"How do religious collectivities which are predicated on the Word generate images of themselves in the highly competitive religious marketplaces of many African urban spaces today?' Focusing on the burgeoning Christian charismatic and pentecostal movements of Ghana and Nigeria, I explore how and why
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these movements are increasingly favoring electronic media as suitable sites for the transmission of their teachings and erecting of their empires. I will show how this process, no more than two decades old, both concurs with and challenges their religious ideology. I argue further that these developments result in transformation of the religious landscape in at least two ways: one, they are facilitating transnational and homogenizing cultural flows, and two, they are taking the connections between these movements and the net- works they create to new, global levels. Given my concern to identify African agency in these transnational developments, local forces feature more prominently in the discussion of this." (Abstract)
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"Der 'investigative Journalismus' ist Faszinosum und Provokation zugleich. Das Bild, das vom Journalisten in der Öffentlichkeit gezeigt wird, ist vielfach von dieser Rolle geprägt. Diese Art von Journalismus stößt auf breite Aufmerksamkeit und er wird ebenso heftig verteidigt wie abgelehnt. Die
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Arbeit beantwortet die Frage, inwieweit diese Praxis aus der Sicht der christlichen Ethik als begründet, d. h. als ethisch vertretbar, angesehen werden kann, oder wo aus der Sicht der christlichen Ethik Grenzmarkierungen gezogen werden müssen, d. h. sich diese Praxis nicht oder nicht mehr ethisch vertreten läßt." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Many women and men professionally engaged in advertising do have sensitive consciences, high ethical standards and a strong sense of responsibility. But even for them external pressures — from the clients who commission their work as well as from the competitive internal dynamics of their profess
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ion — can create powerful inducements to unethical behavior. That underlines the need for external structures and systems to support and encourage responsible practice in advertising and to discourage the irresponsible. Voluntary ethical codes are one such source of support. These already exist in a number of places. Welcome as they are, though, they are only as effective as the willingness of advertisers to comply strictly with them. "It is up to the directors and managers of the media which carry advertising to make known to the public, to subscribe to and to apply the codes of professional ethics which already have been opportunely established so as to have the cooperation of the public in making these codes still better and in enforcing their observance." We emphasize the importance of public involvement. Representatives of the public should participate in the formulation, application and periodic updating of ethical codes. The public representatives should include ethicists and church people, as well as representatives of consumer groups. Individuals do well to organize themselves into such groups in order to protect their interests in relation to commercial interests." (Conclusion, page 20)
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"Una lista de 16 instituciones católicas bolivianas activas en el campo de la comunicación social, 7 publicaciones periódicas, 39 emisoras de radio católicas, 9 canales de televisión, 11 centros de producción, 7 casas editoriales o imprentas y 3 centros de educación superior." (commbox)
The book is divided into two parts - the films which depict Jesus and those films in which Jesus becomes a metaphoric Christ-figure [...] It is a good reading, extremely well researched, and for the most part clear about its own limitations.
"El presente manual recoge, por un lado, lo que ya realizó en su momento Comunicación, misión y desafío,(1986) y lo que ofreció el manual de Comunicación para la pastoral y pastoral de la comunicación (1995), del Servicio Conjunto de Comunicación que agrupa las tres grandes organizaciones ca
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tólicas de comunicación: OCIC-AL, UCLAP y UNDA-AL, que tiene sede en Quito, Ecuador. El presente manual será de ahora en adelante una ayuda útil para quienes desean impulsaren América Latina una pastoral de la comunicación, siguiendo para ello lo largamente enseñado y afirmado por la voz de los Pastores de la Iglesia, y que encuentra su expresión en los diversos documentos donde se aborda este tema." (https://documental.celam.org)
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