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Muslim Online Prayer in a Sociocultural Context

Wael Hegazy

CyberOrient, volume 14, issue 2 (2020), pp. 64-84

"The article argues that the debate over the online prayer is not just an ordinary fatwa issued by religious scholars for the Muslim Ummah, but it rather goes through a complicated process of social, identarian, cultural, authoritative, and transnational caveats. The physicality entailed by this deb ... more

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Digital Hinduism

Xenia Zeiler (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2020), 283 pp.

"Digital Religion does not simply refer to religion as it is carried out online, but more broadly studies how digital media interrelate with religious practice and belief. This collection explores Digital Hinduism and consequentially studies how Hinduism is expressed in the digital sphere and how Hi ... more

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Evangelizar en una cultura postmedial: Criterios y perspectivas para una pastoral de la comunicación social

Facundo Fernández Buils

Rome: Pontificia Universitatis Lateranensis, Pontificium Institutum Pastorale "Redemptor Hominis", Licenciate Thesis (2020), 112 pp.

"En el primer momento de nuestra investigación plantearemos un estado de situación de la pastoral de la comunicación, analizando algunos documentos del magisterio pontificio desde comienzo del siglo XX hasta nuestros días. Presentaremos las perspectivas y las actitudes de la Iglesia en su víncu ... lo con los medios de comunicación y las líneas pastorales propuestas para afrontar los desafíos culturales suscitados por el impacto de las tecnologías de la comunicación en cada momento de la historia [...] Hemos dicho que somos testigos de los cambios culturales que han producido las tecnologías de la comunicación, pero ¿qué entendemos por el concepto de cultura? A partir de algunos autores, en un segundo momento profundizaremos brevemente en esta noción, a la luz de las ciencias humanísticas, de la antropología y la sociología. Presentaremos también la evolución de este concepto en el magisterio eclesial desde el Concilio Vaticano II hasta nuestros días, llegando a la definición de cultura que propone Papa Francisco en la exhortación Evangelii Gaudium, asumiendo el valioso aporte elaborado por el magisterio latinoamericano. A continuación presentaremos una descripción de la cultura comunicativa actual a la luz de tres autores, Henry Jenkins, Ruggero Eugeni y Luciano Floridi, quienes han investigado las tecnologías de la comunicación y su impacto en el hombre y la sociedad. Por último, presentaremos el aporte de Massimiliano Padula y Filippo Ceretti, que propondrán un retorno a la dimensión antropológica de la comunicación a la que llamarán humanidad medial [...] Luego de adentrarnos en este contexto comunicativo y su impacto en la cultura, la pregunta se hace evidente: ¿cómo pensar una pastoral de la comunicación en esta cultura postmedial? A partir de este análisis intentaremos presentar en el último capítulo algunos elementos para diseñar una pastoral medial hoy. Desde la perspectiva antropológica de las tecnologías de la comunicación, buscaremos reconocer cuál es el kairós propio de este tiempo que nos toca vivir, proponiendo algunos criterios para diseñar una pastoral medial con un nuevo estilo evangelizador a la luz de las enseñanzas de Papa Francisco. No es nuestra intención proponer una guía exhaustiva sobre cómo elaborar y establecer un plan de comunicación eclesial, sino presentar algunos elementos que sirvan como “materia prima” para la reflexión y el discernimiento sobre cómo llevar adelante una pastoral de la comunicación que sea evangelizadora en y de la cultura postmedial." (Introducción, página 6-7) more

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Media and Social Media Analysis on Religious Freedom and Violent Extremism in Central Asia: Cases of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan

Search for Common Ground (2020), 33 pp.

"This report analyzes the content of traditional media and social networks on religious freedom and violent extremism in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. At the same time, the study seeks to examine hate speech against certain religious groups and how pre-labeling affects those officially accu ... more

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Violating Rights: Enforcing the World’s Blasphemy Laws

Washington, DC: United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) (2020), 95 pp.

"In this report, the authors examine and compare state implementation and enforcement of criminal laws prohibiting blasphemy (“blasphemy laws”) worldwide over the five-year period between January 2014 and December 2018. The criminal cases this study analyzes represent states’ enforcement of la ... more

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Politicising Blasphemy in Indonesia: How Islamic Alliances Are Established

Rafiqua Qurrata A’yun

Melbourne Asia Review, issue 4 (2020), 8 pp.

"Conservative Muslim groups have been very successful in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, in efforts to construct blasphemy as a serious threat to the Islamic community. These groups attempt to formalise Islam in state institutions in a way that rejects liberalism and pluralism; ... more

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Nachsynodales Apostolisches Schreiben 'Querida Amazonia' von Papst Franziskus an das Volk Gottes und an alle Menschen guten Willens. Anhang: Bischofssynode – Sonderversammlung für Amazonien: Amazonien – Neue Wege für die Kirche und eine ganzheitliche Ökologie. Schlussdokument

Franziskus (Papst)

Bonn: Sekretariat der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz (2020), 158 pp.

"Ich träume von einem Amazonien, das für die Rechte der Ärmsten, der ursprünglichen (autochthonen) Völker, der Geringsten kämpft, wo ihre Stimme gehört und ihre Würde gefördert wird. Ich träume von einem Amazonien, das seinen charakteristischen kulturellen Reichtum bewahrt, wo auf so unter ... more

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Social Media and the Islamic State: Can Public Relations Succeed Where Conventional Diplomacy Failed?

