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Kontaktpunkt Kasualien: Chancen für kirchenferne Zielgruppen
Berlin: Churchdesk (2025), 17 pp.
"Taufe, Erstkommunion, Konfirmation, Trauung und Bestattung sind für viele Menschen oft die einzigen direkten Berührungspunkte mit der Kirche. Viele kommen nicht aus Tradition oder Überzeugung, sondern weil ein persönlicher Anlass sie dazu bewegt. Diese Momente bieten eine wertvolle Chance, mit
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La escucha sinodal en los ambientes digitales. Una aproximación desde la experiencia “La Iglesia te escucha”
Yachay, volume 42, issue 81 (2025), pp. 11-47
"Este artículo busca explorar la importancia de la escucha en los ambientes digitales, comprendidos como una cultura que la Iglesia está llamada a habitar para evangelizar y construir comunión. La reflexión se centra en la experiencia pastoral de “La Iglesia te escucha”, una iniciativa desar
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Autoritarismus kommt vor dem Fall: Die Kirche als Regierungsopposition in Venezuela
Herder-Korrespondenz, issue 5 (2025), pp. 44-46
"Die einstige Vorzeigedemokratie Venezuela ist seit der Regierungszeit von Hugo Chávez von Autoritarismus geprägt. Seit 2013 hält sich der Sozialist Nicolás Maduro zunehmend brutal an der Macht. Die Kirche versucht, dagegenzuhalten." (Einleitung)
Islamic State, Media, and Ppropaganda: Performances of the 'Visual Caliphate'
Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing (2025), xiii, 264 pp.
"Examining hundreds of official propaganda video releases, Khawaja and Kaunert provide a visual longitudinal analysis of IS’ portrayal of its population, territory, governance, and foreign policy, which they term as the ‘Visual Caliphate’. They demonstrate that while IS published its state-lik
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Der neue Gott: Künstliche Intelligenz und die menschliche Sinnsuche
Freiburg et al.: Herder (2025), 176 pp.
"Ist Künstliche Intelligenz der neue Gott des digitalen Zeitalters? In diesem tiefgründigen Essay entfaltet Claudia Paganini eine philosophisch brisante These: Erstmals erschafft der Mensch einen Gott, statt ihn nur zu denken. Die KI übernimmt zunehmend, was einst der Religion vorbehalten war: Si
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Religion in der Krise - Krise der Religion? Eine empirische Medienanalyse christlicher Publizistik in der Corona-Pandemie
Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt (2025), 223 pp.
"Hat die Religion während der Corona-Pandemie einen spezifischen Beitrag zur Bearbeitung der entsprechenden Krisenerfahrung geleistet? Diese Frage wird anhand christlicher Publizistik in unterschiedlichen massenmedialen Formaten untersucht. Es wird gezeigt, dass religiöse Deutungsangebote in betr
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Confucian Values and Their Contemporary Applications on Social Media
Religion and Social Communication, volume 23, issue 2 (2025), pp. 281-302
"This research explores the ethical implications of using social media and fostering interfaith dialogue across religious traditions and cultures, utilizing Confucian principles as a framework for analysis. This research delves into the nuanced exploration of the Confucian Golden Rule within the Ana
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Muslims and social media: A scoping review
Information, Communication & Society, volume 28, issue 11 (2025), pp. 1908-1922
"As Muslim individuals, communities, and institutions have been transformed by the digital revolution, a literature has developed that seeks to contribute knowledge about these changes. Pioneering studies in this field suggest that this literature has a focus on digital documents. This scoping liter
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The Revolution Within: Islamic Media and the Struggle for a New Egypt
Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press (2025), xv, 348 pp.
"The New Preachers of Egypt - so named because of their novel preaching styles, which incorporate everything from melodrama to music to self-help - came to prominence on the world's first Islamic television channel on the cusp of the Arab Spring uprisings. They promoted an innovative and inclusive I
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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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Kirchengeschichte und Digitale Spiele
Stuttgart: Kohlhammer (2025), 263 pp.
"Analog zu Film- und Theaterwissenschaften setzen sich die "Game Studies" mit dem Medium und seinem Einfluss auf die Gesellschaft auseinander. Anders als in der Geschichtswissenschaft gibt es im Bereich der Kirchengeschichte erst seit Kurzem Bestrebungen, sich dem Phänomen der Darstellung von Verga
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Hate Speech Events in India. Report 2025
Washington, DC: India Hate Lab (IHL); Center for the Study of Organized Hate (CSOH) (2025), 111 pp.
"India Hate Lab (IHL) documented 1,318 hate speech events targeting religious minorities, particularly Muslims and Christians, in 2025 across 21 states, one union territory, and the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi. On average, four hate speech events occurred per day. This marks a 13% incr
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Understanding Media Consumption, Preferences, and Satisfaction of South and Southeast Asian Religious Online Media Consumers: The Case of Radio Veritas Asia’s Website
Religion and Social Communication, volume 23, issue 2 (2025), pp. 426-450
"The way people communicate, gather, and process information continues to evolve in response to new communication technologies. With the rise of the internet and digital media, the use of traditional media platforms, such as radio, decreased. Radio Veritas Asia (RVA), a non-profit Catholic radio sta
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Political Deification and Religious Populism in Modi’s India
Populism, volume 8 (2025), 28 pp.
"The article explores the phenomenon of political deification within the framework of religious populism, focusing on the leadership of Narendra Modi in India. Drawing on discourse theory, religious studies, and critical media studies, the paper examines how Modi’s image is sacralized, positioning
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La misión digital en el Sínodo de la Sinodalidad. Reflexiones desde el testimonio de la Hna. Xiskya Valladares
Yachay, volume 42, issue 81 (2025), pp. 203-217
"El Sínodo sobre la Sinodalidad marcó un punto de inflexión en la misión y la vida de la Iglesia. No ha sido ajeno a ello la reflexión acerca de la evangelización en el mundo digital. La participación de la Hna. Xiskya Valladares en las Asambleas Sinodales como representante de esa misión pe
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"As 12 palavras aqui reunidas – em simbólico compasso com os 12 anos de pontificado – são uma porta de entrada para o coração comunicador do Papa Francisco. Em sua voz e em seus silêncios, em suas mensagens e em seus encontros, ele nos mostrou que a comunicação é alegria que contagia, co
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"Este novo relatório especial, O Sínodo nas Redes, busca estruturar a análise das principais ocorrências e narrativas de quase 950 redes sociais católicas
durante a segunda sessão do Sínodo sobre a Sinodalidade, ocorrida em outubro de 2024. O monitoramento realizado pela Casa Galileia durant
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Rabbis in Israel, Public Relations and Advertising
Religion and Social Communication, volume 23, issue 2 (2025), pp. 303-321
"This article discusses public relations (PR) and advertising in the work of the rabbi in Israel. The rabbi's influence is felt within the religious population such as through the Sabbath sermon from the synagogue pulpit to congregants, but the media is an additional channel to spreading the rabbi's
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Predicting Parishioner Donations: A Study Comparing Lifetime Value Models on a Robust Sample of Catholic Donation Data
Journal of Nonprofit & Public Sector Marketing (2025), 26 pp.
"Parishioner donation behavior is of great interest to church leaders. In many ways, parishioners behave as customers, but rather than buy, they donate. In this paper, donation habits are predicted using three well-received models of buyer behavior: (a) the beta-geometric/negative binomial distribut
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