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Religião, democracia e a extrema direita

Ana Paula Miranda, Camila Rocha, Esther Solano et al.

Rio de Janeiro: Heinrich Böll Stiftung (2023), 79 pp.

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The Federal Government’s Third Report on the Global Status of Freedom of Religion or Belief. Reporting period 2020–2022
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Bonn; Berlin: Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ);Federal Government Commissioner for Freedom of Religion or Belief (2023), 207 pp.

"Freedom of religion or belief is an essential human right. Not a superordinate right, but not a marginal right either. It is closely intertwined with other rights such as freedom of opinion or assembly, or the right to be protected against discrimination. And that is the objective of my efforts: to ... embed this right firmly at the centre of the human rights agenda. There is still a long way to go to achieve this [...] This report is about advancing the debate and it also enters new territory. It builds on the work done by my predecessor, Markus Grübel, but there are also some aspects where the report has been developed further. This is also reflected in the number of focus countries, which has been increased from 30 to 41. The German Parliament, the Bundestag, had asked for the country section to be expanded, and we were happy to comply with that request. Enlarging the range of countries covered by the report provides an opportunity to do two things at once: offer a regular report on developments in individual regions, and expand the focus in the light of new challenges. Among the focus countries that have been added this year are Armenia, Belarus, Guatemala, the Central African Republic, Lebanon, the Maldives and Syria. For some of them, the decision to add them was taken in the light of recent developments. With these aims in mind, the report will continue to be submitted at regular intervals as intended by the Bundestag, building on a solid basis of data and information. The report explores new ground above all with its thematic focus on the freedom of religion or belief of Indigenous peoples. There are about 5,000 such groups of people worldwide, with an estimated total population of more than 470 million. With this focus our report ties in with a report by the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, developing the topic further. In the process of drafting the report, I realised that we are doing pioneering work, because there was and still is the belief that Indigenous spirituality has nothing to do with freedom of religion or belief. The report provides an opportunity to look in a different way at conflicts over land and infrastructure that involve Indigenous communities. And to develop an understanding that often such conflicts are not just about resources but in fact have to do with Indigenous peoples’ belief that all natural things have a spirit or soul. My personal learning curve on this topic is closely connected with Indigenous communities in Guatemala and my experiences with conflictual infrastructure projects. When I visited Guatemala many years ago, I had difficulty understanding why people staged fierce and violent protests against small-scale hydropower plants that were actually environmentally friendly. Today I know that the areas surrounding a small river were regarded as important spiritual places, with Indigenous communities believing that the forest had a soul, and that interfering with nature there without giving any thought to the spiritual implications was not acceptable." (Preface, page 2) more

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Fronteras, misión y cultura digital en la Iglesia desde la perspectiva sinodal

Germán Rey

Medellín, volume 49, issue 187 (2023), pp. 335-352

"La aparición de los contenidos referidos a la cultura digital en el texto recientemente aprobado por la Asamblea Sinodal (2023), es un verdadero acontecimiento. Y lo es por varias razones: en primer lugar, porque contiene asuntos fundamentales que conciernen al desarrollo de la cultura digital que ... more

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Information Challenges of the Second Vatican Council and the Development of the Institutional Communication of the Holy See

José Maria Díaz-Dorronsoro

Church, Communication and Culture, volume 8, issue 1 (2023), pp. 84-103

"From the point of view of institutional communication, the Second Vatican Council can be considered the most significant media event of the 20th century organized by an institution. This was so because of its duration, impact on millions of people, and the media interest it generated. For the Catho ... more

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The Representation of Rural Christianity in the Films of Gan Xiao’er

Jing Li

Journal for Religion, Film and Media (JRFM), volume 9, issue 2 (2023), pp. 101-125

"The religious dimension of Chinese cinema is, it has been observed, a "triple lacuna" in contemporary scholarship: in research on religion in China, in research on Chinese cinema, and in interdisciplinary research on film and religion. From 2002 to 2012, independent filmmaker Gan Xiao'er directed t ... more

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The Tamil Language as More Central than Even the Gods: The Movie THIRUVILAYADAL (IN 1965) Is an Outlier as a Devotional Film

Sreeram Gopalkrishnan, Lekshmi Sreeram

Journal for Religion, Film and Media (JRFM), volume 9, issue 2 (2023), pp. 127-142

"The narrow genre of devotional films in India follows a regular template – a combination of theophanic interventions, bhakti (devotional) worship and didactic narratives. Thiruvilayadal (The Divine Play, Akkamappettai Paramasivan Nagarajan, 1965), a film in Tamil (a language spoken across South a ... more

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Sin and Divine Punishment: The Korean Series JIOK (HELLBOUND, KR 2021–), New Religious Movements, and a World Full of Guilt

Franz Winter

Journal for Religion, Film and Media (JRFM), volume 9, issue 2 (2023), pp. 87-99

"The TV series Jiok (Yon Sang-ho, 2021-), internationally known as Hellbound, is a recent and highly successful series that has been available on the streaming platform Netflix since November 2021. It is usually described as a "dark mystery thriller" or "dark fantasy film", which points to the gener ... more

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Walking with young people in our digital culture

Salesians, Social Communication Sector (2023), 15 pp.

