"Este artigo integra pesquisas desenvolvidas em minha tese de doutoramento “A Educomunicação no Diretório de Comunicação da Igreja no Brasil: aprendizagem em perspectiva”, defendida junto à Universidade de São Paulo. Aqui apresentamos os documentos específicos produzidos pelas três prim
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eiras Conferências Episcopais a avançarem no campo da comunicação no mundo católico. Buscamos tecer análise comparativa entre esses documentos, delineando contribuições que cada uma e o conjunto dessas produções trazem para o campo da comunicação e a prática pastoral da Igreja Católica na Itália, no Brasil e no Caribe." (Resumo)
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"O objetivo desta publicação é contribuir para que sejam aprofundadas, numa visão integrada, as mensagens do Dia Mundial das Comunicações Sociais de 1967 a 2019. Para isso, as autoras fazem o percurso histórico dos caminhos da comunicação a partir do Concílio Vaticano II: a reflexão das 5
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3 mensagens de Paulo VI a Francisco. Pode-se afirmar que há um caminho progressivo nas orientações do Magistério da Igreja no que diz respeito à compreensão da comunicação, que se revela nessas mensagens. Da comunicação analógica à digital, nos contatos presenciais e a distância, em sua missão de evangelizar, a Igreja compreende que não é possível fazer isso sem marcar presença nos meios de comunicação social, que fazem parte do cotidiano da família, dos mais diversos grupos, no trabalho, no interior ou nas metrópoles. Por isso, a orientação da Igreja é no sentido de se fazer presente com os valores humanos e cristãos nos "areópagos da comunicação", nos ambientes digitais, evangelizando com as novas linguagens da cultura da comunicação. A obra reforça a insistência contínua dos papas no sentido da educação para a comunicação, despertando a consciência crítica perante as produções disponíveis em todas as mídias e plataformas. Pais, educadores, catequistas, lideranças eclesiais precisam ter presente esses elementos em sua ação pastoral e evangelizadora. A educação para a comunicação, evidenciada nas mensagens, inclui também o incentivo para estar presente, de maneira cristã, na era digital, especialmente nas networks que permeiam o dia a dia das pessoas. Este livro ajuda a iluminar a formação no campo pastoral e da evangelização, tanto para os agentes pastorais quanto para quem deseja pesquisar e conhecer o pensamento do Magistério da Igreja sobre a comunicação nestes últimos cinquenta anos." (Descrição da editora de livros)
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"Dieses Buch will ein Nachschlagewerk zu den verschiedenen Facetten muslimischen Lebens in Deutschland sein. Es bietet Journalisten – aber auch allen anderen Interessierten – Grundlagen und Hintergrundinformationen und schöpft dabei aus dem reichhaltigen Fundus an wissenschaftlichen Studien, di
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e es zu Islam und Muslimen in Deutschland gibt. Manche Begriffe sind unter Wissenschaftlern umstritten. Das gilt insbesondere für den Begriff der „Integration“, der sich in den medialen und politischen Debatten großer Beliebtheit erfreut. Darunter kann man Unterschiedliches verstehen. Im wissenschaftlichen Diskurs ist dagegen häufiger von „Teilhabe“ und „Partizipation“ die Rede. Ähnliches gilt für Begriffe wie „Islamismus“ oder „politischer Islam“. Viele Fachleute sprechen lieber von „religiös begründetem Extremismus“, um deutlich zu machen, dass dieser keine islamische Spezialität ist. Auch der Begriff „Islamfeindlichkeit“ ist umstritten. Viele Experten aus Wissenschaft und Zivilgesellschaft sprechen eher von „antimuslimischem Rassismus“, den sie als eine Form eines modernen Rassismus betrachten, der Menschen aufgrund ihrer vermeintlichen „Kultur“ oder Religion abwertet." (Vorwort, Seiten 11-12)
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" En sus 160 páginas se contiene el testimonio directo del pensamiento del Papa Francisco acerca de la comunicación, desde la perspectiva de la cultura del encuentro y articulando la relación entre el bien, la belleza y la verdad. Como afirma Paolo Ruffini, prefecto del Dicasterio para la Comunic
