"Animated documentaries dealing with the Holocaust, Holocaust survivors, and their descendants constitute a new phenomenon and inaugurate a new field of Holocaust commemoration. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of animated Holocaust documentaries. It explores movies produced in the USA,
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Canada, Australia, Europe, and Israel. Based on theories developed in the fields of animated documentary, Holocaust studies, cinema studies, trauma studies, and memory studies, this volume discusses the ways in which animated Holocaust documentaries create a new layer of Holocaust microhistory, their advantages, and their disadvantages. It shows how these movies visualize subject matter that previously eluded live-action documentaries such as the unfilmed past and people’s inner worlds. The book shows that Holocaust animated documentaries also have specific shortcomings and have generated a new set of problems relating to Holocaust memory and representation. For example, the vast majority marginalize the horrors and instead focus on bravery, resilience, and hope." (Publisher description)
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"The study seeks to understand consumers’ and decisionmakers’ perspectives on how current entertainment media treats themes of faith, religion and spirituality in its narratives and characters, if there is a market for more accurate and diverse representation of faith, and what opportunities exi
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st for improving these portrayals. HarrisX surveyed nearly 10,000 entertainment consumers across 11 countries as well as 30 in-depth interviews with entertainment industry leaders. Consumers say they learn about other religions through entertainment and see the potential for faith-inclusive content to create understanding and dialogue in society. Yet, respondents share that when they see their religion or faith - and others - included in mainstream entertainment, they feel it’s often sensationalized or that the portrayal leans on stereotypes. Similarly, entertainment industry professionals also highlighted an opportunity to reach and connect with an underserved audience. They noted that producing this content not only represents a good business opportunity, but also provides the opportunity to demystify what consumers know about other faiths and create understanding between people of different belief systems." (Introduction)
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"Un ámbito privilegiado para comprender la relación entre la Iglesia y los medios de comunicación son los mensajes para la Jornada Mundial de las Comunicaciones Sociales que los papas de la Iglesia católica, desde San Pablo VI hasta Francisco, han escrito en torno a la celebración de esa jornad
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a. El primero de los mensajes se publicó el 7 de mayo de 1967, y llevó por título: «Los medios de comunicación social». El último, el más reciente, ha sido publicado en enero de 2023, bajo el título «Hablar con el corazón, “en la verdad y en el amor”» (Ef 4, 15). De manera ininterrumpida, en los últimos cincuenta y siete años, se ha publicado este mensaje. Su extensión en el tiempo nos va a ofrecer una visión continuada, constante y progresiva del magisterio papal en relación a los medios de comunicación. Este periodo, desde el concilio Vaticano II hasta nuestros días, es fundamental para la historia de la Iglesia. Y sin embargo, el análisis que existe en relación a los mensajes para la JMCS es parcial y escaso. Es por ello que este estudio, inédito hasta el momento, abordará de manera íntegra este importante legado para la humanidad." (Descripción de la casa editorial)
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"Radio Waumini 88.3 FM is a project of Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops (KCCB). It was officially launched on 6th July 2003 by the late Vice President Michael Kijana Wamalwa. It is a Catholic radio at the service of the gospel, an instrument of evangelization and promotion of all initiatives and
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activities of the Catholic Church in Kenya. Radio Waumini is for all Kenyans and transmits its programmes in both English and Kiswahili, celebrating the rich diversity of contemporary Kenya - affirming all that is life - giving and striving to promote justice [...] During the twenty years of its existence, the radio has brought immense benefits and successes to the Church in the country [...] Through the radio, the listener's faith has been greatly enhanced. There has been awakening of the faith of the Catholic community within the reach of the radio programs. Testimonies of our listeners attest to this. As a result of its programs, the Catholic media network has increased with the launching of sister radio stations in most Catholic dioceses across the country. All these sister radios have had some of their presenters and managers trained at Radio Waumini." (The History of Radio Waumini, page 8)
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"A majority of communities in sub–Saharan Africa subscribe to religion which is part of the people’s way of life. At the center of religion are religious leaders whom communities trust and consult on various issues beyond faith and religion. By partnering with these revered figures and building
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their capacity to be champions for health we are able to impact the health of these communities in their day-to-day life."
