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Religion, Communications, and Judaism: The Case of Digital Chabad

Menahem Blondheim, Elihu Katz
Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 1 (2016), pp. 89-95
"In their article on 'Building the Sacred Community Online', Oren Golan and Nurit Stadler zoom in on the latest attempts of Chabad, the extrovert Jewish Hasidic group, to harness the newest digital technologies to propagate and popularize its staunchly traditionalist reading of Jewish heritage. Also ... 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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Gerechtigkeit für alle: Religiöser Sozialismus in Mission und Entwicklung

Karl Wilhelm Rennstich
Geneva: Globethics.net (2016), 502 pp.
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Assessing changes in the study of religious communities in digital religion studies

Heidi Campbell, Alessandra Vitullo
Church, Communication and Culture, volume 1, issue 1 (2016), pp. 73-89
"This article provides a focused review of researches undertaken within Digital religion studies in the last three decades, specifically highlighting how religious communities have been studied and approached within this area. It highlights the dominant theoretical and methodological approaches empl ... more
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How Jihadists Use Social Media to Recruit Children: Apps Playfully Teach Kids Extremist Ideologies

jugendschutz.net (2016), 3 pp.
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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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Financial Sustainability of Church Related Organizations: An Empirical Study on Kenya

Bright Gabriel Mawudor
Geneva: Globethics.net (2016), 252 pp.
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The Role and Usage of Apps and Instant Messaging in Religious Mass Events

Juan Narbona, Daniel Arasa
International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, volume 4, issue 3 (2016), pp. 29-42
"In the religious sector, for centuries, pilgrimages have been a clear example of mass events of a spiritual nature. Due to globalization and increased mobility, recent times have seen the multiplication of international events without a fixed location: Taizé encounters, Kumbh Mela (India), and Wor ... more
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SAT-7: A Case Study of a Christian Satellite-TV Network in an Arab and Islamic Context

Leif Ørjan Thingbø
University of Oslo, Department of Media and Communications, Master Thesis in Media Studies (2016), 127 pp.
"This case study investigates SAT-7 – a Christian independent satellite-TV network – in its context – the Middle East and North Africa – with a majority of Islamic inhabitants and traditions. It examines and describes what the actual implemented strategy is in order to do the daily work of S ... more
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Scial Media Policy

Dallas: Catholic Diocese of Dallas (2016), 16 pp.
"Every day, countless conversations take place online about the Catholic faith on social media, and the Diocese of Dallas encourages Church and School personnel to join these conversations to proclaim the Gospel. The Diocese of Dallas also respects the rights of Church and School personnel to use so ... more
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FaithApps.Net: A Method for Studying the Dispersal of Religious Smartphone Applications

Alexander G. J. Tkach, Regina Saskatchewan
University of Regina, Master Thesis (2016), v, 142 pp.
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The Media and Religious Authority

Stewart M. Hoover (ed.)
University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press (2016), viii, 296 pp.
"The contributors to The Media and Religious Authority examine the ways in which new centers of power and influence are emerging as religions seek to "brand" themselves in the media age. Putting their in-depth, incisive studies of particular instances of media production and reception in Asia, Afric ... more
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Religious TV

In: Media Industries in the Middle East 2016
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar; Doha Film Institute (2016), pp. 162-169
"Religious channels in the MENA region are approximately 10 percent of all free-to-air (FTA) channels from 2012 to 2014. This is a relatively high share compared to many markets outside the region, such as the U.K., where religious channels only represent one percent of FTA channels. Religious chann ... more
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Interpretive Communities and Opinion Leaders of Active Catholics: Formation of Attitudes to Church and Social Developments in Engaged Young Catholics in Slovakia

Terézia Roncáková
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"The paper presents results of the research focused on opinion leaders and interpretive communities of young active Catholics in Slovakia in connection with contemporary ecclesial-societal issues. The author pays a special attention to the Church opinion leaders and the sources of the opinion leader ... more
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Desecrating Expression: An Account of Freedom of Expression and Religion in Asia

Gayatri Khandhadai
Bytes for All; Asian Forum for Human Rights & Development; Global Partners Digital (2016), 80 pp.
"This report outlines the international human rights standards and processes related the protection of freedom of expression and religious belief, and discusses regional trends and challenges. The nine country case studies include the stories of many people across the region struggling to defend fre ... more
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Egypt's Blasphemy Laws

Washington, DC: Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (2016), 5 pp.
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Kirchliche Analphabeten: Der öffentliche Diskurs zwischen den Medien und der katholischen Kirche

Stephanie von Luttitz
Berlin: Lit (2016), xi, 386 pp.
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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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"As Good as Dead": The Impact of the Blasphemy Laws in Pakistan

London: Amnesty International (2016), 66 pp.
"This report details how Pakistan’s blasphemy laws violate human rights, both in their substance and their application – whether this is violations of human rights by the state, or abuses of the laws by non-state actors. The laws do not meet human rights standards and lack essential safeguards t ... more
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Strategic Communication Applied to Catholic Church: The Internal Factor

Sara Balonas
In: Strategic Communication for Non-Profit Organisations: Challenges and Alternative Approaches
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