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ación, en el prólogo del volumen, a través de las palabras del Papa pronunciadas en numerosos discursos e intervenciones y en los mensajes para las Jornadas mundiales de las Comunicaciones Sociales que sobre esta materia ha realizado durante su Pontificado. Se añaden además, dos importantes discursos a los comunicadores como Arzobispo de Buenos Aires. Un diálogo constante acerca de la relación entre la comunicación y la verdad, una comunicación que ha de tener como misión y objetivo la búsqueda de la verdad, del bien y de la belleza. Para Francisco, comunicar la verdad en su integridad supone hacerse prójimo del otro, contraponiendo al mito de la dureza la revolución de la ternura. Este libro ha sido regalado por el Papa Francisco a los periodistas en el último encuentro con la Asociación de la prensa extranjera en Roma. En suma, las palabras del Papa Francisco, con su original estilo, sobre la comunicación para el bien, la verdad y la belleza." (Descripción de la casa editorial)
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"Se ofrece una contextualización histórica de los marcos institucionales para el período de referencia (1965-2015) con relación a las definiciones que la institución fue desarrollando sobre la comunicación y los medios de comunicación en el orden internacional y en la región de América Lati
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na y el Caribe. La mencionada región coincide con la articulación regional del CELAM (Consejo Episcopal Latinoamericano) y en consecuencia de todas las instituciones regionales católicas. El CELAM representa los espacios más jerárquicos en la región y para incorporar otras miradas, fue seleccionada SIGNIS ALC que es la única asociación de comunicación católica, predominantemente laica, reconocida por el Pontificio Consejo de los laicos y el de la Comunicación Social. Esta última ha tenido gran incidencia en diversas acciones, particularmente en los años sesenta con el desarrollo de las radios educativas y todas las luchas por las reivindicaciones vinculadas al “Derecho a la comunicación” y “Nuevo orden mundial de la información y la comunicación”. Luego, a través de entrevistas en profundidad a referentes de la comunicación católica de la región, mediante la técnica de bola de nieve, se conformó el universo de medios indagados, llegando a un total de setenta y siete. A los directores o principales referentes de los medios, se les aplicó un cuestionario, llegando a un total de cincuenta y cuatro respondientes, es decir el 70,13% del universo total. En segunda instancia se analizaron los textos de las secciones “¿Quiénes somos?” “¿Qué hacemos?” y “Nuestra historia”, presentes en las páginas web institucionales de los medios analizados. Cincuenta y cinco medios, un 73,42% del total, nos permitieron realizar este trabajo. Los restantes no poseían estas secciones. Mediante el sistema de codificación que ofrece la teoría fundamentada en datos, pudimos definir seis categorías: Formación, Enfoques comunicacionales, Sostenibilidad, Anuncio, Valores y Relación con lo social; éstas fueron declinadas en subcategorías. Finalmente, integrando la información proveniente de los cuestionarios, con el análisis de las páginas Web, fue posible distinguir perfiles de medios de comunicación católicos. La investigación de De la Torre (2006) presenta perfiles de laicos en Guadalajara, que nos ofrecieron analogías para “leer” los medios de comunicación católicos, ya que ambos afrontan desafíos similares, en cuanto a la articulación entre las propias creencias y el diálogo con lo público. Se ratifica la continuidad de ese análisis con la clasificación utilizada en esta investigación, incorporando a los cinco perfiles propuestos por la autora, que son: 1) Brazo largo de la jerarquía, 2) Laico de la liberación, 3) Laico cívico y moral (más cívico que político), 4) Laico renovado en el espíritu y laico, 5) Laico con una espiritualidad abierta, en la calle, otros tres: 6) Cultural iluminista, 7) Tradicional y 8) de la propia espiritualidad." (Resumen)
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"Al-Gama’a [The Society], a 28-part television biopic of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Banna, was broadcast in the fall of 2010, just before the January 25, 2011 Revolution. The writer of the series, Wahid Hamid, was an important screenwriter for both television and the cinema and a figure k
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nown for his affinity with the state’s security apparatus. Al-Gama’a functioned as a rhetorical capstone for decades of anti-Brotherhood state discourse. It also powerfully anticipated the anti-Brotherhood apologetics used to rationalize the Rab‘a massacre of 2013, which effectively ended the revolution and cemented the coup by ‘Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi against Muhammad Morsy. The series enacted a historical narrative that was almost completely absent from Egypt’s formal educational curriculum, thereby furthering a political agenda of dehumanizing Islamists and effectively excommunicating them from the national community. Hence in 2013, a thousand Egyptians were slaughtered in a day, and yet many of their fellow citizens saw the event as destiny rather than as a crime against humanity." (Abtract)
