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The Lebanese Media Coverage of Father Mansour Labaky's Prison Sentence

Beirut: Samir Kassir Foundation (2022), 34 pp.

"On November 8, 2021, a French court sentenced Lebanese priest Mansour Labaky to 15 years in prison in absentia. Labaky’s name has been added to the list of registered sex offenders. The court also announced that the arrest warrant issued against him in 2016 shall remain in force. The priest was c ... more

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The Media and Social Media Debate Around the Call for the Demolition of Shiite Religious Shrines in Iraq

Beirut: Samir Kassir Foundation (2022), 18 pp.

"The report monitors the number and types of media material covering this topic and published by the monitored media platforms. It analyzes the content of the material, the way it tackles the topic, its degree of reliance on objective sources related to the story, as well as its way of addressing th ... more

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Fundamentalism and the Search for Meaning in Digital Media Among Gen Y and Gen Z

Clyde Anieldath Missier

Journal for Deradicalization, issue 33 (2022), pp. 255-285

"Religious fundamentalists have a common fear that modernity, digital mass media, and popular culture may corrupt young adults and undermine sacred values and moral codes. However, some young adults do not abandon their religion; conversely, they submit to fundamentalist religious authority and are ... more

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The Approach of Pope Benedict XVI to Media and Digital Culture in Catholic Social Thought

Jesús Sánchez-Camacho

Church, Communication and Culture, volume 7, issue 2 (2022), pp. 391-414

"At a time when there has been a technological development and a renewal in the field of communication, the Church has been implementing its Social Doctrine on the media and the digital world. In his official documents, and with the theology of communication as a background, Benedict XVI has explore ... more

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Topic and Sentiment Analysis of Responses to Muslim Clerics’ Misinformation Correction About COVID-19 Vaccine: Comparison of Three Machine Learning Models

Md Enamul Kabir

Online Media and Global Communication, volume 1, issue 3 (2022), pp. 497-523

"This study employed three machine learning algorithms, Naïve Bayes, SVM, and a Balanced Random Forest to build a sentiment model that can detect Muslim sentiment about Muslim clerics’ anti-misinformation campaign on YouTube. Overall, 9701 comments were collected. An LDA-based topic model was als ... more

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The Catholic Church and the Media: A Text Mining Analysis of Vatican Documents from 1967 to 2020

Michele Martini

Journal of Media and Religion, volume 21, issue 3 (2022), pp. 155-173

"In the last two decades, mainstream religious institutions have progressively incorporated ICTs in both their organizational infrastructure and their devotional practices. Stemming from digital religion scholarship, the present article aims at investigating how the official discourse of the Catholi ... more

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Global Sceptical Publics: From Non-Religious Print Media to ‘Digital Atheism’

Jacob Copeman, Mascha Schulz (eds.)

London: UCL Press (2022), xix, 359 pp.

"Global Sceptical Publics is the first major study of the significance of different media for the (re)production of non-religious publics and publicity. While much work has documented how religious subjectivities are shaped by media, until now the crucial role of diverse media for producing and part ... more

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The Production of Knowledge Through Religious and Social Media Infrastructure: World Making Practices Among Brazilian Pentecostals

Gabriela Alcantara Azevedo Cavalcanti de Arruda, Daniel Medeiros de Freitas, Carolina Maria Soares Lima, Krysztof Nawratek, Bernardo Miranda Pataro

Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture, volume 20, issue 3 (2022), pp. 208-221

"Following Robertson’s discussions on epistemic capital, the article analyses worldmaking procedures being used by members of one of the biggest neo-Pentecostal churches in Brazil – Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus. According to the popular narrative, social media, especially WhatsApp groups, c ... more

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Some Pastoral Challenges and Perspectives on Shrines and Pilgrimages in the Philippines in Light of the 500 Years of Christianity Celebration and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kendrick Ivan B. Panganiban

Religion and Social Communication, volume 20, issue 2 (2022), pp. 397-417

"A momentous occasion during the 500th anniversary of Christianity in the Philippines (2021-2022) was the opening of the doors of churches around the country for the Jubilee. It featured the country’s pilgrimage sites as dynamic sources of Catholicism. However, the pilgrims faced two challenges: t ... more

