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Comics and sacred texts: Reimagining religion and graphic narratives
Jackson (MS): University Press of Mississippi (2018), xxi, 299 pp.
"In both visual and linguistic forms, graphic narratives reveal representational strategies to encounter the sacred in all its ambivalence. Through close readings and critical inquiry, these essays contemplate the intersections between religion and comics in ways that critically expand our ability t
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"First, we will introduce the international Catholic communication associations OCIC and UNDA through a short history of both organisations, exploring the activities they deployed, the most important developments during their 73-year existence, and look into their relations with the Church, organise
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Digitalizing Islamic Lectures: Islamic Apps and Religious Engagement in Contemporary Indonesia
Contemporary Islam, volume 13 (2018), pp. 201-215
"Contemporary mobile phone technology has brought millions of apps into the pockets of users, including a wide variety oriented towards religious concerns. Such apps appear to be creating new forms of religious engagement, a process that is particularly visible within Indonesia. This paper will exam
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How Violence Shapes Religion: Belief and Conflict in the Middle East and Africa
Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2018), x, 217 pp.
"Is there an inevitable global violent clash unfolding between the world's largest religions: Islam and Christianity? Do religions cause violent conflicts, or are there other factors at play? How can we make sense of increasing reports of violence between Christian and Muslim ethnic communities acro
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The Catholic Church and Twitter
In: Spiritual News: Reporting Religion Around the World
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), pp. 325-346
"The arrival of digital media has brought new challenges to the Roman Catholic Church. While the Church coped mostly successfully with the web 1.0, it has experienced greater difficulty in encountering the world of social media and web 2.0. Examining the role of Twitter in the 2015 Synod of Bishops
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Escolhendo Jesus: Jovens cristãos para uma nova sociedade
Petrópolis: Vozes (2018), 127 pp.
"Os jovens possuem uma cultura própria que se revela de acordo com o contexto de sua história. Perceber a notável diversidade de expressões juvenis presentes na Igreja do Brasil, apresentar cenários em que vivem os jovens e, concomitantemente, oferecer pistas de ação para os animadores, lider
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Creative and Lucrative Da'wa: The Visual Culture of Instagram Amongst Female Muslim Youth in Indonesia
Asiascape: Digital Asia, volume 5, issue 1-2 (2018), pp. 68-99
"Social media have become part of the private and public lifestyles of youth globally. Drawing on both online and offline research in Indonesia, this article focuses on the use of Instagram by Indonesian Muslim youth. It analyzes how religious messages uploaded on Instagram through posts and caption
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Religion and Media in China: Insights and Case Studies from the Mainland, Taiwan and Hong Kong
London; New York: Routledge (2018), xi, 303 pp.
"This volume focuses on the intersection of religion and media in China, bringing interdisciplinary approaches to bear on the role of religion in the lives of individuals and greater shifts within Chinese society in an increasingly media-saturated environment. With case studies focusing on Mainland
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La comunicación digital de la fe religiosa en la sociedad del espectáculo: Abordaje comparativo entre Brasil y Colombia
Porto Alegre: Pontificia Universidad Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Doctoral Thesis (2018), 327 pp.
"Esta investigación aborda el papel de la comunicación digital en la configuración de la fe religiosa, en un contexto cultural predominantemente mediático que, a través de las nuevas tecnologías de la información y de la comunicación, podría estar acelerando el apogeo de La sociedad del esp
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Vigilante Publics: Orientalism, Modernity and Hindutva Fascism in India
Javnost: The Public, volume 25, issue 4 (2018), pp. 333-350
"This paper explores the interconnections of Hindutva fascist repertoires in India and quasi-orientalist discourses. History and common sense are re-written through audiovisual communications to appeal to one section of a dangerously split Indian public and a neoliberal-touristic sensibility elsewhe
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Nuanças políticas entre a televisão e a assistência social católicas: Canção Nova e Cáritas Brasileira
Caminhos (Goiânia), volume 16, issue 1 (2018), pp. 141-154
"A atividade assistencial é a mais antiga e tradicional associada à religião como um todo e ao catolicismo em particular, enquanto a atividade televisiva é uma das mais novas e modernas. No Brasil, a maior emissora de TV católica é a Canção Nova, ao passo que a organização vinculada à igr
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Religion and Social Communication in Asia: Towards a Research Agenda
Religion and Social Communication, volume 16, issue 1 (2018), pp. 3-18
"In all Asian cultures, religion plays an irnportant role. How is this expressed and 'communicated' in word and deed, in rituals, but also in the daily life of peoples and their celebrations? Religious beliefs and practices 'dictate' in many ways behavior and customs. This has been the case over hun
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Unpacking the Blasphemy Laws of Pakistan
Asian Affairs, volume 49, issue 2 (2018), pp. 319-339
"Over the years, Pakistan's notorious blasphemy laws have been a central instrument for the persecution of religious minorities. While these laws are colonial in origin, they exist today within the context of a general Islamisation of laws, which combined with the state's inability to hold a monopol
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Politique et religion au défi de la communication numérique
Paris: L'Harmattan (2018), 288 pp.
Spiritual News: Reporting Religion Around the World
Deep Insights
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), vii, 418 pp.
"The media's coverage of religion is an important question, given the central role which news media play in ensuring that people are up-to-date with religion news developments. The book examines it in different countries. After an introductory section looking at trends in religion news in print, on-
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Médias pionniers au Congo: "Se Kukianga" (1891) et "Minsamu Miayenge" (1892)
Paris: L'Harmattan (2018), 200 pp.
"La méticulosité et la pugnacité de l'auteur l'ont poussé à croiser les références documentaires. Mais ce n'est pas seulement un récit de l'aventure médiatique de deux magazines et de deux missions protestantes européennes dans le Congo de la fi n du XIXe siècle. On ne peut qu'admirer la
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Communicating in Ministry and Mission: An Introduction to Pastoral and Evangelizing Communication
Deep Insights
Manila: Logos (Divine Word) Publications, 4th updated ed. (2018), 319 pp.
"This edition updates and develops the concerns of the emerging field especially also in view of growing technical developments. The section on Evangelizing communication has been partly re-written to more clearly indicate the communication dimension of the field." (Preface)
Espiritualidades, transdisciplinaridade e diálogo 2
Recife: UNICAP (2018), 404 pp.
"To give publicity to our thoughts": Journale asiatischer und afrikanischer Christen um 1900 und die Entstehung einer transregionalen indigen-christlichen Öffentlichkeit
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag (2018), 378 pp.
"Gegen Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts begannen indigen-christliche Eliten in Asien und Afrika, sich stärker in der kolonialen Öffentlichkeit ihrer Länder zu artikulieren. Sie gründeten ihre eigenen Journale, kritisierten Missstände in Gesellschaft und Missionskirchen, beteiligten sich an sozialen Be
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