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"Die grausamen Handlungen dschihadistischer Gruppierungen wie der „Al-Qaida“ oder des „Islamischen Staates“ schockieren und verbreiten Angst. Immer wieder scheinen neue Attentäter nachzurücken, ein Phänomen, das Asiem El Difraoui mit den stets nachwachsenden Köpfen einer Hydra vergleicht
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. Um sie zu bezwingen, müssten das Wesen des Dschihadismus und die Bedingungen seiner Verbreitung besser verstanden werden. El Difraoui versteht die Bewegung mit ihren Heilsversprechungen als Sekte, die ihre islamischen Ursprünge verzerre und missbrauche. Im Kampf gegen sie müssten die vielen Ursachen für das Wachstum dschihadistischer Gruppierungen angegangen werden: klandestine Netzwerke müssten enttarnt, die Propaganda eingedämmt sowie Prävention und Deradikalisierung weitergedacht werden. Zudem müssten westliche Staaten selbstkritischer mit den Folgen ihrer kolonialen Vergangenheit, den Diskriminierungserfahrungen von Minderheiten und den destabilisierenden Wirkungen ihrer militärischen Einsätze umgehen. El Difraoui fordert, weltweit soziale Gerechtigkeit, wirtschaftliche Perspektiven und funktionierende Zivilgesellschaften zu unterstützen. So würden junge, nach Sinn suchende Menschen resilienter gegen radikale Verführungen." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Divided into five parts, the Handbook opens with a state-of-the-art overview of the subject’s intellectual landscape, introducing the historical background, theoretical foundations, and major academic approaches to communication, media, and religion. Subsequent sections focus on institutional and
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functional perspectives, theological and cultural approaches, and new approaches in digital technologies. The essays provide insight into a wide range of topics, including religious use of media, religious identity, audience gratification, religious broadcasting, religious content in entertainment, films and religion, news reporting about religion, race and gender, the sex-religion matrix, religious crisis communication, public relations and advertising, televangelism, pastoral ministry, death and the media, online religion, future directions in religious communication, and more." (Publisher description)
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"The following pages are the result of a reflection involving experts, teachers, young professionals and leaders, lay persons, clergy, and religious. The aim is to address some of the main questions involving how Christians should engage social media. They are not meant to be precise “guidelines
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for pastoral ministry in this area. The hope, instead, is to promote a common reflection about our digital experiences, encouraging both individuals and communities to take a creative and constructive approach that can foster a culture of neighbourliness. The challenge of fostering peaceful, meaningful, and caring relationships on social media prompts a discussion in academic and professional circles, as well as in ecclesial ones. What kind of humanity is reflected in our presence in digital environments? How much of our digital relationships is the fruit of deep and truthful communication, and how much is merely shaped by unquestioned opinions and passionate reactions? How much of our faith finds living and refreshing digital expressions? And who is my “neighbour” on social media?" (Page 5)
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"Moving beyond a common visual concern within Religious Studies with art, aesthetic value, and perceptions of beauty or coherence, this volume shows how, when, and why images dare, shock, terrorize, confront, challenge, mock, shame, taunt, or offend, either intentionally or unintentionally, and as s
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uch lead to both confrontation and affective religious engagement. Exploring and experimenting with the relationship between text and image, the contributions draw attention simultaneously to the messiness of everyday life and to highly targeted, disruptive interventions that mark religious contestation in an era of escalating mobility and digital multiplicity. The volume thus illuminates an insight that has received little attention so far: provocation is among religion’s most significant mediations." (Publisher description)
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"Neben großen Themen wie Beauty, Kochen und Katzen haben sich wachsende Nischen für religiöse Kommunikation im digitalen Raum etabliert. Instagram, das heißt heute auch: gelebte Religion, Bibel, Spiritualität, Kirchenpolitik, Seelsorge und Bildung. Der Band gibt Einblick in die Entwicklung von
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Instagramkanälen, zeigt neue Formen der Gemeinschaftsbildung und behandelt religiöse Influencer. Er beleuchtet, wie authentisch erklingende Instagram-Stimmen von religiös und kulturell interessierten Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen wahrgenommen werden und zurückwirken auf die Wahrnehmung und Entwicklung von Kirchen und religiösen Gemeinschaften." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"This research is proposing a new approach for the faith-based media institutions in the creation and production of content. The solution proposed by this research is a text mining content analysis tool that uses data mining techniques including Association, Clustering and Classification in the disc