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Communication Leading to Communion: Social Communications in the Digital Culture Through the Catholic Church’s Engagement in Social Media During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Roderick Evans M. Bartolome

Religion and Social Communication, volume 20, issue 2 (2022), pp. 369-396

"With the prohibition of religious gatherings by the Philippine government to help curb the spread of the COVID-19, the Catholic Church had to close its doors to the public and instead hold masses and other activities online, primarily utilizing the livestreaming features of Facebook. The study prob ... more

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Empathy: The Key to Handle Digital Communications Post-Pandemic

Albertina Navas

Religion and Social Communication, volume 20, issue 1 (2022), pp. 143-159

"This essay establishes the four phenomena that have characterized the pandemic and digital communications. This refers to infodemic, which is the abundance of information and difficulty to manage it; hypersensitivity, indicated in classifying actors as heroes and villains; the development of atypic ... more

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Israeli Information Policy, COVID-19 and the Ultra-Orthodox Haredim

Yoel Cohen, Ahuva Spitz

Religion and Social Communication, volume 20, issue 1 (2022), pp. 45-67

"Against the background of the COVID-19 crisis in Israel, the country’s ultra-orthodox population, the Haredim, were faced with seemingly insuperable dilemmas of compromising their religious standards for the sake of dealing with the virus. The government launched a public relations campaign to pe ... more

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Christ, Cross and COVID-19: Words That Never Die in the New Normal Religious Communication

Norman Melchor R. Peña Jr.

Religion and Social Communication, volume 20, issue 1 (2022), pp. 19-44

"A correlative resonance exists between the experience of communication in the new normal forced by the COVID-19 pandemic and each of the Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross. The words become the new normal way and guiding beacon to how religious communication can be effectuated during the pande ... more

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Influenciadores digitais da fé: Celebridades ou evangelizadores?

Fernanda Faria Medeiros, Alzirinha Rocha de Souza, Aline Amaro da Silva, Moisés Sbardelotto, Vinicius Borges Gomes

Rumores, volume 16, issue 31 (2022), pp. 230-252

"Este trabalho apresenta uma reflexão inicial sobre o conceito de influenciadores digitais, considerando as perspectivas anteriores dos estudos de celebridades, com objetivo de propor novas dimensões para a análise desse fenômeno circunscrito no ambiente da fé. Buscando apreender os fenômenos ... more

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Our Feet Into the Way of Peace: Holistic Approaches to Peace-Building in the Context of the Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace

Ibrahim Wushishi Yusuf, Jin Yang Kim (eds.)

Geneva: World Council of Churches;Globethics.net (2022), 107 pp.

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Ethics, Media, Theology and Development in Africa: A Festschrift in Honour of Msgr Prof. Dr Obiora Francis Ike

Peter Eshioke Egielewa, Blessed Frederick Ngonso (eds.)

Geneva: World Council of Churches;Globethics.net (2022), 590 pp.

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Religiöse Helden: Glaube, Religion und Moralität in der superheroischen Popkultur

Nicolas Gaspers, Torsten Caeners, Matthias Keidel (eds.)

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 - ... more

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Hacia una Iglesia sinodal en salida a las periferias: Reflexiones y propuestas pastorales a partir de la Primera Asamblea Eclesial de América Latina y el Caribe

Bogotá: Consejo Episcopal Latinoamericano y Caribeño (CELAM) (2022), 144 pp.

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Adiós al profeta de la Amazonía: Dom Cláudio Hummes (8 agosto 1934 - 4 julio 2022)

Misión CELAM, issue 8 (2022), 15 pp.

"La partida de nuestro hermano, el cardenal Cláudio Hummes, arzobispo emérito de São Paulo, deja un profundo vacío en la Iglesia de América Latina y el Caribe. Su legado, especialmente en la Iglesia amazónica, le permitieron trascender como uno de los más grandes e insignes obispos de nuestro ... more

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Pentecostalism and Media in Africa: Theoretical Explorations of Power and Agency of Media Platforms and Their Users

Ibrahim Murtala

Religion Compass, volume 17, issue 1 e12452 (2022), 9 pp.

"This survey paper interrogates four theoretical frameworks often invoked to analyze intersections between media and religion: mediatization, mediation of meaning, mediation of the beyond, and religious social shaping of technology. The paper surveys several research works informed by the aforementi ... more