Ella Minty

London; New York: Routledge (2020), xv, 98 pp.

"This book examines how social media has transformed extremist discourse. It looks at how ISIS by a sophisticated use of social media platforms and PR concepts was able to recruit, mobilize and spread fundamentalist propaganda in regions where it had little physical presence. The volume focuses on t ... more

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Querida Amazonía: Versión popular de la Exhortación Apostólica con las propuestas del documento final del Sínodo para la Amazonía

Quito: Red Eclesial Panamazónica (REPAM) (2020), 56 pp.

"Presentamos a ustedes esta versión popular que integra el documento final del Sínodo para la Amazonía (DF) y la exhortación apostólica del Papa Francisco “Querida Amazonía” (QA), como un solo llamado integral. Uno sin el otro no está completo, por ello deben ser trabajados siempre de man ... more

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The Distanced Church: Reflections on Doing Church Online

Heidi A. Campbell (ed.)

Digital Religion Publications;Network for New Media, Religion & Digital Culture Studies (2020), 93 pp.

"In March/April 2020 most churches around the world have been forced to close their doors due to the need for social distancing and local lock-downs in order to fight off the spread of the COVID-19 virus. The result was traditional churches had to make an unplanned and swift transition towards techn ... more

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Transmission or ‘creative Fidelity’? The Institutional Communicator’s Role in the Church Today

Alberto Gil, Guido Gili

Church, Communication and Culture, volume 5, issue 3 (2020), pp. 320-338

"The role of the institutional communicator in the Church today has a special relevance derived from the credibility crisis suffered by this institution. A greatly increased awareness to this theme leads to the discovery of profound and essential dimensions of this role, which are discussed in this ... more

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Digital Afterlife: Death Matters in a Digital Age

Maggi Savin-Baden, Victoria Mason-Robbie (eds.)

Boca Raton; London; New York: CRC Press (2020), xv, 213 pp.

"The book covers a variety of matters that have been neglected in other research texts, for example: the legal, ethical, and philosophical conundrums of Digital Afterlife; the ways digital media are currently being used to expand the possibilities of commemorating the dead and managing the grief of ... more

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The Better Sinner: A Practical Guide on Corruption

Cui Wantian, Christoph Stückelberger

Geneva: Globethics.net (2020), 37 pp.

"The contradiction between the encouraging regulations and increasing awareness on one side and the disappointing reality on the other side leads us in this article to the question, how we can develop a more realistic and effective way to reduce corruption than by this double moral standard of nice ... more

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Digital Ecclesiology: A Global Conversation

Heidi A. Campbell (ed.)

Digital Religion Publications;Network for New Media, Religion & Digital Culture Studies (2020), 71 pp.

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Interreligious contact and media: Introduction

Anna Neumaier, Gritt Klinkhammer

Religion, volume 50, issue 3 (2020), pp. 321-335

"Religious pluralisation entails interreligious contacts of different kinds and at various levels. At the same time, an increasing mediatisation affects the perception of and encounter with other religious traditions and their adherents. These relations between interreligious contact and media have ... more

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Church and Social Media Today

S. Sebastian Periannan

Jeevadhara: A Journal for Socio-religious Research, volume 50, issue 295 (2020), pp. 55-67

"Social media serves to strengthen human and social relations through connectivity, and promotes a culture of free enterprises beyond boundaries. Church recognizes that sodal media and networks are a 'gift from God'. Without authentic love, sense of unity and urgency for charity, the social media co ... more

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Guestbooks in multifaith spaces as (inter-)religious media

Alexander-Kenneth Nagel, Mehmet Kalender

Religion, volume 50, issue 3 (2020), pp. 372-391

"In recent years, various forms of multifaith spaces have been emerging in Germany which include so-called Rooms of Silence in hospitals or educational institutions as well as Gardens of Religions. So far, empirical research on these spaces has focused on their establishment or their functions withi ... more

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‘Dear Hindu Friends’: Official Diwali greetings as a medium for diplomatic dialogue

Melanie Barbato

Religion, volume 50, issue 3 (2020), pp. 353-371

"This article discusses greeting messages as a genre of interreligious communication. Greeting messages are defined as official communication issued by religious institutions and addressed to the members of another religious community on the occasion of specific feast days or anniversaries. Drawing ... more

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Medien und Islamismus: Der Einfluss von Medienberichterstattung und Propaganda auf islamistische Radikalisierungsprozesse

Katharina Neumann

Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2020), xi, 307 pp.

"Katharina Neumann beschäftigt sich aus einer kommunikationswissenschaftlichen Perspektive mit dem Phänomen der Radikalisierung. Sie untersucht mithilfe einer qualitativen Befragung von radikalisierten Islamisten und Szeneaussteigern, inwiefern journalistische Medienberichterstattung und Propagand ... more

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Comunicação, linguagens e religiões: Tendências e perspectivas na pesquisa

Magali do Nascimento Cunha, Letícia Jovelina Storto (org.)

Londrina: Syntagma Editores (2020), 446 pp.