"La partida de nuestro hermano, el cardenal Cláudio Hummes, arzobispo emérito de São Paulo, deja un profundo vacío en la Iglesia de América Latina y el Caribe. Su legado, especialmente en la Iglesia amazónica, le permitieron trascender como uno de los más grandes e insignes obispos de nuestro
...
tiempo. Fue el principal impulsor de la Red Eclesial Panamazónica (Repam), plataforma que capitalizó el Sínodo Amazónico de 2019 y, por ende, la creación de la inédita Conferencia Eclesial de la Amazonía (Ceama), instancias que lideró con pasión misionera como desde el primer día, cuando se encarnó entre los indígenas haciéndose uno más entre ellos. Hoy muchos lo recuerdan como el Francisco de la Amazonía, haciendo esa alegoría a san Francisco de Asís y, por consiguiente, a la de su gran amigo Jorge Mario Bergoglio." (Página 2)
more
"This survey paper interrogates four theoretical frameworks often invoked to analyze intersections between media and religion: mediatization, mediation of meaning, mediation of the beyond, and religious social shaping of technology. The paper surveys several research works informed by the aforementi
...
oned theories that study Pentecostals' engagement with different forms of media in Africa. This paper suggests that these theories need to be revised to provide a balanced assessment of Pentecostalism and media technologies. Advancements in technology, particularly sophisticated of algorithms, transformed media into an intelligent and dynamic space that enormously influences media consumers. The theory of mediatization gave power and agency to media logic. However, the other theories (mediation of meaning, mediation of the beyond, and religious social shaping of technology) focused on human agency and saw media as an inert space with many features that users can use as they see fit. To remedy this unbalanced relationship, the paper calls for a new theory that accounts for the agency of both the users and the media platforms." (Abstract)
more
"This book explores marketing as a genuine component of religious traditions. It investigates the theme across a large historical and geographical area, and in a variety of expressions, ranging from 3rd BCE Maya stucco friezes, early Christian writings, and 9th CE Cambodian inscriptions, right down
...
to modern-day propaganda and recruitment strategies adopted by the ISIS jihadi movement, Falun Gong, Muslim Varkaris, spirit mediums in India and Thailand, Thai Buddhist monasteries, and the Vatican. The book is unique in its theme and scope. The chapters were written without a single controlling agenda, but all emphasize the need to view our modern consumer society as only one among many historical conditions that have shaped religious marketing. In fact, it will become clear from reading through the chapters that marketing and propaganda are inherent in religions and their teachings. The broad scope of the book shows religious marketing as embedded in and responding to diverse cultural settings, rather than as an isolated component of utility maximization. It allows us to understand religious marketing as a large window into the mental and cultural landscapes of the studied communities. This will have an eye-opening methodological impact on an area of studies that often limits itself to a narrow view of interactions between two opposing fields: spirituality and the market." (Publisher description)
more
"Il volume, nato dall’esperienza dei 150 video tutorial dell’Associazione Webmaster Cattolici Italiani (WECA), offre un cammino in quattro tappe per riflettere, scoprire, condividere sui social e pubblicare sul web l’esperienza di una Chiesa che, appunto, è presente anche nel mondo digitale.
...
Un percorso che, soprattutto alla luce dell’esperienza della pandemia, propone come «abitare il digitale» con consapevolezza e formazione senza perdere di vista la continua evoluzione degli strumenti e delle piattaforme digitali. Così da proporre una copertina del libro “interattiva”, con la presenza di un QR Code e lo sviluppo di un algoritmo che accompagnano e ne arricchiscono la lettura con contributi multimediali sempre aggiornati. Prefazione di Papa Francesco." (Publisher description)
more
"Polnische Juden stellten nicht nur die größte Gruppe unter den Opfern des Holocaust, in den 1930er Jahren hatte auch kein Land Europas mehr jüdische Einwohner und einen vielfältigeren jüdischen Printmarkt als Polen. Die Studie trägt zu einem Paradigmenwechsel bei, der diese Tatsachen stärker
...
