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Amicable communication with today's young people: Social communication serving the Salesian mission in the Church
Deep Insights
Rome: Direzione Generale Opere Don Bosco (2025), 120 pp.
"The goal of this new document is to be a guide and a formation tool in continuity with what has been stated in the earlier edition (2011), at the same time seeking to respond in a Salesian style to the socio-cultural changes of the new generations and the digital world. Through new educative and pa
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The Handbook on Religion and Communication
Deep Insights
Newark: Wiley Blackwell (2023), 571 pp.
"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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Seeing and Believing: Religion, Digital Visual Culture, and Social Justice
New York: Columbia University Press (2023), xxix, 218 pp.
"In at least some cases, visual images can challenge normative and normalized ways of grasping the world and prompt their viewers to see differently-and even bring people together. Seeing and Believing marshals religious resources to recast the significance of digital images in the struggle for soci
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God Talk: The Problem of Divine-Human Communication
New York; Berlin: Peter Lang (2022), xxii, 192 pp.
"The collection of critiques advances a powerful question that must be asked if we are to gain a broader and deeper understanding of humanity. The phenomenon of Divine-human communication (DHC) is framed as an area of scholarship replete with heurism, not limiting itself to Judeo-Christian belief sy
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The Approach of Pope Benedict XVI to Media and Digital Culture in Catholic Social Thought
Church, Communication and Culture, volume 7, issue 2 (2022), pp. 391-414
"At a time when there has been a technological development and a renewal in the field of communication, the Church has been implementing its Social Doctrine on the media and the digital world. In his official documents, and with the theology of communication as a background, Benedict XVI has explore
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A Media Ecology of Theology: Communicating Faith Throughout the Christian Tradition
Waco: Baylor University Press (2022), viii, 232 pp.
"The contemporary emphasis on written or academic theology obscures the long history in which people sought to understand and express their faith by way of various outlets and formats. Because historical Christianity has embraced every communication medium, the media ecology approach to communicatio
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The Value of Spiritual Conversation in the Digital Age
Ignaziana: Rivista di Ricerca Teologica, volume 31 (2021), pp. 75-111
"This study opened its first part analyzing the current digital communication culture with the question of how authentic communication is possible, in line with Pope Francis’ particular sense of pastoral care and outlook, for today’s digital environment. It found that the digital communication c
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Love and Communication
Cambridge; Medford, MA: Polity Press (2021), v, 125 pp.
"Love and Communication is an intriguing philosophical and religious inquiry into the meaning of "talk" - and ultimately the meaning of "being human." Taking an historical approach, Paddy Scannell argues that the fundamental media of communication are (and always have been) talk and writing. Far fro
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MEDIAting Theology
Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt (2021), 209 pp.
"The intersection of media with theology is reciprocating: media boosts theology in its functions to inform, connect and educate; theology humbles the globalizing media with a reminder – media is in mediation but not in domination. Media and theology thus intersect at mediating (negotiating, inter
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Communicating in Ministry and Mission: An Introduction to Pastoral and Evangelizing Communication
Deep Insights
Manila: Logos (Divine Word) Publications, 4th updated ed. (2018), 319 pp.
"This edition updates and develops the concerns of the emerging field especially also in view of growing technical developments. The section on Evangelizing communication has been partly re-written to more clearly indicate the communication dimension of the field." (Preface)
Die katholische Kirche und die Medien: Einblick in ein spannungsreiches Verhältnis
Würzburg: Echter (2018), 272 pp.
"Die katholische Kirche gilt vordergründig mit ihren aufwändigen Liturgien oder einem romantisch anmutenden Klosterleben als ideale Medienreligion. Mit eigenen Zeitungsverlagen, Medienhäusern und einem beachtlichen MitarbeiterInnenstab agiert sie in der deutschen Gesellschaft selbst als Schwergew
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Religion, Communications, and Judaism: The Case of Digital Chabad
Media, Culture & Society, volume 38, issue 1 (2016), pp. 89-95
"In their article on 'Building the Sacred Community Online', Oren Golan and Nurit Stadler zoom in on the latest attempts of Chabad, the extrovert Jewish Hasidic group, to harness the newest digital technologies to propagate and popularize its staunchly traditionalist reading of Jewish heritage. Also
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Elements for the Formation of Salesians in Communication
Key Guides
Makati City - Manila: Don Bosco Press (2015), 336 pp.
"This book, not pretending to cover all issues, is divided into four complementary parts: the first puts the biblical and theological foundations of Christian communication; the second presents some significant experiences of communication developed by Don Bosco in Valdocco; the third offers some go
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Cyber/digital Theology: Rethinking About Our Relationship with God and Neighbor in the Digital Environment
Religion and Social Communication, volume 13, issue 2 (2015), pp. 132-158
Social Communication in Theological Perspective: Communication Theology
Manila: Logos (Divine Word) Publications (2015), 117 pp.
"The book presents all final statements of FABC communication meetings from 1996 to 2007, including the annual meetings of Asian communication bishops (Bishops' Meet), all six BISCOMs (Bishops' Institutes for Social Communication), and special gathering of experts (Roundtables) on Communication Rese
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Cybertheology: Thinking Christianity in the Era of the Internet
New York: Fordham University Press (2014), xiii, 137 pp.
"In this book, Fr. Antonio Spadaro, SJ, Director of the Italian Journal La Civiltà Cattolica, attempts to address a new phenomenon – Cybertheology. If theology is talking about God, Cybertheology is the way in which God is talked about on the Internet. Spadaro’s background is in literary critic
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Diretório de comunicação da Igreja no Brasil
Key Guides
Brasilia: Conferência Nacional dos Bispos do Brasil (CNBB) (2014), 189 pp.
