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Pentecostalism and Media in Africa: Theoretical Explorations of Power and Agency of Media Platforms and Their Users
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
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Manual de imagen institucional
Bogotá: Conferencia Episcopal Latinoamericana (CELAM) (2022), 33 pp.
An Assessment of the Challenges Associated with Volunteer Workforce Management at Radio Maria Rwanda
Nairobi: Daystar University, Master Thesis (2022), xi, 122 pp.
"This study has been conducted at Radio Maria Rwanda (RMR) for establishing different challenges related to the management of volunteers at RMR, from recruitment to their retention. The study assessed how volunteers are recruited at RMR, what motivated them to volunteer at this radio station, how th
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Sacred Cyberspaces: Catholicism, New Media, and the Religious Experience
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press (2022), xvii, 218 pp.
"Sacred Cyberspaces reveals how long-standing conflicts over power, influence, and legitimacy within religious organizations are being waged in the digital realm. Oren Golan and Michele Martini describe the tensions that arise as religious groups seek to reach the faithful in online spaces where tra
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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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God Talk: The Problem of Divine-Human Communication
New York; Berlin: Peter Lang (2022), xxii, 192 pp.
"The collection of critiques advances a powerful question that must be asked if we are to gain a broader and deeper understanding of humanity. The phenomenon of Divine-human communication (DHC) is framed as an area of scholarship replete with heurism, not limiting itself to Judeo-Christian belief sy
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Gifted to Give: 500 Years of Christianity in the Philippines
Manila: Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines; Radio Veritas Asia (2022), 142 pp.
"As we share images, words and insights in this coffee table book we likewise rediscover our sense of identity as a Church. From each and every page we will be able to learn how our Catholic faith was formed as a nation, and how it evolved and developed over time. Like when individuals take it upon
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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
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
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Becoming Tapestry: A Multimodal Ethnographic Podcast Exploring Storytelling and Belonging in a Faith-Adjacent Foster Youth Mentoring Network
Columbia University, Teachers College, Doctoral Thesis (2022), v, 108 pp.
"In this study of Tapestry, a church-run foster youth mentoring network, and St. Sebastian’s Summer Camp, a predominantly Latinx church-run community day camp, I develop and document one promising pairing in response to this quandary: an adapted form of Digital Storytelling (Lambert, 2012) as a co
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La communication sauvera l’Afrique
Kinshasa: Editions Baobab (2022), 159 pp.
"Sauver l'Afrique, c'est aussi soigner son image. La métaphore du selfie, de l'autoportrait doit nous inspirer. Les chrétiens africains ont un rôle particulier, d'annoncer de bonnes nouvelles à l'Afrique et de l'Afrique. Je publie ce recueil de textes à l'occasion de mes quarante ans de pratiqu
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Die Ikone und das Undarstellbare: Ikonentheorien im bildtheoretischen Kontext
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (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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African Perspectives on Religion and Climate Change
Routledge (2022), xi, 241 pp.
"This book interrogates the contributions that religious traditions have made to climate change discussions within Africa, whether positive or negative. Drawing on a range of African contexts and religious traditions, the book provides concrete suggestions on how individuals and communities of faith
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Update der Milieubeschreibungen nach dem neuen SINUS-Modell 2022
München: Medien-Dienstleistung GmbH (MDG) (2022), 75 pp.
"Die folgenden Handlungsbedarfe und Empfehlungen aus dem MDG-Trendmonitor 2020/21 wurden auf ihre Gültigkeit im aktualisierten Sinus-Milieumodell überprüft und angepasst. Dabei zeigt sich: Das grundlegende Spannungsfeld zwischen milieuspezifischer Affinität (insbes. in den traditionellen Milieus
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Manuscript and Print in the Islamic Tradition
Berlin, Boston: Walter de Gruyter (2022), viii, 374 pp.
"This volume explores and calls into question certain commonly held assumptions about writing and technological advancement in the Islamic tradition. In particular, it challenges the idea that mechanical print naturally and inevitably displaces handwritten texts as well as the notion that the so-cal
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Craftbook: Markenkommunikation und Produktentwicklung für kirchliche Pionier*innen
Key Guides
Freiburg: Herder (2022), 216 pp.
"Das Craftbook ist ein Werkzeugkasten, der innovative Projekte in kirchlichen Organisationen beschleunigt. Als zusammenhängendes Framework lassen sich die Tools und Methoden sowohl zur langfristigen Prozessplanung, zur Stärkung des Markenprofils als auch zur Gestaltung von einzelnen Arbeitsphasen
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The Role of Religions and Conspiracy Theories in Democratic and Authoritarian Regimes
Politics and Governance, volume 10, issue 4 (2022), pp. 132-242
"This thematic issue asks about the role of religions and religious actors and conspiracy theories/theorists in democratic and authoritarian regimes in general. Special attention is given to the current Covid]19 pandemic, since the relevant state of emergency obviously endorses the persuasiveness
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The Production of Knowledge Through Religious and Social Media Infrastructure: World Making Practices Among Brazilian Pentecostals
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
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Influenciadores digitais da fé: Celebridades ou evangelizadores?
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
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A Media Ecology of Theology: Communicating Faith Throughout the Christian Tradition
Waco: Baylor University Press (2022), viii, 232 pp.
"The contemporary emphasis on written or academic theology obscures the long history in which people sought to understand and express their faith by way of various outlets and formats. Because historical Christianity has embraced every communication medium, the media ecology approach to communicatio
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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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