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Religious Messages in the Media: Mission Impossible?
Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2021), x, 249 pp.
"Can religious messages be transmitted through the media? If so, how and why? Taking these questions as its starting point, and focusing on the relationship between media and religion, this book presents an analysis of the relationship between religion and the media. It explores the inherent qualiti
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The Role of Religious Actors in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Theory-Based Empirical Analysis with Policy Recommendations for Action
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa); Universität Münster, Religion und Politik (2021), 144 pp.
"The subject of religion and the behaviour of religious actors in the COVID-19 crisis appear at first glance to constitute either just marginal issues or factors which tend to be negative. On the other hand, there is far less public discussion on the key role played by religious communities as civil
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Televising Religion in India
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xviii, 235 pp.
"This book explores how religion manifests itself in television. It focuses on how religious traditions, practices, and discourses have been incorporated into non-religious television programmes and how they bring both the community and the media into the fold of religion. The volume traces the cult
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Spiritual Sensations: Cinematic Religious Experience and Evolving Conceptions of the Sacred
London et al.: Bloomsbury Academic (2021), x, 219 pp.
"The secular, pluralist culture of the West encourages a subjective approach to spiritual truth where stimulating emotional experiences, such as those provided by film, can contribute to personal conceptions of the sacred. Examining Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) as the principal cas
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Remembering Franz-Josef Eilers SVD (1932–2021)
Verbum SVD, volume 62, issue 1 (2021), pp. 116-138
"Divine Word Missionary and communication expert Franz-Josef Eilers passed away in Manila on January 13, 2021. He was a prominent SVD communication and media expert and had dedicated his life to social communication and the formation of missionaries in the SVD and beyond for an evangelisation in ter
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On the Death of Jews: Photographs and History
New York; Oxford: Berghahn; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (2021), 104 pp.
"Straddling the boundary between historical inquiry and personal reflection, this extraordinary text unfolds as a series of encounters with eponymic Holocaust photographs. Although only a small number of photographs are reproduced here, Fresco provides evocative descriptions of many well-known image
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Catholic Social Thought and Design Thinking: Putting the Option for the Poor Into Practice
American Journal of Economics and Sociology, volume 80, issue 4 (2021), pp. 1205-1231
"Catholic social thought offers a vision and principles for a community wherein all creation flourishes. An important principle in Catholic social thought is the option for the poor, which describes the commitment of the Catholic Church to the well-being of the marginalized and vulnerable. However,
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Religious Communication Amid the Pandemic
Religion and Social Communication, volume 19, issue 2 (2021), pp. 192-356
"Indonesia is religious diverse with six recognized religions and hundreds of registered religions, which contributes to rich beliefs, but also has potential for religiously based conflicts. There have been an increase in religiously motivated violent incidents such as terrorism, radicalism cases fr
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"Prosecute Them with Awesome Power": China’s Crackdown on Tengdro Monastery and Restrictions on Communications in Tibet
Human Rights Watch (2021), 63 pp.
"This report provides the first detailed account of the raid on the Tengdro monastery and its consequences, including multiple detentions and a suicide, that has appeared in any media within or outside China. It also provides analysis of what the case shows about conditions in Tibet today and assess
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Kirchen im Social Web: Zusammenfassung einer quantitativen Analyse der Social-Web-Aktivitäten 2015 und 2020. Mit Daten zum ersten Corona-Lockdown
München: Medien-Dienstleistung GmbH (MDG) (2021), 23 pp.
"Während im Jahr 2015 rund zwei Drittel der (Erz-)Bistümer und die Hälfte der Landeskirchen im Social Web präsent waren, sind es in 2020 mit einzelnen Ausnahmen alle. In den letzten fünf Jahren ist die Zahl der Abonnenten und Follower auf den einzelnen Kanälen gestiegen. Auch wenn Abonnentenza
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Unruly Images: Representing India in the Calwer Bilder-Tafeln zur Länder- und Völker-Kunde (1883)
Journal for Religion, Film and Media (JRFM), volume 7, issue 2 (2021), pp. 55-86
"This article focuses on a work published in 1883 by a German Christian press associated with a missionary society. The book provides a visual panorama of all the world’s cultures in 1,690 engravings. Most images were reproductions of material that had initially appeared in a variety of other cont
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Writing, Affordances, and Governable Subjects
Journal for Religion, Film and Media (JRFM), volume 7, issue 1 (2021), pp. 33-44
"The book of Deuteronomy in the Hebrew Bible makes a number of references to writing and to the importance of Israel carefully observing the commands, statutes, and ordinances written in the book. Readers can then conform themselves and their behaviors according to the subjectivity of Israel the boo
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Building Relationships with the Faithful: Examining Church Communicators Perceptions of Social Media Influencers in Their OPR Strategy
Journal of Public Relations Research, volume 33, issue 4 (2021), pp. 250-266
"The current study investigates how Church communicators perceive the role of social media platforms and influencers in their overall stakeholder engagement strategy. Building upon the Organization-Public Relationship (OPR) body of literature, we conducted 13 in-depth interviews with public relation
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Love and Communication
Cambridge; Medford, MA: Polity Press (2021), v, 125 pp.
"Love and Communication is an intriguing philosophical and religious inquiry into the meaning of "talk" - and ultimately the meaning of "being human." Taking an historical approach, Paddy Scannell argues that the fundamental media of communication are (and always have been) talk and writing. Far fro
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Die christliche Predigt im 21. Jahrhundert: Multimodale Analyse einer kommunikativen Gattung
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2021), xiii, 448 pp.
Sacred Texts and Digital Culture
Postscripts, volume 12, issue 1 (2021), 146 pp.
