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"We have surveyed the history of the study of new media and religion, identified heuristic perspectives helpful in organizing current scholarship, and appraised methodologies employed in the study. The study of new media and religion has evolved from extreme utopian/dystopian discourses to a better ... more

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The Use of the Internet by Islamic Social Movements in Collective Action: The Case of 'Justice and Charity'

Mohamed Ben Moussa

Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 8, issue 2 (2011), pp. 63-91

"The article addresses the use of the internet by Islamic social movement organizations (SMOs), focusing on the case of Justice and Charity (JC), the biggest opposition political group in Morocco. It examines the extent to which the SMO exploits the potential of the medium in collective action, and ... more

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WACC Strategic Plan 2012-2016

Toronto: World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) (2011), 32 pp.

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Virtualität und Inszenierung: Themenschwerpunkt zum medienethischen Impulspapier der Publizistischen Kommission der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz

Communicatio Socialis, volume 44, issue 4 (2011), pp. 395-461

"Vor dem Hintergrund der digitalen Medienentwicklung hat die Publizistische Kommission der Deutschen Bischofskonferenz unter Vorsitz von Bischof Gebhard Fürst in ihrer Sitzung am 17. und 18. Oktober 2007 beschlossen, ein medienethisches Impulspapier zu den Herausforderungen der digitalen Medienwelt ... more

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Manual de apoyo a la gestión pastoral

Gabriel Valdivieso R., Carmen Silva D.

Santiago de Chile: Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Centro de Investigaciones Socioculturales (CISOC) (2011), 86 pp.

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Evangelizar es comunicar

Asunción: Conferencia Episcopal Paraguaya, Pastoral de la Comunicación (2011), 22 pp.

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Mutirão de Cultura América Latina e Caribe. Fevereiro 2010, PUCRS, Brasil

Henrique de Freitas Lima (ed.)

Porto Alegre: Conferencia Episcopal Latinoamericana (CELAM);Conferência Nacional dos Bispos do Brasil (CNBB);OCLACC (2011), 235 pp.

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Virtualität und Inszenierung: Unterwegs in der digitalen Mediengesellschaft. Ein medienethisches Impulspapier

Bonn: Deutsche Bischofskonferenz (2011), 88 pp.

"Unsere Gesellschaft befindet sich seit einiger Zeit in einem großen Umbruch. Ein wichtiger Motor der Veränderungen sind die Medien. Die technische Entwicklung hat zu einem Medienwandel geführt. Der Wandel hat weit reichende Folgen, gerade auch für das soziale Gefüge. Die Aufspaltung in viele K ... more

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Fr Francis Mihalic and Wantok Niuspepa in Papua New Guinea

Philip Cass

Pacific Journalism Review, volume 17, issue 1 (2011), pp. 210-226

"Papua New Guinea’s Tok Pisin language newspaper Wantok, founded in 1969, is one of the publishing icons of the South Pacific. Drawing on interviews with Fr Francis Mihalic and Bishop Leo Arkfeld made in the early 1990s, a manuscript history of the early days of the Wantok, written by Mihalic, and ... more

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Pilgrimage Phenomenon in the New Context of Post-Communist Romanian Media

Mihaela-Simona Apostol

ESSACHESS: Journal for Communication Studies, volume 4, issue 8 (2011), pp. 127-143

"Twenty years after the fall of communism in Romania, there are two main pilgrimages that dominate the Orthodox religious environment: the pilgrimage to Saint Parascheva of Iasi and the pilgrimage to Saint Dumitru cel Nou, Basarabov in Bucharest. These two pilgrimages are practiced in old sacred cen ... more

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The Trans-Saharan Book Trade: Manuscript Culture, Arabic Literacy and Intellectual History in Muslim Africa

Graziano Krätli, Ghislaine Lydon (eds.)

Leiden; Boston: Brill (2011), xii, 422 pp.

"As the manuscript treasures in the libraries of Timbuktu and throughout the northwestern quarter of Africa become known, many questions are raised. How did a manuscript culture flourish in the Sahara and in Muslim Africa more generally? Under what conditions did African intellectuals thrive, and ho ... more

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The Impact of the Expansion of the Religious Media in Contemporary Cuba

Margaret Crahan

In: Cuba Futures: Politics and Civil Society in Contemporary Cuba

Mauricio Font (ed.)

Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies (2011), pp. 187-202

"The religious media in Cuba currently provide the most substantial alternative to the official media, other than academic and cultural publications such as TEMAS and those of the universities and research centers. Given that the academic and cultural publications are published by institutions techn ... more

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Towards Renewed Pastoral Communication Strategies for the Church in Myanmar in View of Radio Veritas Asia

Gabriel Htun Myint

Manila: University of Santo Tomas, Faculty of Sacred Theology, Master Thesis (2011), 259 pp.

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‘Paroles De Vie’: Christian Radio Producers in the Republic of Benin

Tilo Grätz

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 3, issue 2 (2011), pp. 161-188

"In the Republic of Benin, we are currently witnessing an enormous proliferation of religious radio broadcasting in various forms, especially with regard to Pentecostal churches. Apart from already established Christian broadcasters such as Radio Immaculée Conception, Radio Alléluia or Radio Maran ... more

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Roman Catholicism in Fantastic Film: Essays on Belief, Spectacle, Ritual and Imagery

Regina Hansen (ed.)

Jefferson, NC: McFarland (2011), ix, 294 pp.

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Medienstrategien ägyptischer Islamisten im Kontext von Demokratisierung

Carola Richter

Berlin: Frank & Timme (2011), 349 pp.

"Die Umbrüche in Ägypten 2011 haben gezeigt, dass Medien eine wesentliche Rolle für die Mobilisierung politischer Partizipation spielen. Die Muslimbruderschaft, einer der wichtigsten gesellschaftlichen Akteure Ägyptens, hat seit 2002 gezielt auf Internetmedien gesetzt, um das Regime Mubaraks her ... more