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From Living in the Shadows to Facebook Livestreams: The Impact of Social Media on Current Mediumship Practice of Mother Goddesses Worship (Dao Mâu) in Vietnam
Religion and Social Communication, volume 23, issue 2 (2025), pp. 451-473
"This paper explores the transformative impact of social media on mediumship practice within the context of Mother Goddesses worship (Dao Mâu) in contemporary Vietnam. By examining the ways in which spirit mediums and practitioners utilise social media platforms, the study reveals that these digita
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Confucian Values and Their Contemporary Applications on Social Media
Religion and Social Communication, volume 23, issue 2 (2025), pp. 281-302
"This research explores the ethical implications of using social media and fostering interfaith dialogue across religious traditions and cultures, utilizing Confucian principles as a framework for analysis. This research delves into the nuanced exploration of the Confucian Golden Rule within the Ana
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A Dalit religion online: Clashing sensoryscapes and remote ethnographies behind the screen
Dialectical Anthropology, volume 48 (2024), pp. 83-112
"A Bengali Dalit religion called Matua emerged in the nineteenth century in East Bengal. It counts tens of millions of followers across the Bay of Bengal and the Indo–Bangladesh border. With the COVID-19 pandemic, Matua religious gatherings were shifted online. This paper asks what happened to mul
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The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion
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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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Religion in der digitalen Gesellschaft: Wenn der Papst twittert
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2024), 354 pp.
"Wie bedeutsam ist Religion noch für uns - gerade in einer Zeit, in der viele institutionelle Religionen immer mehr ihrer Mitglieder verlieren? Christina Behler nimmt die digitale Gesellschaft als Ausgangspunkt und liefert eine detaillierte Analyse der Twitter-Aktivität von Papst Franziskus. Auf G
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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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A Text Mining Content Analysis Tool for Christian Faith-Based Media Institutions’ Production
Nairobi: Strathmore University, Master Thesis (2023), xiv, 71 pp.
"This research is proposing a new approach for the faith-based media institutions in the creation and production of content. The solution proposed by this research is a text mining content analysis tool that uses data mining techniques including Association, Clustering and Classification in the disc
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Discord or Dialogue: Religious Authorities on Twitter in Iraq, Lebanon, and Sudan
Metn: Samir Kassir Foundation (2023), 33 pp.
Russian Church in the Digital Era: Mediatization of Orthodoxy
Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge (2022), xii, 224 pp.
"Has Russia abandoned its atheist past and embraced Orthodox Christianity as its new moral guide? The reality is more complex and contradictory. Digital sources provide evidence of rising domestic criticism of the Russian Orthodox Church and its leadership. This book offers a nuanced understanding o
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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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Sacred Texts and Digital Culture
Postscripts, volume 12, issue 1 (2021), 146 pp.
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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Comunicação, linguagens e religiões: Tendências e perspectivas na pesquisa
Londrina: Syntagma Editores (2020), 446 pp.
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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Mediatized Religion in Asia: Studies on Digital Media and Religion
London; New York: Routledge (2019), xv, 231 pp.
"This edited volume discusses mediatized religion in Asia, examining the intensity and variety of constructions and processes related to digital media and religion in Asia today. Individual chapters present case studies from various regions and religious traditions in Asia, critically discussing the
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Hinduism and Hindu nationalism online
London ; New York: Routledge (2019), viii, 181 pp.
"This study surveys a wide range of propaganda, websites and social media in which definitions of Hinduism are debated. In particular, it focuses on the role of Hindu nationalism in the presentation and management of Hinduism in the electronic public sphere. Hindu nationalist parties and individuals
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New Media and the Mediatisation of Religion: An African Perspective
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2018), xi, 173 pp.
Buddhism, the Internet, and Digital Media: The Pixel in the Lotus
New York: Routledge, paperback ed. (2018), viii, 232 pp.
"Contributors consider the ways Buddhism plays a role and is present in digital media through a variety of methods including concrete case studies, ethnographic research, and content analysis, as well as interviews with practitioners and cyber-communities. In addition to considering Buddhism in the
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Digital Judaism: Jewish Negotiations with Digital Media and Culture
London; New York: Routledge (2017), vi, 213 pp.
"In this volume, contributors consider the ways that Jewish communities and users of new media negotiate their uses of digital technologies in light of issues related to religious identity, community and authority. Digital Judaism presents a broad analysis of how and why various Jewish groups negoti
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