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Papa Francisco e o pensamento decolonial: Uma voz do Sul do mundo

Maria Kofferman

Teologia y Vida, volume 64, issue 3 (2023), pp. 299-320

"Este artículo estudia el magisterio del papa Francisco en confrontación con el pensamiento decolonial latinoamericano. A partir de las bases epistemológicas que emergen del contexto latinoamericano, a través de pensadores como Educardo Restrepo, Axel Rojas, Erick Torrico Villanueva y Catherine ... more

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Measuring religion in China: Many Chinese adults practice religion or hold religious beliefs, but only 1 in 10 formally identify with a religion

Pew Research Center (2023), 160 pp.

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Unruly Speech: Displacement and the Politics of Transgression

Saskia Witteborn

Minneapolis: Stanford University Press (2023), 252 pp.

"Unruly Speech explores how Uyghurs in China and in the diaspora transgress sociopolitical limits with "unruly" communication practices in a quest for change. Drawing on research in China, the United States, and Germany, Saskia Witteborn situates her study against the backdrop of displacement and sh ... more

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“There is Hope for a Different Way of Communicating. We Just Need the Courage to Dream It”: Dr. Paolo Ruffini at the SIGNIS Board of Directors Meeting in Bangkok

Paolo Ruffini

Signis (2023)

"From November 25th to the 28th, the capital of Thailand, Bangkok, welcomed the members ofthe SIGNIS Board of Directors who met for the first time in person since they were nominated. The meeting was an important moment to share the latest updates from the different SIGNIS regions around the world a ... more

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Democracy Through the Spirit: The Universal Church and its Interconnections with Brazilian Democracy

Alana Sá Leitão

Horizontes Antropológicos, volume 29, issue 65, e650402 (2023), 32 pp.

"The connection between Evangelical church actors and contemporary Brazilian federal politics has raised many speculations, especially regarding the association of these churches with neoliberalism and populist governments. In a different manner, this article aims to show how churches from the third ... more

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Quels médias pour la paix? = Welche Medien für den Frieden?

Paris: L'Harmattan (2023), 124 pp.

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Islam and Me: Narrating a Diaspora

Shirin Ramzanali Fazel

Chicago: Rutgers University Press (2023), 205 pp.

"Growing up in Mogadishu, Somalia, Shirin Ramzanali Fazel was immersed in the language and culture of Italy, Somalia's former colonizer. Yet when she moved to Italy as a young mother in the 1970s, she discovered a country where immigrants and Muslims were viewed with a mixture of curiosity and suspi ... more

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What it Takes to be Religious: Religion Online Vs. Online Religion

Filiz Çömez-Polat, Göklem Tekdemir

Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, volume 16, issue 2 (2023), pp. 161-179

"This study aims to examine how active users of social media in relation to their religious values and commitments evaluate the construction and byproducts of religion online. The results show that there are three main repertoires related to the use of social media and religiosity in Turkey: religio ... more

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Análisis de la Imagen Corporativa de los públicos externos (Fuerzas Militares y Policías) sobre el Obispado Castrense de Colombia

Laura Daniela Giraldo Guevara

Bogotá: Universidad de La Sabana, Master Thesis (2023), 111 pp.

"El análisis de la imagen corporativa de los militares y policías sobre el Obispado Castrense, revela áreas de oportunidad significativas en cuanto a la imagen comercial, la imagen pública y el contenido de valor en las redes sociales y la página web. Estos hallazgos indican que hay margen para ... more

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Vers une présence totale: Une réflexion pastorale à propos de l’engagement sur les réseaux sociaux

Cité du Vatican: Dicastère pour la Communication (2023), 36 pp.

"Les pages qui suivent sont le fruit d’une réflexion impliquant des experts, des enseignants, des jeunes professionnels et leaders, des laïcs, des membres du clergé et des religieux. L’objectif est d’aborder certaines des principales questions concernant la manière dont les chrétiens devr ... more

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Digital Authoritarianism and its Religious Legitimization: The cases of Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, and India

Ihsan Yilmaz (ed.)

Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xv, 174 pp.

"This book explores how digital authoritarianism operates in India, Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia, and Malaysia, and how religion can be used to legitimize digital authoritarianism within democracies. In doing so, it explains how digital authoritarianism operates at various technological levels includ ... more

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Comunicação da Igreja Católica na América Latina

Ricardo Alvarenga

São Paulo: Paulus (2023), 134 pp.

"O livro nasce de um processo de estudos e pesquisas de mais de quatro anos sobre o tema da comunicação da e na Igreja católica na América Latina e no Caribe. A obra é fruto do esforço compreensivo de entender como o catolicismo, nesta parte do globo, tratou a temática da comunicação, e de ... more

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