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Digital Media Utilization by Catholic Archdiocese of Nyeri for Evangelization During COVID-19 Pandemic
Nairobi: Daystar University, Master Thesis (2024), xii, 119 pp.
"Tied on New Media Theory, this study came up with three objectives. First, to explore how the Catholic Archdiocese of Nyeri utilized digital media to reach its congregants during the COVID-19 pandemic. Secondly, to examine the views of congregants of the Catholic Archdiocese of Nyeri regarding the
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Religious Freedom and Populism: The Appropriation of a Human Right and How to Counter it
Bielefeld: transcript (2024), 263 pp.
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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Faith 'n' science
Internews;IMA World Health (2023), 14 pp.
"A majority of communities in sub–Saharan Africa subscribe to religion which is part of the people’s way of life. At the center of religion are religious leaders whom communities trust and consult on various issues beyond faith and religion. By partnering with these revered figures and building
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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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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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SIMBAHAY: Flipping Church Service During the COVID-19 Pandemic Uncertainty and Implications to Spirituality
Religion and Social Communication, volume 20, issue 1 (2022), pp. 68-99
"Guided by the relational prayer theory (Baesler, 2002), this paper analyzed how Catholics flipped their homes as church to be saved from COVID-19 uncertainties by attending online masses at the Manila Cathedral (MC). Through Facebook Analytics, the study determined the number of attendees to online
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Ecclesiology for a Digital Church: Theological Reflections on a New Normal
London: SCM Press (2022), xviii, 180 pp.
"This volume contains a collection of 12 chapters discussing the theme of the book, which focuses on the COVID-19 pandemic and the implications that this crisis holds for the church in the future. The main matter being examined in this book is the ecclesiological challenges and opportunities present
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Religion and Environmental Flourishing: Reflections from the Pandemic Experience
Religion and Social Communication, volume 20, issue 2 (2022), pp. 175-368
"The contributions in the form of research articles and essays come from a variety of religious perspectives – Buddhist, Catholic, Muslim, Jain, Hindu, Protestant, Eastern Orthodox. Despite coming from different religious worldviews, the underlying message fundamentally affirms that promoting ecol
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Covid-19, Communication and Religion
Church, Communication and Culture, volume 7, issue 1 (2022), pp. 1-263
"The contributions of this special issue are grouped in three sections: context, theoretical framework and empirical research. The first articles set up two important dimensions of the context we are living in that have to be definitely improved if we want to take advantage of the positive sides of
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Topic and Sentiment Analysis of Responses to Muslim Clerics’ Misinformation Correction About COVID-19 Vaccine: Comparison of Three Machine Learning Models
Online Media and Global Communication, volume 1, issue 3 (2022), pp. 497-523
"This study employed three machine learning algorithms, Naïve Bayes, SVM, and a Balanced Random Forest to build a sentiment model that can detect Muslim sentiment about Muslim clerics’ anti-misinformation campaign on YouTube. Overall, 9701 comments were collected. An LDA-based topic model was als
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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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Israeli Information Policy, COVID-19 and the Ultra-Orthodox Haredim
Religion and Social Communication, volume 20, issue 1 (2022), pp. 45-67
"Against the background of the COVID-19 crisis in Israel, the country’s ultra-orthodox population, the Haredim, were faced with seemingly insuperable dilemmas of compromising their religious standards for the sake of dealing with the virus. The government launched a public relations campaign to pe
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Christ, Cross and COVID-19: Words That Never Die in the New Normal Religious Communication
Religion and Social Communication, volume 20, issue 1 (2022), pp. 19-44
"A correlative resonance exists between the experience of communication in the new normal forced by the COVID-19 pandemic and each of the Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross. The words become the new normal way and guiding beacon to how religious communication can be effectuated during the pande
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The Role of Religions and Conspiracy Theories in Democratic and Authoritarian Regimes
Politics and Governance, volume 10, issue 4 (2022), pp. 132-242
"This thematic issue asks about the role of religions and religious actors and conspiracy theories/theorists in democratic and authoritarian regimes in general. Special attention is given to the current Covid]19 pandemic, since the relevant state of emergency obviously endorses the persuasiveness
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#IAMHUSSEINI: Television and mourning during the COVID-19 pandemic
Religion, volume 52, issue 2 (2022), pp. 284-305
"This article is a study of mourning among Shi’a Muslims during the COVID-19 pandemic through a call-in talk show called #IAMHUSSEINI. By analyzing the discourses of callers and presenters and locating them within a visual context of the television studio, this article shows how the viewership of
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Religion and the COVID-19 pandemic: Mediating presence and distance
Religion, volume 52, issue 2 (2022), pp. 177-198
"This introduction opens a collection of seven articles which investigate how religious communities negotiate demands for physical distance induced by governmental responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in accord with their religious and spiritual aspirations to establish presence and togetherness. Grou
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Church Communication in the New Normal: Perspectives from Asia and Beyond
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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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Religion, Medien und die Corona-Pandemie: Paradoxien einer Krise
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2021), 134 pp.
Pastoral Creativity Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Global Experiences
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Bangkog, Manila: Asian Research Center for Religion and Social Communication;Logos (Divine Word) Publications (2021), ix, 243 pp.
"The content of the book is organized into four sections. The first three sections are essays recounting real-world experiences of pastoral agents. These essays are roughly divided into three sub-groups. The first group of essays focus on the parish setting and the ministries that each parish attemp
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