"Divided into five parts, the Handbook opens with a state-of-the-art overview of the subject’s intellectual landscape, introducing the historical background, theoretical foundations, and major academic approaches to communication, media, and religion. Subsequent sections focus on institutional and
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functional perspectives, theological and cultural approaches, and new approaches in digital technologies. The essays provide insight into a wide range of topics, including religious use of media, religious identity, audience gratification, religious broadcasting, religious content in entertainment, films and religion, news reporting about religion, race and gender, the sex-religion matrix, religious crisis communication, public relations and advertising, televangelism, pastoral ministry, death and the media, online religion, future directions in religious communication, and more." (Publisher description)
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"Das Craftbook ist ein Werkzeugkasten, der innovative Projekte in kirchlichen Organisationen beschleunigt. Als zusammenhängendes Framework lassen sich die Tools und Methoden sowohl zur langfristigen Prozessplanung, zur Stärkung des Markenprofils als auch zur Gestaltung von einzelnen Arbeitsphasen
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nutzen. Es begleitet Dich von der Formulierung eigener Mission Statements über die Definition von Zielgruppen bis hin zur Wettbewerbsanalyse, Entwicklung einer Markenstrategie und Produktimplementierung." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"This book explores marketing as a genuine component of religious traditions. It investigates the theme across a large historical and geographical area, and in a variety of expressions, ranging from 3rd BCE Maya stucco friezes, early Christian writings, and 9th CE Cambodian inscriptions, right down
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to modern-day propaganda and recruitment strategies adopted by the ISIS jihadi movement, Falun Gong, Muslim Varkaris, spirit mediums in India and Thailand, Thai Buddhist monasteries, and the Vatican. The book is unique in its theme and scope. The chapters were written without a single controlling agenda, but all emphasize the need to view our modern consumer society as only one among many historical conditions that have shaped religious marketing. In fact, it will become clear from reading through the chapters that marketing and propaganda are inherent in religions and their teachings. The broad scope of the book shows religious marketing as embedded in and responding to diverse cultural settings, rather than as an isolated component of utility maximization. It allows us to understand religious marketing as a large window into the mental and cultural landscapes of the studied communities. This will have an eye-opening methodological impact on an area of studies that often limits itself to a narrow view of interactions between two opposing fields: spirituality and the market." (Publisher description)
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"Carlos Luna plantea abordar el reto de la evangelización desde una nueva disciplina a la que él llama marketing religioso. Propone sumar nuevas dimensiones más allá de la comunicación que permiten entrar en relación con los alejados a la fe. Un manual innovador de mercadotecnia religiosa que
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muestra cómo crear nuevos puntos de distribución para llegar a la gente, como crear nuevos productos y contenidos atractivos hoy, proponiendo además un nuevo modelo de comunicación basado en los encuentros de la Biblia. Todo ello para lograr un cambio de actitud favorable en los distintos públicos hacia la propuesta del Evangelio. Un libro inspirador que pretende ser guía para cualquier católico preocupado por la evangelización hoy o cualquier tipo de institución independientemente de su tamaño. Además en este manual, encontrarás ejercicios prácticos para ayudar a tu institución o comunidad cristiana a crear una estrategia que os permita llegar a vuestro público, y dinamizar vuestra comunidad sin caer en la apatía y la desesperanza." (Editorial)
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"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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-centric engagement strategies: God–Congregant, Church–Congregant, and Intra-Congregational. The quantitative content analysis of Facebook and Instagram posts from 15 megachurches in five countries [Australia; New Zealand; United Kingdom; United States; Canada] revealed that megachurches used the combination God–Congregant & Church–Congregant engagement strategies, as well as the singular Church–Congregant engagement strategy, the most often. Yet, audiences engaged significantly more with posts using the God–Congregant engagement strategy when compared to all other strategies. The use of engagement strategies and engagement received on posts varied according to geographical location and cultural differences, suggesting there may be a cultural aspect to what earns engagement from followers. Advertisers looking to increase online engagement should focus their efforts on persuasive messages that include the object-audience engagement strategy. This study advances advertising theory on engagement by suggesting that engagement is contingent upon the engagement strategy utilized as well as the specific region’s norms around the brand and community." (Abstract)
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"This volume brings together the lectures and presentations of the main speakers at the eleventh edition of the Professional Seminar for Church Communications Offices: Dialogue, Respect and Freedom of Expression in the Public Sphere, organized by the School of Church Communications of the Pontifical
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Univwersity of the Holy Cross, in Rome in April 17 to 19, 2018." (Back cover)
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"Evangelización efectiva en el nuevo panorama religioso, por lotanto, requiere una reorientación de los programas de Iglesia y mensajes con el status quo de la gente para obtener respuesta positiva. Ello precisa un sistemático estudio de las necesidades, deseos, percepciones, preferencias asi cor
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no la satisfacción de las necesidades de la gente siendo apuntado para la evangelización y alimento espiritual. La naturaleza dinámica de la vida humana y el ambiente hace necesario que la Iglesia personalice sus productos especificos o servicios a las tendencias actuales, patrones de pensamiento y necesidades "empaquetando" el mensaje en un lenguaje modemo-global de los medios digitales mientras permanece fiel a su doctrina." (Conclusión)
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"In focusing on the twin processes of marketization and mediatization, the intention is by no means to argue that markets and media constitute the only factors shaping religion today. Nor is the intention to argue that a focus on marketization and mediatization would provide the “best” way to st
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udy contemporary processes of institutional religious change. Having said that, the approach of this book is nevertheless grounded in the firm contention that a serious and systematic consideration of the impact of processes of marketization and mediatization as key vectors of social and cultural change in the post–World War II era has great potential to nuance and enrich already existing theoretical thinking on contemporary institutional religious change. This potential is, however, crucially dependent on the capacity of researchers to provide firmly empirically grounded arguments about exactly how processes of marketization and mediatization work to effect social, cultural, and institutional religious change. This book directs particular attention to the ways in which processes of marketization and mediatization have been accompanied by the spread of a set of powerful discourses and discursive formations that have proliferated throughout ever more social and cultural domains and increasingly come to underpin contemporary criteria of eff ective institutional and organizational life, agency, practice, and communication. The focus of this book thus lies firmly on the ideational and discursive dimensions of processes of marketization and mediatization. The book is further based on the premise that the ideational and discursive dimensions of marketization and mediatization have had the strongest and most clearly observable effect on long-established institutional Christian Protestant churches that have retained close structural relationships to states and core social establishments, and for which the gradual general transition from a previous vertical national-statist model of social organization toward a horizontal, deregulated, and market- inspired network model has been most challenging." (Introduction, page 8-9)
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"Em geral os estudos sobre a relação evangélicos e mídia se notabilizam pela apreciação geral que fazem do assunto. Considerando a situação de pluralismo religioso e a sociedade contemporânea como mercadológica e a necessidade de se estudar as rádios evangélicas do Rio de Janeiro, mostra
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r-se-á neste artigo uma categoria de análise que servirá para identificar as mídias religiosas que tem por motivação a livre concorrência e não a missão e o proselitismo." (Resumo)
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