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Churches Online in Times of Corona. Die CONTOC-Studie: Empirische Einsichten, Interpretationen und Perspektiven

Thomas Schlag, Ilona Nord, Wolfgang Beck, Arnd Bünker, Georg Lämmlin, Sabrina Müller, Johann Pock, Martin Rothgangel (eds.)

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 ... more

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Towards Full Presence: A Pastoral Reflection on Engagement with Social Media

Vatican City: Dicastery for Communication (2023), 34 pp.

"The following pages are the result of a reflection involving experts, teachers, young professionals and leaders, lay persons, clergy, and religious. The aim is to address some of the main questions involving how Christians should engage social media. They are not meant to be precise “guidelines� ... more

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Vers une présence totale: Une réflexion pastorale à propos de l’engagement sur les réseaux sociaux

Cité du Vatican: Dicastère pour la Communication (2023), 36 pp.

"Les pages qui suivent sont le fruit d’une réflexion impliquant des experts, des enseignants, des jeunes professionnels et leaders, des laïcs, des membres du clergé et des religieux. L’objectif est d’aborder certaines des principales questions concernant la manière dont les chrétiens devr ... more

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Hacia una plena presencia: Reflexión pastoral sobre la interacción en las Redes Sociales

Ciudad del Vaticano: Dicasterio para la Communicación (2023), 36 pp.

"Las siguientes páginas son el resultado de una reflexión en la que han participado expertos, educadores, jóvenes profesionales y líderes, laicos, sacerdotes y religiosos. Su objetivo es afrontar algunas de las principales cuestiones relativas al modo en que los cristianos deberían participar e ... more

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Rumo à presença plena: Uma reflexão pastoral sobre a participação nas redes sociais

Cidade do Vaticano: Dicastério para a Communicação (2023), 36 pp.

"As seguintes páginas representam o resultado de uma reflexão que envolveu especialistas, professores, jovens profissionais e líderes, leigos, clérigos e religiosos. O objetivo consiste em abordar algumas das principais questões sobre o modo como os cristãos deveriam participar nas redes socia ... more

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Covid-19, Communication and Religion

Norberto González Gaitano (ed.)

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 ... more

Pastoral Communication in the Digital Age: Reality, Reflections and Response
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Joseph Anucha Chaiyadej et al.

Signis (2022), 43 pp.

"In terms of the pastoral challenges presented by ICT, this paper demonstrates the need for the Church and her pastoral leaders to skillfully and wisely navigate the realm of technology in order to put this gift granted by God to the best use. This demands that pastoral leaders and faith communicato ... more

Church Communication in the New Normal: Perspectives from Asia and Beyond
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Anthony Le Duc (ed.)

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 ... more

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The Bible, Social Media, and Digital Culture

Peter M. Phillips

New York: Routledge (2020), 129 pp.

"This book [...] examines the shift from a propositional to a therapeutic approach to faith from a sociological standpoint. The book covers two research projects in particular: the Twitter Gospels and Online Moralistic Therapeutic Deism. It explores the data as it relates to Abby Day's concept of pe ... more

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Political Islam and Global Media: The Boundaries of Religious Identity
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Noha Mellor, Khalil Hanna Rinnawi (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2016), xii, 288 pp.

"The development of new and social networking sites, as well as the growth of transnational Arab television, has triggered a debate about the rise in transnational political and religious identification, as individuals and groups negotiate this new triad of media, religion and culture. This book exa ... more

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Online Mission and Ministry: A Theological and Practical Guide

Pam Smith

New York: SPCK Publishing (2015), ix, 130 pp.

Catholic Communities Online

Miriam Díez Bosch, Josep Lluis Micó, Josep Maria Carbonell (eds.)

Barcelona: Universitat Ramon Llull, Facultat de Comunicació i Relacions Internacionals Blanquerna (2015), 109 pp.

Die Kirche in der digitalen Welt: Die Verbreitung der Frohen Botschaft

Paul Tighe

Communicatio Socialis, issue 4 (2014), pp. 483-492

"Wenn wir von der kommunikativen Mission der Kirche sprechen, sprechen wir nicht von einer Mission unter vielen. Tatsächlich sprechen wir über den fundamentalen Grund, warum die Kirche existiert. Die Kirche existiert durch den Willen Gottes und sie existiert genau zu dem Zweck, die Frohe Botschaft ... more

Jewish Cyber-Theology

Yoel Cohen

Communication Research Trends, volume 31, issue 1 (2012), pp. 4-14

"This article attempts to extrapolate from the Jewish Tradition a Jewish view on the Internet. To be contrasted are the Orthodox stream, itself broken into the ultra-Orthodox Haredi and Modern Orthodox (dati leumi), and the non-Orthodox streams, the Reform and Conservative [...] This essay will exam ... more

Catholic Approaches to the Internet

Jim McDonnell

Communication Research Trends, volume 31, issue 1 (2012), pp. 14-24