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Religion in the Age of Digitalization: From New Media to Spiritual Machines

Giulia Isetti, Elisa Innerhofer, Harald Pechlaner, Michael De Rachewiltz (eds.)

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 ... more

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Online durch die Pandemie: Wie sich Glauben und Leben verändern

Evangelisches Missionswerk in Deutschland (EMW)

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 ... more

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Social Media Conversion: Lessons from Faith-Based Social Media Influencers for Public Relations

Brian G. Smith, Danielle Hallows, Maggie Vail, Alycia Burnett, Caleb Porter

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 ... more

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Promoting the Faith: Examining Megachurches’ Audience-Centric Advertising Strategies on Social Media

Jordan Morehouse, Adam J. Saffer

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 ... more

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Pastoral Creativity Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Global Experiences
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Anthony Le Duc, John Mi Shen (eds.)

Bangkog, Manila: Asian Research Center for Religion and Social Communication; Logos (Divine Word) Publications (2021), ix, 243 pp.

"The content of the book is organized into four sections. The first three sections are essays recounting real-world experiences of pastoral agents. These essays are roughly divided into three sub-groups. The first group of essays focus on the parish setting and the ministries that each parish attemp ... more

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The Bible, Social Media, and Digital Culture

Peter M. Phillips

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 ... more

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Las narrativas transmedia a la luz de la "historia de las historias"

Moisés Sbardelotto

Punto de Encuentro , 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� ... more

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Christliche Influencer: In der Aufmerksamkeitsspirale

Elisabeth Hurth

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 ... more

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Menschliche Gesellschaft 4.0: (christliche) Beiträge zum digitalen Wandel

Roland Knillmann, Michael Reitemeyer (eds.)

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 ... more

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The Distanced Church: Reflections on Doing Church Online

Heidi A. Campbell (ed.)

Digital Religion Publications; Network for New Media, Religion & Digital Culture Studies (2020), 93 pp.

"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 ... more

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Church and Social Media Today

S. Sebastian Periannan

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 ... more

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La vida se hace historia

Punto de Encuentro , volume 10, issue 131 (2020), pp. 3-30

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Expressões de fé: A construção de sentido nos comentários de transmissões religiosas no Facebook

Gilliard Zuque da Fonscea

Vitória: Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Centro de Artes, Master Thesis (2020), 185 pp.

"Investiga os efeitos de sentido, como são construídos e que valores são colocados em circulação no espaço destinado aos comentários nas transmissões ao vivo das missas pelo Facebook. Busca entender como, ao longo da transmissão, acontecem as interações entre público, padre e plataforma ... more

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There's an App for That: Headspace, Meditation, and the Shifting Religious Landscape of a Digital World

Darcy Isobel Cyr Groves

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)

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Online Temptations: COVID-19 and Religious Misinformation in the MENA Region

Mahsa Alimardani, Mona Elswah

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 ... more

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Narrativas digitais nas redes sociais: A construçao do imaginário religioso na visibilidade mediática

Maria Neusa dos Santos

Sao Paulo: Pontificia Universidade Católica de Sao Paulo, Doctoral Thesis (2020), 226 pp.

"O escopo desta pesquisa abarcou algumas narrativas digitais do catolicismo no Facebook, buscando compreender a construção do imaginário da religião Católica na visibilidade mediática, a partir do contexto da pós-modernidade, pelos meios digitais. O corpus da pesquisa é composto por análise ... s de fanpages ligadas ao catolicismo no período de 2016 a 2020, com destaque para as mudanças ocorridas na Igreja Católica causadas pela pandemia de Covid-19 no mundo. A problemática central da pesquisa assenta-se nas seguintes perguntas: Em que medida e sob quais procedimentos de comunicação, mediados pelas tecnologias, há mudanças no imaginário e no comportamento da religião Católica em razão de sua inserção na cibercultura? Há deslocamento de espaço no acesso aos bens da fé do catolicismo? O diálogo estabelecido nas redes e/ou o consumo dos bens da fé sinalizam um novo cenário da Igreja? A hipótese inicial concentra-se na ideia de que as redes sociais estão formando um complexo esquema de transmutações rápidas no catolicismo, do local das manifestações de fé para o glocal das experiências de fé. Devido à natureza híbrida do objeto de análise, o referencial conceitual utiliza como alicerces a teoria do glocal e da visibilidade mediática desenvolvida por Eugênio Trivinho, sob inspiração na sociodromologia fenomenológica, e a teoria das narrativas digitais de Paul Ricoeur e Janet Murray. Para a compreensão das redes, a análise apoiou-se em Manuel Castells; e das redes sociais, em Raquel Recuero. Além disso, foram utilizadas as obras de teóricos como David Harvey e Fredric Jameson, no que tange à teoria e à crítica da modernidade e pós-modernidade; e de Cornelius Castoriadis, Maffesoli e Juremir Machado Silva, para tratar da teoria do imaginário. Para a compreensão do fenômeno religioso e da religião mediática, a análise recorreu às contribuições de Mircea Eliade, Peter Berger, Pierre Bourdieu e Luís Mauro de Sá Martino. Para a compreensão de consumo religioso, apoiou-se em Dom Slater, Nestor Canclini e Luiz Peres-Neto. Os conceitos de narrativas digitais, redes sociais, catolicismo, sagrado, cibercultura, cyberspace, dromocracia, glocal, hibridação, compressão do espaço-tempo foram necessários para o entendimento das manifestações narrativas do catolicismo nas redes sociais. Os resultados da investigação apontam para dados novos, entre os quais de que há uma nova configuração da religião Católica mediada pelas redes sociais, com contornos renovados nos ambientes interativos, em que o “controle” religioso muda o locus da cátedra para o fiel, que dita a mensagem a ser consumida." (Resumo) more

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Digital creatives and the rethinking of religious authority

Heidi Campbell

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 ... more

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The space between us: Considering online media for interreligious dialogue

Ruth Tsuria

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 ... more

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Kirchliche Pannen und ungenutzte Potenziale: Grundlagen religiöser Kommunikation im digitalen Umfeld

Wolfgang Beck

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 ... more

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Digital Ecclesiology: A Global Conversation

Heidi A. Campbell (ed.)

Digital Religion Publications; Network for New Media, Religion & Digital Culture Studies (2020), 71 pp.

Pastoral Creativity Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Global Experiences Inspiring Practice

Pastoral Creativity Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Global Experiences
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