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The Dictionary of the Bible and Ancient Media
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Tom Thatcher, Chris Keith, Raymond F. Person, Elsie R. Stern, Judith Odor (eds.)

London et al.: Bloomsbury (2017), xviii, 479 pp.

"The Dictionary of the Bible and Ancient Media is a convenient and authoritative reference tool, introducing specific terms and concepts helpful to the study of the Bible and related literature in ancient communications culture. Since the early 1980s, biblical scholars have begun to explore the pote ... more

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Thai Buddhism, the Mass Media, and Culture Change in Thailand

Patchanee Malikhao

In: Culture and Communication in Thailand

Patchanee Malikhao

Singapore: Springer (2017), pp. 1-16

"This paper attempts to analyze the following:(1) How the Sangha, or the Buddhist body of Thailand, has been impacted since it has become part of the state during the reign of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V); (2) How the economic and social development has an impact on Thai Buddhism, especially the anim ... more

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Controversies and Restrictions of Visual Representation of Prophets in Northern Nigerian Popular Culture

Abdalla Uba Adamu

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 9, issue 1 (2017), pp. 17-31

"Generally, images in art forms occupy a controversial position in the Islamic world. The Sunni branch of Islam, considered more conservative and strict does not approve or condone representational art of the human form for fear that it would eventually turn into an object of worship. The Shi’ite ... more

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Fatwa on Satellite TV and the Development of Islamic Religious Discourse

Noureddine Miladi, Saleh Karim, Mahroof Athambawa

Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, volume 10, issue 2 (2017), pp. 129-152

"Satellite TV and the Internet revolutions have reinvigorated religious discourse in public spaces. Across the world, religious TV channels and Internet religious websites have taken up the roles of traditional religious spaces such as churches, mosques, synagogues, gurdwaras and temples. Islamic re ... more

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Religionen als Partner für Frieden in der Welt: Potenziale für die Außenpolitik

Peter Bender

Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2017), 111 pp.

"Wie thematisieren Staaten und internationale Organisationen Religion in den internationalen Beziehungen? Wodurch bauen sie Religionskompetenz in ihren Außenbeziehungen auf und wo arbeiten sie mit Religionsgemeinschaften erfolgreich zusammen? Was folgt daraus für Deutschlands Außenpolitik? Diese ... more

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Sunniten und Schiiten: Worum es in dem Konflikt wirklich geht

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Popular Cultural Action, Catholic Transnationalism, and Development in Colombia before Vatican II

Mary Roldán

In: Local Church, Global Church: Catholic Activism in Latin America from Rerum Novarum to Vatican II

Julia G. Young; Stephen J. C. Andes (eds.)

Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press (2016), pp. 245-274

"This chapter examines the history and development of Popular Cultural Action (Acción Cultural Popular, or ACPO), the multipronged project of Christian revitalization, local empowerment, and communitybased development whose radio education network, Radio Sutatenza, founded by a Colombian parish pri ... est in 1947 to address rural adult illiteracy, became Latin America’s first Catholic radio network and the model for media-based rural education and community development programs in twenty-four countries throughout Latin America, Asia, and Africa. In nearly a half century of existence, ACPO published and distributed more than six million cartillas (illustrated instructional manuals) for its five-point “Fundamental Integral Education” (EFI) program, which included Alphabet, Numbers, Health, Economy and Work, and Practical Spirituality; distributed seventy-six million copies of the newspaper El Campesino; received and answered 1.2 million letters from rural listeners and readers; graduated twenty-three thousand Colombian and foreign radio auxiliaries and community leaders from its training institutes; logged 1.4 million hours of educational broadcasting; and pressed 690,000 records. By 1990, when ACPO was forced to shutter its press and record-cutting studios and sell off its 245 radio network and buildings, it had a presence in hundreds of rural parishes stretched across the length and breadth of Colombia, and its broadcasts and educational materials were frequently acknowledged as inspiration for many a professional of rural origin. ACPO was but one among many other Colombian projects inspired by Leo XIII’s Rerum novarum (1891) and spearheaded by both laypeople and clergy that emerged in the period before Vatican II to redress longstanding social, economic, and cultural inequalities made more acute in the first half of the twentieth century by the specter of totalitarianism, economic crisis, rural migration, urbanization, and incipient industrialization. This chapter traces the history of ACPO between 1947 and 1962. It grew from modest origins, conducting adult rural literacy work and basic community-centered development in three small, Central Andean settlements supported by local in-kind contributions and a small diocesan subsidy. Gradually, it would expand into a multimedia-based educational juggernaut with transnational influence, partners, and funding lauded by Pope Pius XII in a 1953 Vatican Radio broadcast heard throughout Latin America. By the late 1950s, ACPO was held as the model for Catholic-directed, radio-based rural education and community development. ACPO’s success and eventual influence beyond Colombia’s borders was partly the result of Catholic transnational activism occurring in the decades before Vatican II. Efforts to redress the excesses of unrestrained capitalism and to build a community based in papal encyclicals such as Rerum novarum or Quadragesimo anno, even when they stopped short of advocating the kind of structural, grassroots Christian base community approach embraced by Liberation theology, I suggest, laid the foundations for participatory and transformative forms of social action that emerged after Vatican II." (Pages 245-246) more

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Laudato Si: Sobre el cuidado de nuestra casa común. Radionovela

Red Eclesial Panamazónica (REPAM) (2016), 212 pp.