berücksichtigt, indem er den Blick von Ost nach West richtet und die polnischen Juden nicht länger als monolithischen Block passiver Opfer begreift, sondern als handelnde Subjekte, die den Antisemitismus, der sie bedrohte, aktiv bekämpften. Aufbauend auf einer Analyse der Berichterstattung der jiddischen Warschauer Tagespresse über Nationalsozialismus und Judenverfolgung legt sie die Netzwerke der jüdischen Zeitungsmacher frei und zeigt, wie diese sich trotz Zensur und Repression subversives Wissen aneigneten, es ihrem Publikum vermittelten und so die Vorstellungswelten polnischer Juden über Deutschland prägten sowie Protest- und Solidaritätsaktionen zugunsten der Verfolgten initiierten." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
more
"Der Propagandafilm »Jud Süß« (1940) wurde von den Nationalsozialisten gezielt eingesetzt, um antisemitische Gewalttaten hervorzurufen - zum Beispiel in den Konzentrationslagern. Umso erstaunlicher ist es, dass der Regisseur Veit Harlan nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg die antisemitische Stoßrichtung
...
des Filmes leugnete. Bill Niven schildert in seinem Buch u. a. die intensive Debatte um den Film - und um die Person Harlans - im Nachkriegsdeutschland. Demonstrationen in Westdeutschland in den 1950er Jahren gegen Harlans Neueinstieg ins Filmgeschäft spielten eine wichtige Rolle bei der Entwicklung einer demokratischen Protestkultur und einer Abwehrhaltung gegenüber Antisemitismus. Im Nahen Osten aber fing Harlans Film ein neues Leben an - als antiisraelische Propaganda. Die Bundesrepublik reagierte auf diesen Missbrauch recht zögerlich. Damit war aber die Geschichte des Films keineswegs zu Ende. Bis in die Gegenwart versucht man, anhand von »Jud Süß« mit pädagogischen Mitteln aufzuzeigen, wie antisemitische Propaganda funktioniert - die Angst vor dem Film ist aber noch groß." (Verlagsinformation)
more
"This book focuses on the ethnographic study of Catholicism and media. Chapters demonstrate how people engage with the Catholic media-scape, and analyse the social, cultural, and political processes that underlie Catholic media and mediatization. Case studies examine Catholic practices in North Amer
...
ica, Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America, South-East Asia, and Africa, providing a truly comparative, de-centred representation of global Catholicism. Illustrating the vibrancy and heterogeneity of Catholicism worldwide, the book also examines how media work to sustain larger global Catholic imaginaries." (Publisher description)
more
"Inclusive advocacy is mindful of the impact of its goals and objectives on all members of society and ensures that those directly impacted are adequately represented. Strong and inclusive advocacy campaigns build commitment and a cohesive vision among those involved and speak with a strong and unit
...
ed voice. Effective inclusive advocacy requires taking the time and investing resources into how you will reach, collaborate, and influence each of your audiences. Inclusive advocacy is critical in building relationships and credibility in order to have buy-in of the communities affected for longterm sustainability." (Page 1)
more
"This comparative ethnography of a Muslim and a Christian Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon focuses on contrasting social belonging processes through a ritualization approach. Leonardo Schiocchet argues that contrasts emerge out of the intersectionality of religiosity, nationhood, refugeeness and
...
politics, and synthesizes academic research on piety and moral self-cultivation and on the everyday-life of religious communities. He contributes to the literature on refugees at large, and Palestinian refugees in special, with the unique dense socio-historical portrait of two refugee camps for which there is almost no recorded literature." (Publisher description)
more
"This thematic issue asks about the role of religions and religious actors and conspiracy theories/theorists in democratic and authoritarian regimes in general. Special attention is given to the current Covid]19 pandemic, since the relevant state of emergency obviously endorses the persuasiveness
...
of conspiracy theories and makes the comparison with religions necessary. In this respect, the challenges religious prejudices and conspiracy myths imply could even shed light on the problem of whether democracy or authoritarianism is the best regime to fight the Coronavirus successfully. The articles at hand answer these issues from interdisciplinary areas, particularly from political science, sociology, social psychology, and history." (Editorial, page 132)
more
"This article is a study of mourning among Shi’a Muslims during the COVID-19 pandemic through a call-in talk show called #IAMHUSSEINI. By analyzing the discourses of callers and presenters and locating them within a visual context of the television studio, this article shows how the viewership of
...
