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The Intimacy of Images: Saints, Death, and Devotion to La Santa Muerte in Oaxaca
Austin: University of Texas Press (2025), 224 pp.
"It's been said that Oaxacans "believe in images." Visual manifestations of saints and loved ones are a fundamental part of life there. Oaxacans also seem to have a special relationship with La Santa Muerte, a female reaper-like figure whose cult has grown rapidly as violence in Mexico has increased
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Fictional Practices of Spirituality I: Interactive Media
Bielefeld: transcript (2023), 476 pp.
"Fictional Practices of Spirituality" provides critical insight into the implementation of belief, mysticism, religion, and spirituality into worlds of fiction, be it interactive or non-interactive. This first volume focuses on interactive, virtual worlds - may that be the digital realms of video ga
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The Pop Theology of Videogames: Producing and Playing with Religion
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2023), 158 pp.
"Young people in the West are more likely to encounter religion in videogames than in places of worship like churches, mosques or temples. Lars de Wildt interviews developers and players of games such as Assassin’s Creed to find out how and why the Pop Theology of Videogames is so appealing to mod
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Mediating Catholicism: Religion and Media in Global Catholic Imaginaries
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London: Bloomsbury Academic (2022), 240 pp.
"This book focuses on the ethnographic study of Catholicism and media. Chapters demonstrate how people engage with the Catholic media-scape, and analyse the social, cultural, and political processes that underlie Catholic media and mediatization. Case studies examine Catholic practices in North Amer
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Religiöse Helden: Glaube, Religion und Moralität in der superheroischen Popkultur
Bielefeld: transcript (2022), 220 pp.
"Superheld*innen sind in der Krise: Gut und Böse, Richtig und Falsch sind nach starken sozialen und politischen Umbrüchen längst nicht mehr klar und eindeutig. Für das Genre ein eklatantes Problem. Religion und Glaube könnten hier Orientierung bieten, verlieren aber - so der gängige Vorwurf -
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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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Living in Refuge: Ritualization and Religiosity in a Christian and a Muslim Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon
Bielefeld: transcript (2022), 264 pp.
"This comparative ethnography of a Muslim and a Christian Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon focuses on contrasting social belonging processes through a ritualization approach. Leonardo Schiocchet argues that contrasts emerge out of the intersectionality of religiosity, nationhood, refugeeness and
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Exploring the Intersectionality of Culture, Sacrificial Offering, and Exploitative Prosperity Gospel Rhetoric in Africa
Church, Communication and 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
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Novelas Bíblicas: Sabedoria da Bíblia para os Dias de Hoje
São Paulo: Paulus (2021), 102 pp.
"A novela bíblica é um gênero literário por excelência para o exercício da interação entre a comunidade que produziu o texto e a comunidade que o lê e o atualiza. Com suas cores próprias, a novela bíblica é um artifício popular que cresce em importância no período posterior ao exílio
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Espiritualidades, transdisciplinaridade e diálogo 2
Recife: UNICAP (2018), 404 pp.
Handbook of Conspiracy Theory and Contemporary Religion
Leiden; Boston: Brill (2018), xiii, 556 pp.
"Conspiracy theories are a ubiquitous feature of our times. The Handbook of Conspiracy Theories and Contemporary Religion is the first reference work to offer a comprehensive, transnational overview of this phenomenon along with in-depth discussions of how conspiracy theories relate to religion(s).
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Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa
Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press (2018), ix, 320 pp.
"Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa is one of the first volumes to put new media and old media into significant conversation with one another, and also offers a rare comparison between Christianity and Islam in Africa. The contributors find many previously unacknowledged correspondenc
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Los rostros del gran poder: Representaciones, prensa y fiesta
La Paz: Universidad Católica Boliviana;Plural Editores (2018), 127 pp.
"¿Quiénes nos representan en los medios? ¿Cómo lo hacen? ¿Qué efectos pueden producir esas representaciones? Estas y otras preguntas se responden a través de esta brillante invetigación, focalizada particularmente en la representación de "lo cholo" y "lo mestizo", en la cobertura de la fies
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Diversidad de prácticas religiosas en las villas de la ciudad de Buenos Aires
Debates en Sociología, volume 44 (2017), pp. 119-143
"El trabajo describe y analiza la diversidad de prácticas religiosas de habitantes de villas de Buenos Aires. Se basa en datos agregados relevados con un cuestionario aplicado a una muestra representativa de residentes de estos territorios. Se presenta primero una discusión sobre el concepto de re
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The Making of the Pentecostal Melodrama: Religion, Media and Gender in Kinshasa
New York: Berghahn, paperback ed. (2015), xvii, 331 pp.
"How religion, gender, and urban sociality are expressed in and mediated via television drama in Kinshasa is the focus of this ethnographic study. Influenced by Nigerian films and intimately related to the emergence of a charismatic Christian scene, these teleserials integrate melodrama, conversion
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The Routledge Companion to Religion and Popular Culture
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London; New York: Routledge (2015), xvii, 583 pp.
"Religion and popular culture is a fast-growing field that spans a variety of disciplines. This volume offers the first real survey of the field to date and provides a guide for the work of future scholars. It explores: "key issues of definition and of methodology, religious encounters with popular
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Playing with Religion in Digital Games
Bloomington; Indianapolis: Indiana University Press (2014), ix, 301 pp.
"Shaman, paragon, God-mode: modern video games are heavily coded with religious undertones. From the Shinto-inspired Japanese video game 'Okami' to the internationally popular 'The Legend of Zelda' and 'Halo', many video games rely on religious themes and symbols to drive the narrative and frame the
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Santuarios virtuales: La mediatización del espacio sagrado en Internet. Tras las huellas (digitales) de dos santos peruanos
In: Lo sagrado y los medios de comunicación: efímero y trascendente
Jesús Martín Barbero et al.
Lima: Universidad Ruiz de Montoya (2009), pp. 73-83
Implications of the Sacred in (Post)Modern Media
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
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Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere
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
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