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Digital Afterlife: Death Matters in a Digital Age

Maggi Savin-Baden, Victoria Mason-Robbie (eds.)

Boca Raton; London; New York: CRC Press (2020), xv, 213 pp.

"The book covers a variety of matters that have been neglected in other research texts, for example: the legal, ethical, and philosophical conundrums of Digital Afterlife; the ways digital media are currently being used to expand the possibilities of commemorating the dead and managing the grief of ... more

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Digital Ecclesiology: A Global Conversation

Heidi A. Campbell (ed.)

Digital Religion Publications;Network for New Media, Religion & Digital Culture Studies (2020), 71 pp.

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Church and Social Media Today

S. Sebastian Periannan

Jeevadhara: A Journal for Socio-religious Research, volume 50, issue 295 (2020), pp. 55-67

"Social media serves to strengthen human and social relations through connectivity, and promotes a culture of free enterprises beyond boundaries. Church recognizes that sodal media and networks are a 'gift from God'. Without authentic love, sense of unity and urgency for charity, the social media co ... more

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Comunicação, linguagens e religiões: Tendências e perspectivas na pesquisa

Magali do Nascimento Cunha, Letícia Jovelina Storto (org.)

Londrina: Syntagma Editores (2020), 446 pp.

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The big friendly counter-space? Interreligious encounter within social media

Anna Neumaier

Religion, volume 50, issue 3 (2020), pp. 392-413

"Research on interreligious dialogue mostly focuses on face-to-face meetings, however, it also takes place in other contexts. Among them is the huge space of interactive media, where adherents of different religious traditions meet, e.g., in interreligious groups on Facebook, boards or commentary se ... more

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An Introduction to Religious Pluralism in Sri Lanka

Sulochana Peiris

Colombo: Internews (2019), 39 pp.

"While the first chapter looks at the existing constitutional and legal provisions for the exercise of freedom of religion and religious plurality, the other four chapters reflect upon some of the key sites of religious interface and syncretism that promote inter-religious understanding and pluralit ... more

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Reading, Feeling, Believing: Online Testimonies and the Making of Evangelical Emotion

Suzanne van Geuns

Journal of Contemporary Religion, volume 34, issue 1 (2019), pp. 97-115

"A personal relationship with God is central to Evangelical belief. It unfolds as believers interpret internal sensations as coming from outside—from God. How does the formulaic design of testimonies present the audience with a personal relationship with God as a pursuit that is both feasible and ... more

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Anthropological Perspectives on the Religious Uses of Mobile Apps

Jacqueline H. Fewkes (ed.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), 248 pp.

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The Bible and Digital Millennials

David G. Ford, Joshua L. Mann, Peter M. Phillips

Milton: Routledge (2019), xi, 126 pp.

"Explores the place of the Bible in the lives of 18 to 35 year-olds who have been born into the digital age. As the use of digital media becomes increasingly pervasive, it should follow that it will have a significant effect on people’s engagement with religion and the sacred texts associated with ... more

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Les anges au portail du web: L'ange entre ciel et terre, des religions au numérique

Odette Barbero, Dominique Chabert

Paris: L'Harmattan (2019), 142 pp.

"A l’ère du numérique, séraphins, chérubins et autres figures angéliques peuplent toujours notre imaginaire. Les images de ces êtres pourtant invisibles se multiplient : ils sont présents dans les religions traditionnelles, dans l’ésotérisme de néo-spiritualités et classiquement repr� ... more

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Mediatized Religion in Asia: Studies on Digital Media and Religion

Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Xenia Zeiler (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2019), xv, 231 pp.