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Llegó aquí la palabra: La cosmovisión Maya, viva y difundida a través de los medios de comunicación comunitarios

Amalia Jiménez Galán, Sandoval, Ricardo, Carlos Humberto Chicol Muj et al.

Fundación Comunicándonos;Voces;AMARC World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (2016), 104 pp.

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La vida en la pantalla: Del cine a la sociedad digital

Luis García Orso

México, DF: Buena Prensa (2016), 126 pp.

"Con mirada contemplativa, el espectador de cine e internet es capaz de encontrar 'al otro' en la pantalla. Hoy es necesario conmoverse, detenerse ante el prójimo y poner los ojos en la periferias visuales. No importa de qué lado de la pantalla estemos. Cinéfilo y jesuita, el autor de este libro ... more

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Folklore, religion and the songs of a Bengali madman: A journey between performance and the politics of cultural representation

Carola Erika Lorea

Leiden; Boston: Brill (2016), xvi, 332 pp.

"This book explores historical and cultural aspects of modern and contemporary Bengal through the performance-centred study of a particular repertoire: the songs of the saint-composer Bhaba Pagla (1902-1984), who is particularly revered among Baul and Fakir singers. The author shows how songs, if ex ... more

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Perils of Perception 2016: A 40-Country Study

Ipsos (2016), 30 slides

"These are the latest findings from the Ipsos Perils of Perception survey. The results highlight how wrong people across 40 countries are about some key issues and features of the population in their country. Perceptions are not reality… Nearly all countries overestimate their Muslim population, a ... more

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Strategic Communication Applied to Catholic Church: The Internal Factor

Sara Balonas

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Evandro Oliveira; Ana Duarte Melo; Gisela Gonçalves (eds.)

Wilmington, Delaware; Malaga: Vernon Press (2016), pp. 169-189

"The scope of this paper is to present an innovative internal communication strategy applied to non-profit organisations, such as religious institutions. Strategic communicational principles led to the design of a Vocational Pastoral Teams Kit, implemented in the north of Portugal, to reinforce the ... more

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Medienbildung und Teilhabegerechtigkeit: Impulse der Publizistischen Kommission der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz zu den Herausforderungen der Digitalisierung

Bonn: Deutsche Bischofskonferenz (2016), 30 pp.

"Eine umfassende Medienbildung ermöglicht es, die Prinzipien der katholischen Soziallehre auch in Bezug auf digitale Medien wahrzunehmen. Einzelne wie gesellschaftliche Gruppen können so zu einem souveränen Umgang mit Phänomenen der Digitalisierung wie mit digitalen Medien befähigt werden. Medi ... more

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Die pastorale Funktion der kirchlichen Archive

Päpstliche Kommission für die Kulturgüter der Kirche

Bonn: Deutsche Bischofskonferenz, Sekretariat (2016), 156 pp.

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Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and its Threat to Democracy

Cherian George

Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (2016), xviii, 308 pp.

"Outbreaks of religious intolerance are usually assumed to be visceral and spontaneous. But in 'Hate Spin', Cherian George shows that they often involve sophisticated campaigns manufactured by political opportunists to mobilize supporters and marginalize opponents. Right-wing networks orchestrate th ... more

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Church Communications: Creative Strategies for Promoting Cultural Change. Proceedings of the 9th Professional Seminar for Church Communications Offices

Daniel Arasa, Cristian Mendoza, Sergio Tapia-Velasco (eds.)

Rome: EDUSC (2016), 580 pp.

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L’information religieuse: La news value de "proximite" comme criterie de "sortie vers les peripheries". Une confrontation entre l’information religieuse et l’information laïque

Dieudonné Niyibizi

Rome: Université Pontificale Salesienne, Faculté des Sciences de la Communication Sociale, Thèse de Licence (2016), 165 pp.

"Au second chapitre, nous avons vu que, dans l’ensemble, cette mission du journaliste se heurte à pas mal de défis dont l’identité, la qualité de l’audience, le contenu, ainsi la formation de ses agents. Le journaliste catholique travaille dans une entreprise qui, naturellement répond aux ... more

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