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Fundamentalisms and the Media

Stewart M. Hoover, Nadia Kaneva (eds.)

London: Continuum (2009), xii, 223 pp.

"Outside the West, religion is an ever more prominent force in social and political movements of both reform and retrenchment. Across these contexts, no issue in religion is of as much concern as fundamentalism - or rather the fundamentalisms within various traditions - which are seen to be fomentin ... more

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iMuslims: Rewiring the House of Islam
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Gary R. Bunt

London: Hurst (2009), 358 pp.

"The internet has profoundly shaped how Muslims perceive Islam, and how Islamic societies and networks are evolving and shifting within the twenty-first century. While these electronic interfaces appear new and innovative in terms of how the media is applied, much of their content has a basis in cla ... more

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Catholics in the Movies

Colleen McDannell (ed.)

Oxford et al.: Oxford University Press (2008), xiv, 362 pp.

"Rather than being marginal to American popular culture, Catholic people, places, and rituals are all central to the world of the movie. Catholics in the Movies begins with an introductory essay that orients readers to the ways that films appear in culture and describes the broad trends that can be ... more

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Communicating Peace: Entertaining Angels Unawares

Philip Lee (ed.)

Penang (MY): Southbound (2008), 269 pp.

"Communication rights and the ever more urgent need to construct a culture of peace are central to a vision of a world in which universal human values displace the accumulated weight of history’s tyrannies. Michael Traber, to whom this book is dedicated, believed that there is only one way of over ... more

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Predigen lernen: Ein Lehrbuch für die Praxis

Achim Härtner, Holger Eschmann

Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (wbg), Lizenzausg. (2008), 240 pp.

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Theology and Film: Challenging the Sacred/Secular Divide

Christopher Deacy, Gaye Williams Ortiz

Malden: Blackwell (2008), xiv, 245 pp.

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Indonesia: Jemaah Islamiyah's Publishing Industry

Jakarta; Bruxelles: International Crisis Group (2008), 22 pp.

"A handful of members and persons close to Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), Indonesia’s most prominent extremist organisation, have developed a profitable publishing consortium in and around the pesantren (religious school) founded by Abu Bakar Ba’asyir and Abdullah Sungkar in Solo, Central Java. The cons ... more

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Evangélicos e mídia no Brasil: Uma história de acertos e desacertos

Leonildo Silveira Campos

Rever: Revista de Estudos da Religião, issue setembro (2008), pp. 1-26

"Este artigo contém duas partes. Na primeira, há um conjunto de reflexões sobre as relações entre evangélicos e mídia no Brasil. Nela, se faz um passeio por um processo de mudanças ocorridas desde a fase da oralidade e da imprensa até o período contemporâneo, que é o da comunicação med ... more

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Politics and Book Publishing in the Pacific Islands

Linda S. Crowl

Wollongong: University of Wollongong, Doctoral Thesis (2008), xii, 407 pp.

"This dissertation discusses interactions between politics and book publishing by missions and colonial governments in areas of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia over approximately 200 years [...] From its inception, book publishing in the Pacific Islands has been a significant instrument of ideo ... more

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'Signos': Una voz de la iglesia de los pobres en el Perú 1980-2008

Pablo Espinoza Espinoza

Lima: Instituto Bartolomé de Las Casas;Centro de Estudios y Publicaciones (CEP) (2008), 185 pp.

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Plaatsingslijst van het archief Signis (OCIC en UNDA)

Leuven: KADOC (2008), 28 pp.

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Religião e TV: Um estudo de programas neopentecostais

Celso Alfaro Malheiros

São Paulo: Faculdade Cáspero Líbero, Mestrado en Comunicação (2008), 194 pp.

"The religious presence on TV programs has been increasing in Brazil, where churches, especially the neopentecostals, have been using the mass communication ways, especially the television, to advertise their messages and attract new followers. This project studies the usage of television by religio ... more

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Wunder der Leinwand: Filme mit biblischer Botschaft

Stephan Sigg

Stuttgart: Katholisches Bibelwerk (2008), 120 pp.

"Ob "Herr der Ringe", "Das Leben der Anderen" oder "Bruce Allmächtig" - in vielen populären Kino-Filmen werden Gott, die Bibel und aktuelle ethische Fragen thematisiert. Doch wie findet man den passenden Film zum jeweiligen religiös-ethischen Thema? Der Autor liefert auf kompakte Art und Weise ei ... more

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Semeando a boa semente: Reflexões bíblicas. Programas radiofônicos

Valter Maurício Goedert

São Paulo: Paulinas (2008), 120 pp.

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Community Development and Church-Based Radio Broadcasting in Papua New Guinea

Joys Eggins

In: South Pacific Islands Communication: Regional Perspectives, Local Issues

Evangelia Papoutsaki; Usha Sundar Harris (eds.)

Singapur: Asian Mass Communication Research and Information Centre (AMIC) (2008), pp. 206-218

"It is my hypothesis that church-based radio stations can contribute to community development. A total of 50 respondents out of 60 confirm that they listen to and understand community-development programmes through these stations. The messages are either fully understood, or partially in cases where ... more