"This edited volume discusses mediatized religion in Asia, examining the intensity and variety of constructions and processes related to digital media and religion in Asia today. Individual chapters present case studies from various regions and religious traditions in Asia, critically discussing the ... more

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Contextualizing Current Digital Religion Research on Emerging Technologies

Heidi A. Cambell, Giula Evolvi

Human Behavior and Ermerging Technologies, volume 2, issue 1 (2019), pp. 5-17

"This article provides an overview of contemporary research within the interdisciplinary arc of scholarship known as digital religion studies, in which scholars explore the intersection between emerging digital technologies, lived and material religious practices in contemporary culture, and the imp ... more

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Priests in Nigeria and the Use of Social Media

Gerald Mamman Musa

Journal of Inculturation Theology, volume 16, issue 1 (2019), pp. 116-130

"The Church should continually take advantage of the on-going digital revolution to advance her goals cf propagating the good news and salvation' of souls (salus animarum). Priests have a responsibility to explore the potentials of social media in realizing the objectives of new evangelization. Usin ... more

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Quranic App Practices Among Multilingual Muslim Youth in Denmark

Line Møller Daugaard

Apples – Journal of Applied Language Studies, volume 13, issue 4 (2019), pp. 43-69

"This article sheds light on a set of religious literacy practices which have so far received very little scientific attention, namely ‘quranic app practices’. Quranic app practices are conceptualized as ways of engaging with the Quran through religious apps on smartphones or tablets. The articl ... more

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Social Communication Needs for the Church in Myanmar: Towards an "Online Church"!

Lucia Thandar Aung

Manila: University of Santo Tomas, Master Thesis (2019), xiv, 152 pp.

"Radio Veritas Asia-Myanmar Service (RVA-MS) had been broadcasting socio-political and religious programming in Shortwave (SW) since November 11, 1978. However, on 30 June 2018, RVA stopped broadcasting in SW and migrated to the internet-based multiplatform broadcasting along with the use of Social ... more

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Christian Ethics for a Digital Society

Kate M. Ott

Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield (2019), xi, 177 pp.

"Instead of just worrying about the next technological gadget or app, it s time we consider what Christianity has to offer a world increasingly reimagined in a digital landscape. This book provides a new perspective on how to assess digital technology use, development, and expansion through a lens o ... more

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The Emergence of Prophetic Ministries in Botswana: Self-Positioning and Appropriation of New Media

Gabriel Faimau

Journal of Contemporary African Studies, volume 36, issue 3 (2018), pp. 369-385

"In the past two decades or so, Botswana has witnessed a spectacular growth of prophetic Christianity and experienced a media revolution through the emerging use of new media. While studies have generally focused on either the growth of Pentecostal Charismatic Christianity or the new media revolutio ... more

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Digitalizing Islamic Lectures: Islamic Apps and Religious Engagement in Contemporary Indonesia

Moch Fakhruroji

Contemporary Islam, volume 13 (2018), pp. 201-215

"Contemporary mobile phone technology has brought millions of apps into the pockets of users, including a wide variety oriented towards religious concerns. Such apps appear to be creating new forms of religious engagement, a process that is particularly visible within Indonesia. This paper will exam ... more

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Tutorial: Como evangelizar nativos digitais

Aline Amaro da Silva

In: Escolhendo Jesus: jovens cristãos para uma nova sociedade

Aline Amaro da Silva; Antonio Ramos do Prado; Elias Silva; Welder Lancieri Marchini

Petrópolis: Vozes (2018), pp. 57-89

"Primeiro, precisamos de uma 'Metanoia digital', isto é, uma mudança de mentalidade, uma visão de mundo que amplie nossa compreensão da realidade, especialmente no que se refere à fé e à rede. Depois de uma experiência transformadora nós temos a tendência a nos tornarmos seguidores e espal ... more

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Internet News, Media Technologies, and Islam: The Case of Shafaqna

Babak Rahimi

In: Spiritual News: Reporting Religion Around the World

Yoel Cohen (ed.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2018), pp. 367-381

"The study examines the case of a Shia online news agency, Shafaqna, to argue that Internet news production by different Muslim organizations has not been limited to propagation nor circulation of religiously sanctioned news but has also been utilized as a way of building interactive identity with r ... more