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Church Communication in the New Normal: Perspectives from Asia and Beyond
Deep Insights
Bangkok: Asian Research Center for Religion and Social Communication (2022), xxvii, 343 pp.
"Despite the wide-ranging topics presented in this collection, this volume takes ‘communication’ as the keyword for the various research and reflections on the life and mission of the Catholic Church during the COVID-19 pandemic as well as post-crisis. The reader will readily recognize that what
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The Routledge Handbook of Hindu-Christian Relations
London; New York: Routledge (2021), xiv, 501 pp.
"The tension between the two historical realities, Hinduism as an ancient Indian religion and Christianity as a religion associated with foreign power and colonialism, continues to animate Hindu-Christian relations today. On the one hand, The Routledge Handbook of Hindu-Christian Relations describes
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"Indonesia is religious diverse with six recognized religions and hundreds of registered religions, which contributes to rich beliefs, but also has potential for religiously based conflicts. There have been an increase in religiously motivated violent incidents such as terrorism, radicalism cases fr
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Evaluating Interreligious Peacebuilding and Dialogue: Methods and Frameworks
Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter (2021), vi, 230 pp.
"In the emerging fields of religious and interreligious peacebuilding, the question of monitoring and evaluation is a challenging, yet necessary process. The need to develop comprehensive yet fitting evaluation models for religious and interreligious peacebuilding is not only important for donor int
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Interreligious contact and media: Introduction
Religion, volume 50, issue 3 (2020), pp. 321-335
"Religious pluralisation entails interreligious contacts of different kinds and at various levels. At the same time, an increasing mediatisation affects the perception of and encounter with other religious traditions and their adherents. These relations between interreligious contact and media have
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The space between us: Considering online media for interreligious dialogue
Religion, volume 50, issue 3 (2020), pp. 437-454
"The internet has been conceptualized as a public sphere in which constructive dialogues – such as inter-religious dialogues – can occur. Public spheres, however, require reason, reflectivity and sincerity rarely found in most web spaces. Therefore, this approach might be counterproductive. Inst
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‘Dear Hindu Friends’: Official Diwali greetings as a medium for diplomatic dialogue
Religion, volume 50, issue 3 (2020), pp. 353-371
"This article discusses greeting messages as a genre of interreligious communication. Greeting messages are defined as official communication issued by religious institutions and addressed to the members of another religious community on the occasion of specific feast days or anniversaries. Drawing
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Guestbooks in multifaith spaces as (inter-)religious media
Religion, volume 50, issue 3 (2020), pp. 372-391
"In recent years, various forms of multifaith spaces have been emerging in Germany which include so-called Rooms of Silence in hospitals or educational institutions as well as Gardens of Religions. So far, empirical research on these spaces has focused on their establishment or their functions withi
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Interreligious dialogue groups and the mass media
Religion, volume 50, issue 3 (2020), pp. 336-352
"Interreligious dialogues have received attention since they were introduced as a security policy and social pacification measure after the attack on 9/11. This essay examines the development of interreligious dialogue in Germany as well as the influence of media discourses on interreligious dialogu
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Christentum medial: Religiöse Kommunikation in digitaler Kultur
Regensburg: Pustet (2020), 187 pp.
"Dieser Band beschäftigt sich mit der Rolle und Bedeutung von Medialität und Medienwandel im Christentum in Geschichte und Gegenwart aus interdisziplinärer und weltkirchlicher Perspektive. Wie gestaltet sich die Wechselbeziehung zwischen sich wandelnden Medien auf der einen Seite und christlichen
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Types of Interreligious Dialogue
Journal of Interreligious Studies, issue 31 (2020), pp. 48-72
"The existing classifications of types of interreligious dialogue have limitations and shortcomings and do not allow us to describe this extremely complex, multi-faceted phenomenon in a systematic and complete way. The article presents an original classification of interreligious dialogue that provi
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The big friendly counter-space? Interreligious encounter within social media
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
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An Introduction to Religious Pluralism in Sri Lanka
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
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The Way, the Truth and the Life: Asian Religious Communication in the Post-Truth Climate
Religion and Social Communication, volume 16, issue 1 (2018), pp. 19-40
"This paper proposes that Asian religions can address the challenges of the post-truth mindset by resorting to powerful images within their traditions to communicate within and across traditions in order to promote religious unity and harmony. It asserts that the images employed by Jesus to refer to
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Mouvement interreligieux et usages d’Internet au Burkina Faso: Le cas de l’Union Fraternelle des Croyants (UFC) de Dori
Émulations: Revue de Sciences Sociales, issue 24 (2017), pp. 23-35
"L’arrivée d’Internet provoque des évolutions dans le rapport aux médias des communautés religieuses. Il y a une volonté de visibilité externe grâce à l’usage d’Internet comme moyen de communication et comme mode de présence. À partir de l’exemple de l’Union fraternelle des cro
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Typing my Religion: Digital Use of Religious Webs and Apps by Adolescents and Youth for Religious and Interreligious Dialogue
Church, Communication and Culture, volume 2, issue 2 (2017), pp. 121-143
"With 13 religions, 8061 religious centers, 2 million of young people, Catalonia accommodates a wide range of religions. Almost 90% of people own digital devices. In this framework, we aim to study the consumption of digital media by Catalan millennials from all over the region, with only young peop
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"This Guide aims to help practitioners make sense of monitoring and evaluation as applied to inter-religious action in peacebuilding. It aims to support good practice among people who are involved in commissioning or contributing to such efforts, whether they be religious, secular or a combination o
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