"A cada ano as igrejas neopentecostais ocupam mais espaço na programação televisiva nacional. A IURD (Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus), que iniciou suas atividades em 1977, fez escola e é considerada como uma instituição religiosa-modelo pelas igrejas dessa corrente religiosa no que se refer
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e à exploração do espaço televisivo para a adesão de fiéis. Neste texto, o autor analisa um programa televisivo desta igreja, revelando o alto grau de profissionalismo na construção de discurso e na utilização dos recursos audiovisuais da televisão." (Resumo)
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"Media involve religious dimensions and have become the religious "iconofiers" of our world. People increasingly use media for shaping their - religious - identity and their search with respect to questions of ultimate meaning. The author first provides a succinct overview of the context and implica
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tions of media culture and the recent changes in communication theory. Then, by analyzing the contents of a broad range of Church documents from the Catholic as well as the Protestant Churches and Ecumenical Organizations, she reflects on Christian policy views and identifies the main problems and opportunities in relating to media culture. Finally she stresses the urgency of genuine "art of dialogue" between Christian religion and media culture, based on a thorough analysis of the trends of the global media context as well as recent insights from audience research. She also argues a theological paradigm shift and the importance of ethical involvement by religions in the public sphere. This is a thoroughly researched, major contribution to religious commmunication theory." (CAMECO Update 4-2008)
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"Wer sich heute auf eine Reise in die malaiische Welt (Indonesien, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam) begibt, wird beobachten, dass sich das Angebot in den Buchhandlungen von Land zu Land zum Teil erheblich unterscheidet. In Indonesien etwa, das mit seinen zur Zeit etwa 230 Millionen Einwohnern fast 90% d
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er malaiischen Welt ausmacht, scheinen Bücher mit islamischen Themen besonders populär zu sein."
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"Dieses Handbuch bietet in 69 abgeschlossenen Artikeln eine umfassende Einführung in alle Grundbegriffe, Phänomene, Handlungsvollzüge und Diskurse der Praktischen Theologie. Die Beiträge führen die interdisziplinäre, religions- und kulturhermeneutische Ausrichtung der gegenwärtigen Praktische
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n Theologie aus. Sie sind verfasst von führenden Vertretern und Vertreterinnen aus den verschiedenen theologischen Disziplinen sowie der Philosophie, Pädagogik, Soziologie und Psychologie. Das Handbuch wendet sich an die an den theologischen und religiösen Gegenwartsfragen interessierte akademische und nicht-akademische Öffentlichkeit. Für Forschung, Lehre und Studium bietet es eine Einführung in und Orientierung über die zentralen Themen der Praktischen Theologie und über den gegenwärtigen Stand der Theoriebildung in allen ihren Teildisziplinen. Den in Kirche, Schule, Medien, Diakonie und Verwaltung professionell Tätigen erschließt es die Praktische Theologie als Schlüssel für das Verständnis religiöser Phänomene der Gegenwart und gibt Orientierung in den Grundvollzügen religiöser Praxis in der Kirche, der Schule und vielen weiteren Bereichen der Gesellschaft." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"Some recommendations can be made to Radio Progress and its community. The station seems to provide the Upper West people with what they needed – a voice to make themselves heard and to communicate with each other. Since the research showed that most limitations are due to the restraints in financ
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ial stability some stronger effort to receive funding would be advisable. Without undermining the non-profit character, Radio Progress could put more emphasise on some fundraising activities. More financial flexibility could solve most of the limitations the station is facing. Furthermore, the station board should pay more attention to a stable coordination of the station. The formerly absent and recently not existing coordination might bear negative impact on the staff motivation. Moreover, this rather unorganised coordination possibly restricts a consequent performance and a stringent development of the programming as well as potential improvement strategies. Some advice can be addressed to the listening communities. The research showed how vital the listeners handle information and educative input they receive through the station and as such also from other villages. By internal clustering of information and output through internal reflection they could even intensify the mutual learning effect the programming offers. Communities could form a committee to which people can address their grievances, demands and ideas on a frequent basis and which could present these collected information to the station. Such an organised information collection and transfer could overcome a crucial obstacle to participate for many people - the restriction to call or visit the station on their own." (Recommendations, page 98)
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"Investigating a vibrant audio-recording industry in southern Yemen, The Moral Resonance of Arab Media shows how new forms of political activism emerge through sensory engagements with Arabic poetry and song. From the 1940s onward, a new cadre of political activists has used audio-recording technolo
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gies, especially the audiocassette, to redefine traditional Muslim authorship. Cassette producers address conflicted views about the resurgence of tribalism by showing Yemenis how to adapt traditional mores toward more progressive and pluralistic aims. Skilled bards continue to perform orally marked tribal verse. As Miller demonstrates through an analysis of several centuries of changing media ecology, however, oral performance is anything but static. Much of the power of orality stems from its relation to writing, print, and audiovisual media that link tribal ideals with metropolitan and national discourses. Through an examination of the lives and works of individual poets, singers, and audiences, Moral Resonance shows how tribalism becomes a resource for critical reform when expressed in tropes of community, place, person, and history. Yemenis' use of audiocassettes turns such tropes into cultural resources for morally evaluating political liberalism." (Publisher description)
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"The term 'Social Communication' (lat. 'Communicatio Socialis') was coined at the Second Vatican Council. The decree Inter Mirifica (1963) uses this expression to point to the communication processes of and in human society beyond technical means. According to this Festschrift marking the 75th birth
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day of Franz-Josef Eilers SVD, Social Communication has been his lifelong Leitmotif. Eilers has been one of the most prominent writers on Church and intercultural communication. He founded and for many years edited the scholarly quarterly Communicatio Socialis, and he served as collaborator and director of CAMECO and the Office for Social Communication of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences. 15 international communication experts, from Catholic as well as ecumenical viewpoints, contributed to this book. The articles cover a broad range of issues, from practical experiences ('Radio Broadcasting in the Brazilian Amazon') to trend reports ('The rediscovery of religion by journalists in the Netherlands') and theological reflections ('The concept of dialogue and its ethical implications')." (CAMECO Update 2-2008)
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"From silent films to contemporary blockbusters, religion has always proved a popular theme for the cinema. However, all too often religion and film are discussed from narrowly confessional perspectives, with the result that the field has long been dominated by the question of a film's fidelity to a
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religious text or worldview, or its value as a tool in ministry and mission. 'Religion and Film: An Introduction' seeks to redress this balance, and argues for a new, holistic approach to the subject that draws on work from cultural studies, religious studies and film studies alike." (Publisher description)
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