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"Religious matters are much more present in standard media coverage than many people think. This paper discusses eight of the most relevant issues and events about the Catholic Church that made news headlines in 2018. The highlights, listed in chronological order, are: Pope Francis’ January trip t
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o Chile and Peru; the fifth anniversary in March of the election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio as pope; the release of Wim Wenders’ documentary film Pope Francis - A Man of His Word; Pope Francis’ August trip to the World Meeting of Families in Dublin, Ireland; the global clergy sexual abuse crisis and the Viganò affair; the agreement between the Holy See and China on appointment of bishops in September; the canonization of Archbishop Romero and Pope Paul VI in Rome in October; and the Synod of Bishops on Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment also in October. The selection is inevitably subjective, but the author has chosen these topics mainly because they received substantial coverage from international mainstream media." (Abstract)
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"La complejidad de la comunicación en una organización tan diversa y con tantos ‘portavoces’ como la Iglesia Católica resulta fascinante para los investigadores. El ‘valor mediático’ de los tres últimos pontífices ha ayudado a difundir las ideas de la Iglesia Católica a través de los
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medios de un modo que no tiene precedentes. Los pontificados de Benedicto XVI y Francisco han profundizado, cada uno con acentos propios, en el legado mediático de Juan Pablo II: el crecimiento de la estatura mediática de los papas es quizá una de las grandes historias de la comunicación y los medios a finales del siglo XX y comienzos del XXI. Con la herencia de San Juan Pablo II como punto de partida, se realiza una síntesis de hitos comunicativos relevantes de los pontificados de Benedicto y Francisco en la última década, se plantean ‘patologías’ que pueden acechar a la comunicación de instituciones globales tan complejas como la Iglesia Católica y se proponen recomendaciones para paliarlas." (Resumen)
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"Papal visits to different countries are very important to bring about closeness between the Church and the people. To assure the effectiveness of a visit, it is essential to have a well-planned broadcast of the event. The broadcast will transmit the message to the audience and move it beyond time a
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nd space, transforming a local homily into a universal message. The experience of organizing the broadcast of a visit can be used as a road map to futures visits; this work may help to plan a broadcast from scratch and understand the essential role TV has on today’s apostolic trips. A good broadcast strategy will facilitate the relationship with the media and make it easier to generate content and news with the provided feeds." (Abstract)
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"Siguiendo la propuesta de la Red Eclesial Panamazónica (REPAM), el documento se estructura en base a las tres conversiones a las que nos invita el papa Francisco: Conversión pastoral que nos llama en la Exhortación Apostólica Evangelii Gadium, ver y escuchar. Conversión Ecológica que orienta
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el rumbo en la Encíclica Laudato Sì, juzgar y actuar. Conversión a la Sinodalidad Eclesial que estructura el caminar en la Constitución Apostólica Episcopalis Communio, juzgar y actuar." (Página 3)
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"This report shines light on the following trends:
- Blasphemy and apostasy laws are often overbroad and can be used to limit a variety of religious expression. These laws violate international human rights law and should be repealed.
- Hate speech laws are also generally overbroad and can be used t
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o limit a variety of religious expression. These laws should be re-drafted to comply with international standards.
- Laws restricting the media and free press are often used to prohibit hate speech on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, and other factors, with the written intent to protect those individual identities; however, these laws are also often open to misuse for political purposes.
- Hate speech laws often lack independent oversight mechanisms and have inappropriate punishments.