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overy of new content that is lying within the already existing text. These three combined with term frequency and inverse document frequency (TF-IDF) plus other machine learning techniques will be able to reveal different connections between different sets of data hence aiding the creation of new content for the media institution." (Abstract)
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"By the summer of 2020, when the coronavirus had fully entered our everyday vocabulary and our lives, religious communities and places of worship around the world were already undergoing profound changes. In Asian and Asian diaspora communities, diverse cultural tropes, beliefs, and artifacts were m
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obilized to make sense of Covid, including a repertoire of gods and demons like Coronasur, the virus depicted with the horns and fangs of a traditional Hindu demon. Various kinds of knowledge were invoked: theologies, indigenous medicines, and biomedical narratives, as well as ethical values and nationalist sentiments. CoronAsur: Asian Religions in the Covidian Age follows the documentation and analysis of the abrupt societal shifts triggered by the pandemic to understand current and future pandemic times, while revealing further avenues for research on religion that have opened up in the Covidian age. Developed in tandem with the research blog CoronAsur: Religion and COVID-19, this volume is a “phygital” publication, a work grounded in empirical roots as well as digitally born communication. It comprises thirty-eight essays that examine Asian religious communities—Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Daoist, and Christian as well as popular/folk and new religious movements, or NRMs—in terms of the changes brought on by and the ritual responses to the Covid pandemic." (Publisher description)
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"Anti-gender groups defend heteronormative and traditionalist views of family values and include both conservative Christian and far-right political actors. Moreover, these groups often rely on digital communication. Through a qualitative analysis of videos, tweets, and press releases produced durin
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g the World Congress of Families (WCF), an anti-gender event held in 2019 in the Italian city of Verona, this article discusses anti-gender movements’ digital communication as an example of online populism. The analysis suggests that the WCF used the Internet to enhance affective communications and connections among different religious and political actors. In particular, speakers at the event emotionally articulated antagonism between pro-family actors and those allegedly against family values, enacting the populist trope of “the people” against “the elites,” and also embedding anti-feminist, racist, and anti-migration discourses. The article shows how a focus on Christianity and digital hypermediated communication can better help to understand some characteristics of contemporary far-right populist politics." (Abstract)
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"A autora oferece aos comunicadores católicos uma nova proposta de evangelização e presença da Igreja no ambiente digital: a infopastoral, ou infopráxis, que nasce da convicção de que o povo de Deus precisa integrar a mensagem do Evangelho à cultura digital, na realidade da infosfera, e, ass
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im, cumprira missão de anunciar a Boa-nova a toda criatura, conforme o mandato de Cristo (cf. Mt 28,16-20). A infopastoral abarca os dois movimentos da pastoral enquanto ação da Igreja: o movimento para dentro (ad intra) e para fora (ad extra). O primeiro, quanto à relação e à promoção da comunidade eclesial, envolve os aspectos formativos de seus membros e comunicativos de suas atividades; e o segundo, quanto à Igreja em sua relação com o mundo em acelerada transformação, envolve sua ação profética na sociedade e em favor do ser humano integral. Para tanto, faz-se necessária uma conversão pastoral, uma mudança de paradigma e a capacidade de perceber os sinais dos tempos e as oportunidades que as novas tecnologias oferecem à fé cristã. O grande desafio é passar de uma visão instrumentalista da mídia para uma atuação pastoral nos meios." (Descrição da editora de livros)
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"Las siguientes páginas son el resultado de una reflexión en la que han participado expertos, educadores, jóvenes profesionales y líderes, laicos, sacerdotes y religiosos. Su objetivo es afrontar algunas de las principales cuestiones relativas al modo en que los cristianos deberían participar e
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n el mundo digital. No se proponen ser una guía precisa para el ministerio pastoral en esta área. Lo que se espera de ellas, en cambio, es que promuevan una reflexión común sobre nuestras experiencias digitales, animando a las personas y a las comunidades a adoptar un enfoque constructivo y creativo que fomente una cultura de amor al prójimo. El desafío de fomentar relaciones pacíficas, significativas y atentas a los demás en las redes sociales provoca discusiones en los círculos académicos, profesionales y eclesiales. ¿Qué tipo de humanidad se refleja en nuestra presencia en los ambientes digitales? ¿Cuánto en nuestras relaciones digitales es fruto de una comunicación profunda y sincera, y cuánto está meramente conformado por opiniones incuestionables y reacciones apasionadas? ¿Encuentra nuestra fe expresiones digitales vivas y frescas?¿Y quién es mi “prójimo” en las redes sociales?" (Página 5)
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