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From Living in the Shadows to Facebook Livestreams: The Impact of Social Media on Current Mediumship Practice of Mother Goddesses Worship (Dao Mâu) in Vietnam
Religion and Social Communication, volume 23, issue 2 (2025), pp. 451-473
"This paper explores the transformative impact of social media on mediumship practice within the context of Mother Goddesses worship (Dao Mâu) in contemporary Vietnam. By examining the ways in which spirit mediums and practitioners utilise social media platforms, the study reveals that these digita
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Kirchengeschichte und Digitale Spiele
Stuttgart: Kohlhammer (2025), 263 pp.
"Analog zu Film- und Theaterwissenschaften setzen sich die "Game Studies" mit dem Medium und seinem Einfluss auf die Gesellschaft auseinander. Anders als in der Geschichtswissenschaft gibt es im Bereich der Kirchengeschichte erst seit Kurzem Bestrebungen, sich dem Phänomen der Darstellung von Verga
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Von bierbrauenden Mönchen und kriegerischen Nonnen
Stuttgart: Kohlhammer (2024), 257 pp.
"Spiele sind ein wichtiger Bestandteil populärer (Kirchen-)Geschichtskulturen. Durch die Kombination aus Setting, Material und Regelsystem transportieren sie einer breiten Öffentlichkeit Vorstellungen von historischen Ereignissen, Personen und Epochen. Noch kaum erforscht ist der Umstand, dass vie
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Kasiyana as Religious Communication among the Kankanaeys in the Philippines
Religion and Social Communication, volume 22, issue 2 (2024), pp. 444-469
"Indigenous cultures have their belief systems, including the recognition of a supreme being, and with such recognition comes their moral systems, which guide how they live their lives. As for the Kankanaeys in the Cordillera Region of the Philippines, Kasiyana is one of the practices that portrays
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Felicidade e religiosidade no YouTube: A midiatização da nova era e as novas formas de crer na sociedade ocidental contemporânea
Ciências Sociais e Religião (Campinas), volume 26, issue e024007 (2024), 23 pp.
"O artigo a se propõe a investigar os sentidos das novas formas de religiosidade secularizadas, tomando como objeto o movimento religioso Nova Era e seus produtos midiáticos no YouTube. O texto objetiva analisar como religiosidade e autoajuda entrelaçam seus discursos em uma ambiência midiatizad
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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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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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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 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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Orphaned Landscapes: Violence, Visuality, and Appearance in Indonesia
New York: Fordham University Press (2022), viii, 304 pp.
"Less than a year after the end of authoritarian rule in 1998, huge images of Jesus Christ and other Christian scenes proliferated on walls and billboards around a provincial town [Ambon] in eastern Indonesia where conflict had arisen between Muslims and Christians. A manifestation of the extreme pe
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Religiöse Helden: Glaube, Religion und Moralität in der superheroischen Popkultur
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2022), 220 pp.
"Superheld*innen sind in der Krise: Gut und Böse, Richtig und Falsch sind nach starken sozialen und politischen Umbrüchen längst nicht mehr klar und eindeutig. Für das Genre ein eklatantes Problem. Religion und Glaube könnten hier Orientierung bieten, verlieren aber - so der gängige Vorwurf -
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Die Ikone und das Undarstellbare: Ikonentheorien im bildtheoretischen Kontext
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2022), 227 pp.
"Wie kam es zu dem ikonischen Überschuss des christlichen Heiligenbildes? Janine Luge-Winter geht dieser Frage nach, indem sie die verschiedenen Argumente byzantinischen Bildapologien des 8. und 9. Jahrhunderts und der modernen Ikonentheorien des 20. Jahrhunderts erstmals in ihrer Studie versammelt
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Novelas Bíblicas: Sabedoria da Bíblia para os Dias de Hoje
São Paulo: Paulus (2021), 102 pp.
"A novela bíblica é um gênero literário por excelência para o exercício da interação entre a comunidade que produziu o texto e a comunidade que o lê e o atualiza. Com suas cores próprias, a novela bíblica é um artifício popular que cresce em importância no período posterior ao exílio
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Comics and sacred texts: Reimagining religion and graphic narratives
Jackson (MS): University Press of Mississippi (2018), xxi, 299 pp.
"In both visual and linguistic forms, graphic narratives reveal representational strategies to encounter the sacred in all its ambivalence. Through close readings and critical inquiry, these essays contemplate the intersections between religion and comics in ways that critically expand our ability t
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Los rostros del gran poder: Representaciones, prensa y fiesta
La Paz: Universidad Católica Boliviana; Plural Editores (2018), 127 pp.
"¿Quiénes nos representan en los medios? ¿Cómo lo hacen? ¿Qué efectos pueden producir esas representaciones? Estas y otras preguntas se responden a través de esta brillante invetigación, focalizada particularmente en la representación de "lo cholo" y "lo mestizo", en la cobertura de la fies
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Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa
Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press (2018), ix, 320 pp.
"Religion, Media, and Marginality in Modern Africa is one of the first volumes to put new media and old media into significant conversation with one another, and also offers a rare comparison between Christianity and Islam in Africa. The contributors find many previously unacknowledged correspondenc
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music
London et al.: Bloomsbury Academic (2017), xiv, 425 pp.
"The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Popular Music is the first comprehensive analysis of the most important themes and concepts in this field. Drawing on contemporary research from religious studies, theology, sociology, ethnography, and cultural studies, the volume comprises thirty-one specifi
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Diversidad de prácticas religiosas en las villas de la ciudad de Buenos Aires
Debates en Sociología, volume 44 (2017), pp. 119-143
"El trabajo describe y analiza la diversidad de prácticas religiosas de habitantes de villas de Buenos Aires. Se basa en datos agregados relevados con un cuestionario aplicado a una muestra representativa de residentes de estos territorios. Se presenta primero una discusión sobre el concepto de re
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Folklore, religion and the songs of a Bengali madman: A journey between performance and the politics of cultural representation
Leiden; Boston: Brill (2016), xvi, 332 pp.
"This book explores historical and cultural aspects of modern and contemporary Bengal through the performance-centred study of a particular repertoire: the songs of the saint-composer Bhaba Pagla (1902-1984), who is particularly revered among Baul and Fakir singers. The author shows how songs, if ex
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The Routledge Companion to Religion and Popular Culture
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2015), xvii, 583 pp.
"Religion and popular culture is a fast-growing field that spans a variety of disciplines. This volume offers the first real survey of the field to date and provides a guide for the work of future scholars. It explores: "key issues of definition and of methodology, religious encounters with popular
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