- Hate speech laws often are not integrated into larger plans aimed at effectively reducing intolerance and hatred in society. Where speech is protected and therefore not able to be limited through legislation, states can use other strategies and tools to address problems of hate speech and discrimination against certain groups. Meaningful and inclusive partnership with civil society is key for governments to achieve these goals." (Executive summary)
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"Der ‚Christian Patriot. A Journal of Social and Religious Progress‘ existierte von 1890 bis 1929 und verstand sich als „Sprachrohr“ der indisch-protestantischen Gemeinschaft Südindiens. Das Blatt befand sich in „alleinigem“ Besitz indischer Christen. Als solches eröffnet es ganz neue
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Perspektiven auf die indische und globale Christentumsgeschichte. Das Journal grenzte sich sowohl vom Paternalismus der euroamerikanischen Missionare wie von hindu-fundamentalistischen Tendenzen in der indischen Nationalbewegung ab. Dabei war es bestrebt, der Stimme indischer Christen als eigenständiger Größe in der kolonialen Öffentlichkeit des Landes Gehör zu verschaffen. Zugleich werden im Spiegel des ‚Christian Patriot‘ transregionale Netzwerke indigen-christlicher Eliten in Asien und anderen Regionen und Kolonialgesellschaften sichtbar. Diese tragen zu einem neuen Verständnis christlicher Globalität um 1910 bei." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Incidents of blasphemy and religious defamation occur around the world, often provoking angry, and sometimes violent reactions from religious adherents. However, laws prohibiting blasphemy and religious defamation are heavily criticised as being against freedom of speech, despite their effect on ra
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ce relations. This article highlights the position of blasphemy and religious defamation according to International Law, and presents counterarguments of the main objections to such laws. It also highlights the issue from the Islamic perspective, and offers an alternative approach to interpreting human rights. This article concludes by explaining the need for human rights and free speech to be interpreted according to common moral and religious values, and emphasising the purpose of human rights and free speech—which should be for the attainment of justice." (Abstract)
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"While Pope Benedict XV's "Maximum illud" addresses particularly mission, the encyclical can be read also from a communication and media perspective. Such a reading offers many insights into the communicative engagement. The author further expands on the enyclical's resonances in Roman documents on
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communication throughout the 20th century." (Abstract)
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"Radio Veritas Asia-Myanmar Service (RVA-MS) had been broadcasting socio-political and religious programming in Shortwave (SW) since November 11, 1978. However, on 30 June 2018, RVA stopped broadcasting in SW and migrated to the internet-based multiplatform broadcasting along with the use of Social
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media. Based on the researcher’s experiences working in RVA-MS, personal observations and the country’s recent developments, this study tries to find out differences between SW and online broadcast, challenges in migrating from SW technology to that of online and its consequences, and future perspectives of this present development i.e., online-based multiplatform broadcast both using websites and social media. Both experiences in SW and Online of RVA as a producer, and data analysis from personal interviews of selected cyber missionaries show that engaging in online ministry in Myanmar is found to be positive and favorable in many ways especially young people and creating a new group of participants. This study determines future online communication ministry of the Myanmar Church and to integrate to an “Online Church” through collaboration and communication by realizing the individual online/cyber missionaries, media professionals and allocating the resources." (Abstract)
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"Conspiracy theories have infiltrated increasingly larger areas of cultural and political life. Conspiracism seems to replace or supplement fundamentalist religious beliefs while also supplying material that is, in turn, used for endorsing political and ideological agendas. Similarities between cons
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piratorial thinking and fundamentalist creed can be explained by examining the dynamics of inferiority of consciousness and the subsequent inflation of the ego by the “contents” of the unconscious. Inadequate and noncredible representations of numinous energies in consciousness unwittingly contribute to the creation of structures with notable mythological parallels. Jung referred to this phenomenon as an “axiom of psychology,” which can explain both the archetypal nature of conspiracism and its resistance to rational correction. Thinking is free from the unconscious influence of the Self only to the extent that it is able to recognize and to relate to numinous contents, on one hand, and to withdraw projections from the object, on the other. A symbolic perspective offers a nondismissive understanding of the reasons for strong adherence to conspiracy theories. Exploring conspiracy theories as symbols rather than rational constructs offers more fruitful solutions to our current social problems." (Abstract)
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