#IAMHUSSEINI constitutes a televisual majlis (Arabic: ‘assembly’) composed of more than passive asynchronous consumption and resembling what Patrick Eisenlohr refers to as ‘atmospheres’. This article argues that the COVID-19 pandemic drove #IAMHUSSEINI to recalibrate to expectations of a spatially proximate ritual, rather than sustaining a ‘natively digital’ aesthetic, repurposing Richard Rogers’ approach to digital methods. This change brought about a tacit understanding of the televisual majlis among #IAMHUSSEINI’s viewers. This article therefore posits a difference between ‘spatial intercorporeality’, in which bodies are mediated by spatial proximity, and ‘functional intercorporeality’, in which they are mediated by the material preconditions of a shared activity." (Abstract)
more
"Este libro ofrece una historia institucional de una de las radios educativas más destacadas en Amércia Latina. Radio Santa María nació 1956 en La Vega, concebida por visionarios de la Compañía de Jesús y laicos entusiastas que querían aprovechar el nuevo medio para acompañar a las comunida
...
des campesinas de la zona. 15 años después, se unió la escuela radiofónica, y ambos componentes definieron la misión y las actividades de la obra, al servicio de los más vulnerables y de la Iglesia." (Cubierta del libro)
more
"Das Craftbook ist ein Werkzeugkasten, der innovative Projekte in kirchlichen Organisationen beschleunigt. Als zusammenhängendes Framework lassen sich die Tools und Methoden sowohl zur langfristigen Prozessplanung, zur Stärkung des Markenprofils als auch zur Gestaltung von einzelnen Arbeitsphasen
...
nutzen. Es begleitet Dich von der Formulierung eigener Mission Statements über die Definition von Zielgruppen bis hin zur Wettbewerbsanalyse, Entwicklung einer Markenstrategie und Produktimplementierung." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
more
"Die vorliegende Pilotstudie kontextualisiert zunächst das Phänomen, das sich hinter dem Begriff „Digitale Communities“ verbirgt im Feld der wissenschaftlichen Begleitforschung und nimmt begriffliche Schärfungen vor (Kap. 2). Im Zentrum stehen dann die empirischen Ergebnisse der Befragung der
...
Followerschaft der 13 christlichen Influencer*innen auf Instagram (Kap. 4) und die daraus ableitbaren Steckbriefe der 13 Instagram-Profile (Kap. 9). Schließlich werden Einsichten, Fragestellungen und Ausblicke vorgestellt, die sich aus der Interpretation der empirischen Ergebnisse für die evangelische Kirche, ihre kirchliche Praxis und ihr Digitalisierungsbestreben ergeben (Kap. 5). Eine Einordnung der Ergebnisse aus Sicht des yeet-Netzwerkes nimmt Lilith Becker als Leiterin des Netzwerkes vor (Kap. 6) und eine praktisch-theologische Einordnung PD Dr. Sabrina Müller und Mag.Theol. Alina Knapp (Kap. 7)." (Einleitung)
more
"The collection of critiques advances a powerful question that must be asked if we are to gain a broader and deeper understanding of humanity. The phenomenon of Divine-human communication (DHC) is framed as an area of scholarship replete with heurism, not limiting itself to Judeo-Christian belief sy
...
stems. Instead, the authors individually and collectively address the ideological diversity in existent DHC and the robust research that has yet to be explored in the discipline. The chapters beautifully tie together and articulate the necessity of theistic communication research, stressing the intersectional identities of theist-scholars in their study of phenomena where religious ideologies are activated. As a religious communication scholar who also identifies as a theist-scholar, I found every chapter empowering, as they encourage the field to reconsider its positionality towards an area of scholarship that attempts to 'measure the immeasurable.' God Talk debunks the broad misconception that theist-scholars are attempting to advance a religious campaign of indoctrination. Moreover, the book provides a very strong foundation upon which others can stand as they interrogate communication phenomena where one’s religious identity and relationship and communication with God/Creator/Higher Power are intertwined in theoretical yet practical ways." (Tina M. Harris, Endowed Chair of Race, Media, and Cultural Literacy, Louisiana State University)
more