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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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Churches Online in Times of Corona. Die CONTOC-Studie: Empirische Einsichten, Interpretationen und Perspektiven
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2023), viii, 599 pp.
"Die CONTOC-Studie hat in ökumenischer und internationaler Ausrichtung die digitale kirchliche Praxis unter den Bedingungen der Corona-Pandemie im Frühsommer 2020 erforscht. Dieser Band dokumentiert die Rahmenbedingungen und Umfrageergebnisse in den beteiligten Ländern. Daran schließen sich Pers
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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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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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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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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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Tweeting for Religion: How Indonesian Islamic Fundamentalist Organizations Use Twitter
Journal of Media and Religion, volume 22, issue 1 (2023), pp. 1-16
"This study investigates how Islamic fundamentalists groups in Indonesia use Twitter to communicate with their stakeholders to achieve organizational goals. Based on previous work, three main functions of the use of social media by organizations were examined: spreading information, building and mai
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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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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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Alexa, Wie hast du's mit der Religion? Theologische Zugänge zu Technik und künstlicher Intelligenz
Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (wbg) (2023), 306 pp.
"Wie kann Theologie zu Technik und KI beitragen? Der Technikdiskurs ist aufgeladen mit religiösen Motiven, und Technologien wie Roboter fordern die Theologie, z. B. das Menschenbild, die Ethik und die religiöse Praxis, neu heraus. Der Sammelband erforscht aus theologischer Perspektive die drängen
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Fronteras, misión y cultura digital en la Iglesia desde la perspectiva sinodal
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
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Fictional Practices of Spirituality I: Interactive Media
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (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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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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Influenciadores digitais da fé: Celebridades ou evangelizadores?
Rumores, volume 16, issue 31 (2022), pp. 230-252
"Este trabalho apresenta uma reflexão inicial sobre o conceito de influenciadores digitais, considerando as perspectivas anteriores dos estudos de celebridades, com objetivo de propor novas dimensões para a análise desse fenômeno circunscrito no ambiente da fé. Buscando apreender os fenômenos
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La formazione dei catechisti nell’era del cyberspazio: Nuovi processi formativi per catechisti
Todi (IT): Tau Editrice (2022), 248 pp.
"L’avvento dell’era digitale ha interessato sempre più il settore di ricerca delle scienze della comunicazione con notevoli ricadute anche in campo catechetico. Questo libro prova a rispondere all’esigenza di formare una nuova figura di catechista chiamato ad interagire con i “soggetti digi
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Pastoral Communication in the Digital Age: Reality, Reflections and Response
Deep Insights
Signis (2022), 43 pp.
"In terms of the pastoral challenges presented by ICT, this paper demonstrates the need for the Church and her pastoral leaders to skillfully and wisely navigate the realm of technology in order to put this gift granted by God to the best use. This demands that pastoral leaders and faith communicato
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Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds
Deep Insights
Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2022), xii, 294 pp.
"This book offers a critical and systematic survey of the study of religion and digital media. It covers religious engagement with a wide range of digital media forms and highlights examples of new media engagement in all five of the major world religions. From mobile apps and video games to virtual
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Empathy: The Key to Handle Digital Communications Post-Pandemic
Religion and Social Communication, volume 20, issue 1 (2022), pp. 143-159
"This essay establishes the four phenomena that have characterized the pandemic and digital communications. This refers to infodemic, which is the abundance of information and difficulty to manage it; hypersensitivity, indicated in classifying actors as heroes and villains; the development of atypic
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