative analysis of videos, tweets, and press releases produced durin
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The Representation of Rural Christianity in the Films of Gan Xiao’er
Journal for Religion, Film and Media (JRFM), volume 9, issue 2 (2023), pp. 101-125
"The religious dimension of Chinese cinema is, it has been observed, a "triple lacuna" in contemporary scholarship: in research on religion in China, in research on Chinese cinema, and in interdisciplinary research on film and religion. From 2002 to 2012, independent filmmaker Gan Xiao'er directed t
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A Text Mining Content Analysis Tool for Christian Faith-Based Media Institutions’ Production
Nairobi: Strathmore University, Master Thesis (2023), xiv, 71 pp.
"This research is proposing a new approach for the faith-based media institutions in the creation and production of content. The solution proposed by this research is a text mining content analysis tool that uses data mining techniques including Association, Clustering and Classification in the disc
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Orphaned Landscapes: Violence, Visuality, and Appearance in Indonesia
New York: Fordham University Press (2022), viii, 304 pp.
"Less than a year after the end of authoritarian rule in 1998, huge images of Jesus Christ and other Christian scenes proliferated on walls and billboards around a provincial town [Ambon] in eastern Indonesia where conflict had arisen between Muslims and Christians. A manifestation of the extreme pe
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Ecclesiology for a Digital Church: Theological Reflections on a New Normal
London: SCM Press (2022), xviii, 180 pp.
"This volume contains a collection of 12 chapters discussing the theme of the book, which focuses on the COVID-19 pandemic and the implications that this crisis holds for the church in the future. The main matter being examined in this book is the ecclesiological challenges and opportunities present
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Russian Church in the Digital Era: Mediatization of Orthodoxy
Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge (2022), xii, 224 pp.
"Has Russia abandoned its atheist past and embraced Orthodox Christianity as its new moral guide? The reality is more complex and contradictory. Digital sources provide evidence of rising domestic criticism of the Russian Orthodox Church and its leadership. This book offers a nuanced understanding o
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Politiques éditoriales dans la mission (XIXe-XXIe siécle)
Paris: Karthala (2022), 405 pp.
"Les Missions à l’époque contemporaine ont continué de se propager grâce à destechniques éditoriales que les progrès des moyens de communication leur ont procurées. En tout premier lieu, l’imprimerie a permis l’édition de la Bible dans de multiples langues et la multiplication de supp
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Die Ikone und das Undarstellbare: Ikonentheorien im bildtheoretischen Kontext
Bielefeld: transcript (2022), 227 pp.
"Wie kam es zu dem ikonischen Überschuss des christlichen Heiligenbildes? Janine Luge-Winter geht dieser Frage nach, indem sie die verschiedenen Argumente byzantinischen Bildapologien des 8. und 9. Jahrhunderts und der modernen Ikonentheorien des 20. Jahrhunderts erstmals in ihrer Studie versammelt
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Grundzüge der außereuropäischen Christentumsgeschichte: Asien, Afrika und Lateinamerika 1450-2000
Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck (2022), xx, 361 pp.
"Die Mehrheit der christlichen Weltbevölkerung lebt heute im globalen Süden. Kenntnisse ihrer Geschichte sind darum unerlässlich. Dieses Lehrbuch bietet einen ebenso kompakten wie anschaulichen Überblick über die Christentumsgeschichte Asiens, Afrikas und Lateinamerikas seit ca. 1450. Vielfalt
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The Christian Cross in Art History: Implications for Current Communication Areas
Rome: Pontificia Università Della Santa Croce (2022), 55 pp.
"The objective of the thesis is to define the communicative meaning of the Christian cross by dealing with three research issues. The first problem regards the historical aspects. In interdisciplinary ways the thesis will explore the different forms, locations and functions of Christian cross pictur
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Digitale Communities: Eine Pilotstudie zur Followerschaft von christlichen Influencer*innen auf Instagram
Berlin: midi;Evangelisches Werk für Diakonie und Entwicklung (2022), 88 pp.
"Die vorliegende Pilotstudie kontextualisiert zunächst das Phänomen, das sich hinter dem Begriff „Digitale Communities“ verbirgt im Feld der wissenschaftlichen Begleitforschung und nimmt begriffliche Schärfungen vor (Kap. 2). Im Zentrum stehen dann die empirischen Ergebnisse der Befragung der
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