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An Ecosystemic Approach to Digital Christianity: How Faith and Identity Formation Evolve Among Youth in Singapore
Religion and Social Communication, volume 23, issue 2 (2025), pp. 322-346
"This sociological and ethnographic study develops and employs an ecosystemic approach to examine the effects of digitalization on religious beliefs and practices among young Christians in a Pentecostal megachurch in Singapore. Through extensive fieldwork and qualitative data analysis, this paper un
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Redes sociais evangélicas e música gospel no Brasil: Questões raciais nas margens do mundo religioso
Ciências Sociais e Religião (Campinas), volume 26, issue e024011 (2024), 31 pp.
"Nas últimas décadas, a utilização das mídias por igrejas evangélicas brasileiras se intensificou com a disseminação das redes sociais na internet. Viu-se também uma ampliação do mercado de bens culturais religiosos, sobretudo na área da música. Se essas múltiplas mediações comunicac
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The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion
Top Insights
New York: Oxford University Press (2024), xiii, 661 pp.
"Digital Religion refers to the contemporary practice and understanding that religion takes place in both online and offline contexts, and how these contexts intersect with each other. Scholars in this growing field of Digital Religion studies recognize that religion has been influenced by its engag
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Vernetzt und zugewandt - digitale Gemeinde gestalten: Ein Praxishandbuch
Key Guidance
Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag (2024), 220 pp.
"Die Lebenswelt der meisten Menschen ist digital, viele Gemeinden sind es dagegen noch nicht. Nicht nur bei sinkenden Mitglieder- und Gottesdienstbesucherzahlen wird es höchste Zeit, Wege zu finden, um relevant zu bleiben. Auch darüber hinaus bieten digitale Angebote viel Mehrwert für ein lebendi
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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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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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Digitale Communities: Eine Pilotstudie zur Followerschaft von christlichen Influencer*innen auf Instagram
Berlin: midi;Evangelisches Werk für Diakonie und Entwicklung (2022), 88 pp.
"Die vorliegende Pilotstudie kontextualisiert zunächst das Phänomen, das sich hinter dem Begriff „Digitale Communities“ verbirgt im Feld der wissenschaftlichen Begleitforschung und nimmt begriffliche Schärfungen vor (Kap. 2). Im Zentrum stehen dann die empirischen Ergebnisse der Befragung der
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Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds
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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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Religion in the Age of Digitalization: From New Media to Spiritual Machines
Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge (2021), xii, 195 pp.
"Divided into two sections, the chapters included in the first section of the book present case studies from five major religions: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism and their engagement with digitalization. The second section of the volume explores the moral, ideological but also o
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Revisiting the Distanced Church
Digital Religion Publications;Network for New Media, Religion & Digital Culture Studies (2021), 129 pp.
"This eBook provides a follow-up conversation with key contributors from The Distanced Church, published in April 2020, which explored how church leaders were responding and adapting to the need move their traditional services online during the first lockdown of the covid-19 pandemic. Revisiting the
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Kirchen im Social Web: Zusammenfassung einer quantitativen Analyse der Social-Web-Aktivitäten 2015 und 2020. Mit Daten zum ersten Corona-Lockdown
München: Medien-Dienstleistung GmbH (MDG) (2021), 23 pp.
"Während im Jahr 2015 rund zwei Drittel der (Erz-)Bistümer und die Hälfte der Landeskirchen im Social Web präsent waren, sind es in 2020 mit einzelnen Ausnahmen alle. In den letzten fünf Jahren ist die Zahl der Abonnenten und Follower auf den einzelnen Kanälen gestiegen. Auch wenn Abonnentenza
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What a Friend We Have in Facebook: Norwegian Christian Churches’ Use of Social Media
Journal of Media and Religion, volume 20, issue 3 (2021), pp. 123-142
"This study examines how Christian churches in Norway use social media. The key finding is that the churches do not take extensive advantage of the opportunities for two-way communication offered by the platforms, but primarily use their social media channels to promote church activities or broadcas
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Building Relationships with the Faithful: Examining Church Communicators Perceptions of Social Media Influencers in Their OPR Strategy
Journal of Public Relations Research, volume 33, issue 4 (2021), pp. 250-266
"The current study investigates how Church communicators perceive the role of social media platforms and influencers in their overall stakeholder engagement strategy. Building upon the Organization-Public Relationship (OPR) body of literature, we conducted 13 in-depth interviews with public relation
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Promoting the Faith: Examining Megachurches’ Audience-Centric Advertising Strategies on Social Media
Journal of Advertising, volume 50, issue 4 (2021), pp. 408-422
"Megachurches have a reputation for savvy use of digital media; however, little is known about their advertising strategy or which strategies elicit engagement. By assessing megachurches’ promotional content on social media, this study draws on the devotional campaign framework to examine audience
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Social Media Conversion: Lessons from Faith-Based Social Media Influencers for Public Relations
Journal of Public Relations Research, volume 33, issue 4 (2021), pp. 231-249
"The growing importance of social media influencers (SMIs) as sources for attitude and behavior necessitate a focus on influencers (and their strategies to influence) in public relations research and practice. This study investigated perspectives among a specific type of SMI – the religious or fai
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Christliche Influencer: In der Aufmerksamkeitsspirale
Herder Korrespondenz, issue 4 (2020), pp. 38-40
"Christiche Akteure im Netz: Die einen bieten allerlei Lebensdienliches, die anderen punkten mit Provokationen. Die Kirchen sollten sich von diesem Medienphänomen nicht zu viel versprechen. Denn es steht für ein Christentum, das sich der digitalen Marktlogik unterwirft und nicht in der realen Welt
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The Distanced Church: Reflections on Doing Church Online
Digital Religion Publications;Network for New Media, Religion & Digital Culture Studies (2020), 93 pp.
"In March/April 2020 most churches around the world have been forced to close their doors due to the need for social distancing and local lock-downs in order to fight off the spread of the COVID-19 virus. The result was traditional churches had to make an unplanned and swift transition towards techn
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Digital creatives and the rethinking of religious authority
London; New York: Routledge (2020), ix, 226 pp.
"The book Digital Creatives and the Rethinking of Religious Authority makes a valuable contribution to the study of how religious authority is evolving in the digital age. The author synthesizes previous research and introduces a new framework for categorizing types of religious authority in digital
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Reading, Feeling, Believing: Online Testimonies and the Making of Evangelical Emotion
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
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The Emergence of Prophetic Ministries in Botswana: Self-Positioning and Appropriation of New Media
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
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