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Religion and Communication in Asia: Towards a Research Agenda

Franz-Josef Eilers

Religion and Social Communication, volume 8, issue 1-2 (2010), pp. 1-19

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Religion and the Media: Reflections on Their Position and Relationship in Southern Africa

Muhammed Haron

Global Media Journal - African Edition, volume 4, issue 1 (2010), pp. 28-50

"In this essay an attempt is made to reflect upon, and to provide, a general overview of the position of the media and religion and the relationship between these two sectors in Southern Africa. Instead of covering the vast Southern African region, it will confine itself to reviewing the position an ... more

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Media and Religion in Africa

African Communication Research , volume 2, issue 1 (2009), 203 pp.

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Religion und Massenmedien

Maud E. Sieprath (ed.)

Berlin: Weißensee-Verlag (2009), 273 pp.

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Médias et religions en Afrique de l'Ouest

Dakar: Panos Afrique de l'Ouest (2009), 173 pp.

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Lo sagrado y los medios de comunicación: Efímero y trascendente

Jesús Martín Barbero, Juan Carlos Ubilluz, Óscar Espinosa de Rivero et al.

Lima: Universidad Ruiz de Montoya (2009), 219 pp.

"Nuestro interés particular por analizar lo sagrado en los medios de comunicación no se refiere a encontrar "huellas" religiosas - cristianas o no - en actividades seculares mediáticas, sino a entender cómo desde los medios se construyen discursos que dan sentido a una nueva significación de sa ... more

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Aesthetic Formations: Media, Religion, and the Senses

Birgit Meyer (ed.)

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), xiv, 278 pp.

"This book examines the incorporation of newly accessible mass media into practices of religious mediation in a variety of settings including the Pentecostal Church and Islamic movements, as well as the use of religious forms and image in the sphere of radio and cinema." (Publisher description)

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Covering Religion-Related News and Conflicts in the Caucasus: A Case Study of a Western “Christian Initiative” News Service

Eric Freedman, Kuang-Kuo Chang, Richard Shafer

Caucasus Journal of Social Sciences, volume 1, issue 1 (2008), pp. 150-175

"This study examines how a Christian-oriented Western press organization [Forum 18 News Service, Norway] covers religion-related news in the Caucasus. Coverage in 2005 overwhelmingly focused on Christianity. Although governmental sources are more likely to be cited than religiously affiliated source ... more

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Key Words in Religion, Media and Culture

David Morgan (ed.)

New York; London: Routledge (2008), xv, 240 pp.

"The list of critical terms selected and explicated in this book will signal many things to readers. It will certainly indicate that the study of media and religion is broadly interdisciplinary. Before the 1980s, the field, if it even was one, was largely the domain of historians of Christianity, Ch ... more

Media and Religion

Anthony McNicholas (ed.)

Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 4, issue 1 (2007), pp. 1-102

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Witchcraft and the Limits of Mass Mediation in Malawi

Harri Englund

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, volume 13, issue 2 (2007), pp. 295-311

"This article explores what the study of witchcraft in an African setting can contribute to current efforts to theorize mass mediation and the imagination it fosters. Recent ethnographies of witchcraft discourses in Africa have continued to associate them with the formation of small-scale groups, bu ... more

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Implications of the Sacred in (Post)Modern Media

Johanna Sumiala-Seppänen, Knut Lundby, Raimo Salokangas (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom (2006), 274 pp.

"The news media report global conflicts related to religion. New expressions of religiosity and spirituality appear in popular media culture. The relationship between media and the sacred has become an inevitable topic. This book offers new and fresh perspectives on the media, the sacred and religio ... more

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Encyclopedia of Religion, Communication, and Media
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Daniel A. Stout (ed.)

New York: Routledge (2006), xx, 467 pp.

"This volume breaks down disciplinary walls in numerous ways. First, it combines information about the intrapersonal, interpersonal, group, and societal levels of communication into a single resource. At the intrapersonal level, new issues are raised about communication between individuals and deity ... : Why is religious experience difficult to explain in rational terms? Why is silence more sacred than spoken prayer in some religious communities? What is the nature of “thought communication” in religious meditation? Why is the use of profanity justified in some religious circles? How does idolatry reinforce religious customs and values? Why was chanting one of the first forms of religious communication? Religious information is also exchanged between individuals at the level of interpersonal communication. This volume identifies rituals that have not been adequately analyzed in terms of communication aspects: Why do some sects require public confession? Why is body decoration an acceptable form of worship in some religious groups, but not in others? How does dance communicate the sacred through metaphoric movement? What are the multiple forms of communication with the dead? Why are feasts a form of religious worship in all major religions? How does the study of organizational communication apply to religion? This volume also aids study of mediated communication to larger groups both inside and outside religious denominations. Throughout history, technology has simultaneously aided and impeded communication processes; this also applies to religious culture: How did religion change during the historical transition from orality to literacy? How did printing contribute to the diffusion of religious values in the world? Why have religious novels grown in popularity? Is television considered a religious medium? How has the Internet affected religious congregations and communities? What is religious media literacy? These are only a few of the questions addressed by this encyclopedia. Articles also deal with (1) concepts such as information, communication, and censorship, (2) denominations which exhibit different communication practices, and (3) the various media used in religious worship. Entries were contributed by scholars from various disciplines, including religious studies, communication, anthropology, sociology, ancient studies, religion and modern culture, theology, and many others." (Introduction, page xiii-xiv) more

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Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere

Birgit Meyer, Annelies Moors (eds.)

Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press (2006), 325 pp.

"Increasingly, Pentecostal, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, and indigenous movements all over the world make use of a great variety of modern mass media, both print and electronic. Through religious booklets, radio broadcasts, cassette tapes, television talk-shows, soap operas, and documentary film ... more

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Espiritualidade: Consciência do corpo na comunicação. Laboratório

Zélia Patrício

São Paulo: Paulinas, Serviço à Pastoral da Comunicação (SEPAC) (2006), 62 pp.

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Religion in the Media Age

Stewart M. Hoover

Abingdon: Routledge (2006), 341 pp.

"Looking at the everyday interaction of religion and media in our cultural lives, Hoover's new book is a fascinating assessment of the state of modern religion. Recent years have produced a marked turn away from institutionalized religions towards more autonomous, individual forms of the search for ... more

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Interreligious Dialogue as Communication

Franz-Josef Eilers (ed.)

Manila: Logos (Divine Word) Publications (2005), 192 pp.

"The communication dimension of Interreligious Dialogue has never been especially addressed and studied. Because of this the FABC Office of Social Communication organized the fifth Bishops' Institute for Social Communication (BISCOM V) in Bali, Indonesia from November 22 to 27, 2005 under the theme, ... more

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Quoting God: How Media Shape Ideas About Religion and Culture

Claire Hoertz Badaracco (ed.)

Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press (2005), xv, 317 pp.

"Each of the eleven chapters in Quoting God pairs an academic and a journalist. First, the scholar holds forth, followed by a "View from the News Desk." Together, they represent many and diverse voices. Badaracco's book shows the relationship between media culture and spiritual culture, recognizing ... more

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Processos midiáticos e construção de novas religiosidades: Dimensões históricas

Pedro Gilberto Gomes

São Leopoldo: Instituto Humanitas Unisinos (IHU), Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (2004), 26 pp.

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Mídia e poder simbólico: Um ensaio sobre comunicação e campo religioso

Luís Mauro Sá Martino

São Paulo: Paulus (2003), 198 pp.

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