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De "pároco de aldeia" a macroinfluenciador digital: Um estudo de caso sobre influência digital religiosa
Ciências Sociais e Religião (Campinas), volume 26, issue e024012 (2024), 32 pp.
"Neste texto, analisaremos o caso de Patrick Fernandes, um presbítero católico brasileiro que, em poucos meses ao longo de 2021, passou de poucos milhares para milhões de seguidores em sua conta no Instagram. Faremos isso a partir da noção de influência digital religiosa, entendida aqui como a
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Redes sociais evangélicas e música gospel no Brasil: Questões raciais nas margens do mundo religioso
Ciências Sociais e Religião (Campinas), volume 26, issue e024011 (2024), 31 pp.
"Nas últimas décadas, a utilização das mídias por igrejas evangélicas brasileiras se intensificou com a disseminação das redes sociais na internet. Viu-se também uma ampliação do mercado de bens culturais religiosos, sobretudo na área da música. Se essas múltiplas mediações comunicac
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Commodification of Spirituality and the Spiritual Healers’ Labor on Facebook
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 1405-1425
"Facebook is home to a plethora of spiritual healers who use the social media platform for giving advice, selling products, and offering their services. In this ethnographic study, we examine the Facebook endeavors of Estonian spiritual healers. The study discusses the different forms of commodified
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A Dalit religion online: Clashing sensoryscapes and remote ethnographies behind the screen
Dialectical Anthropology, volume 48 (2024), pp. 83-112
"A Bengali Dalit religion called Matua emerged in the nineteenth century in East Bengal. It counts tens of millions of followers across the Bay of Bengal and the Indo–Bangladesh border. With the COVID-19 pandemic, Matua religious gatherings were shifted online. This paper asks what happened to mul
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The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion
Top Insights
New York: Oxford University Press (2024), xiii, 661 pp.
"Digital Religion refers to the contemporary practice and understanding that religion takes place in both online and offline contexts, and how these contexts intersect with each other. Scholars in this growing field of Digital Religion studies recognize that religion has been influenced by its engag
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Vernetzt und zugewandt - digitale Gemeinde gestalten: Ein Praxishandbuch
Key Guidance
Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag (2024), 220 pp.
"Die Lebenswelt der meisten Menschen ist digital, viele Gemeinden sind es dagegen noch nicht. Nicht nur bei sinkenden Mitglieder- und Gottesdienstbesucherzahlen wird es höchste Zeit, Wege zu finden, um relevant zu bleiben. Auch darüber hinaus bieten digitale Angebote viel Mehrwert für ein lebendi
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Evangelização On-Line
São Paulo: Paulus (2024), 100 pp.
"Compêndio de reflexões sobre a realidade na qual a Igreja de Jesus está inserida, permeada e influenciada pela velocidade dos meios sociais, para pensar a Igreja e sua relação com o mundo digital, sobretudo a dimensão tênue que tangencia o virtual e o real, dedicando relevância às influên
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Religión y pandemia: Rumores y narrativas conspiracionistas en Facebook
Ciências Sociais e Religião (Campinas), volume 26, issue e024006 (2024), 32 pp.
"Este artigo apresenta os resultados de uma investigação sobre os rumores e as narrativas conspiratórias que circularam em 2020 sobre a pandemia em duas páginas do Facebook pertencentes a dois grupos religiosos: um evangélico e outro católico. Nos afastamos da visão que desqualifica os rumore
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Towards Full Presence: A Pastoral Reflection on Engagement with Social Media
Vatican City: Dicastery for Communication (2023), 34 pp.
"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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Religion auf Instagram: Analysen und Perspektiven
Freiburg et al.: Herder (2023), 390 pp.
"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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CoronAsur: Asian Religions in the Covidian Age
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press (2023), xiii, 345 pp.
"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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Infopastoral: O Agir Pastoral Numa Sociedade Em Transformação
São Paulo: Paulus (2023), 128 pp.
"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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Thinking Tools on AI, Religion and Culture
Digital Religion Publications;Network for New Media, Religion & Digital Culture Studies (2023), 57 pp.
Hacia una plena presencia: Reflexión pastoral sobre la interacción en las Redes Sociales
Ciudad del Vaticano: Dicasterio para la Communicación (2023), 36 pp.
"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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Rumo à presença plena: Uma reflexão pastoral sobre a participação nas redes sociais
Cidade do Vaticano: Dicastério para a Communicação (2023), 36 pp.
"As seguintes páginas representam o resultado de uma reflexão que envolveu especialistas, professores, jovens profissionais e líderes, leigos, clérigos e religiosos. O objetivo consiste em abordar algumas das principais questões sobre o modo como os cristãos deveriam participar nas redes socia
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Digitale Seelsorge: Impulse für die Praxis
Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (2023), 188 pp.
"Die Nachfrage nach Seelsorge und Beratung im Internet ist schon jetzt enorm. In Zukunft wird der Bedarf weiter steigen und auch Kirchengemeinden vor Ort werden sich darauf einstellen müssen. Wie funktioniert aber eine Seelsorge im digitalen Raum, die nur schriftlich Informationen austauscht, an de
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Social Media Utilization, Perceptions and Experience Among Vowed Religious Men and Women in the Catholic Archdiocese of Nairobi, Kenya
Nairobi: Daystar University, Master Thesis (2023), xii, 112 pp.
"The main objectives of the study were: to assess the perceptions of vowed religious people towards social media; to explore the uses to which vowed religious people put social media; to find out the experiences of vowed religious people regarding their social media utilization. The study employed m
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Using YouTube as a Digital Pulpit. The Most Influential Catholic Youtubers in Spanish Speaking Countries: Who They Are and How They Communicate
Church, Communication and Culture, volume 8, issue 1 (2023), pp. 59-83
"The Internet and social networks have enabled the appearance of new Catholic preachers with intense activity and a high number of followers on their channels. YouTube has been no exception to this communication trend. Some of the religious communicators who use this social network have in fact beco
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The Pop Theology of Videogames: Producing and Playing with Religion
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2023), 158 pp.
"Young people in the West are more likely to encounter religion in videogames than in places of worship like churches, mosques or temples. Lars de Wildt interviews developers and players of games such as Assassin’s Creed to find out how and why the Pop Theology of Videogames is so appealing to mod
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Fictional Practices of Spirituality I: Interactive Media
Bielefeld: transcript (2023), 476 pp.
"Fictional Practices of Spirituality" provides critical insight into the implementation of belief, mysticism, religion, and spirituality into worlds of fiction, be it interactive or non-interactive. This first volume focuses on interactive, virtual worlds - may that be the digital realms of video ga
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