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Reflections on the International Association for Media and Communication Research: Many Voices, One Forum

Jörg Becker, Robin Mansell (eds.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2023), xxxvii, 558 pp.

"Established in 1957, the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) has facilitated international exchanges and research collaborations among academics, journalists, and other practitioners, addressing media and communication problems and influencing theory and practice ... more

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E o verbo se fez rede: Religiosidades em reconstrução no ambiente digital

Moisés Sbardelotto

São Paulo: Paulinas (2017), 400 pp.

"O ambiente digital emerge como um novo lócus religioso e teológico. Formam-se novas modalidades de percepção, de experiência e de expressão do "sagrado" em novos ambientes comunicacionais. E as práticas sociais no ambiente on-line, a partir de lógicas midiáticas, complexificam o fenômeno ... more

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The Media and Religious Authority

Stewart M. Hoover (ed.)

University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press (2016), viii, 296 pp.

"The contributors to The Media and Religious Authority examine the ways in which new centers of power and influence are emerging as religions seek to "brand" themselves in the media age. Putting their in-depth, incisive studies of particular instances of media production and reception in Asia, Afric ... more

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Communication Theories in a Multicultural World

Clifford Christians, Kaarle Nordenstreng (eds.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2014), xiii, 325 pp.

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Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds

Heidi A. Campbell (ed.)

Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge (2013), xi, 272 pp.

"Digital Religion offers a critical and systematic survey of the study of religion and new media. It covers religious engagement with a wide range of new media forms and highlights examples of new media engagement in all five of the major world religions. From cell phones and video games to blogs an ... more

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Media, Spiritualities and Social Change

Stewart M. Hoover, Monica Emerich (eds.)

London; New York: Continuum (2011), ix, 262 pp.

"Bringing together scholarly perspectives from around the world and across disciplines, the authors explore how 'spiritualities' express themselves through and with media - from television to Internet, from fashion to art murals - as socially transforming voices and practices. The very fluidity of t ... more

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Fundamentalisms and the Media

Stewart M. Hoover, Nadia Kaneva (eds.)

London: Continuum (2009), xii, 223 pp.

"Outside the West, religion is an ever more prominent force in social and political movements of both reform and retrenchment. Across these contexts, no issue in religion is of as much concern as fundamentalism - or rather the fundamentalisms within various traditions - which are seen to be fomentin ... more

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Key Words in Religion, Media and Culture

David Morgan (ed.)

New York; London: Routledge (2008), xv, 240 pp.

"The list of critical terms selected and explicated in this book will signal many things to readers. It will certainly indicate that the study of media and religion is broadly interdisciplinary. Before the 1980s, the field, if it even was one, was largely the domain of historians of Christianity, Ch ... more

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The International Handbook of Children, Media and Culture

Kirsten Drotner, Sonia Livingstone (eds.)

London et al.: Sage (2008), xxi, 537 pp.

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Religion in the Media Age

Stewart M. Hoover

Abingdon: Routledge (2006), 341 pp.

"Looking at the everyday interaction of religion and media in our cultural lives, Hoover's new book is a fascinating assessment of the state of modern religion. Recent years have produced a marked turn away from institutionalized religions towards more autonomous, individual forms of the search for ... more

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Encyclopedia of Religion, Communication, and Media
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Daniel A. Stout (ed.)

New York: Routledge (2006), xx, 467 pp.

"This volume breaks down disciplinary walls in numerous ways. First, it combines information about the intrapersonal, interpersonal, group, and societal levels of communication into a single resource. At the intrapersonal level, new issues are raised about communication between individuals and deity ... : Why is religious experience difficult to explain in rational terms? Why is silence more sacred than spoken prayer in some religious communities? What is the nature of “thought communication” in religious meditation? Why is the use of profanity justified in some religious circles? How does idolatry reinforce religious customs and values? Why was chanting one of the first forms of religious communication? Religious information is also exchanged between individuals at the level of interpersonal communication. This volume identifies rituals that have not been adequately analyzed in terms of communication aspects: Why do some sects require public confession? Why is body decoration an acceptable form of worship in some religious groups, but not in others? How does dance communicate the sacred through metaphoric movement? What are the multiple forms of communication with the dead? Why are feasts a form of religious worship in all major religions? How does the study of organizational communication apply to religion? This volume also aids study of mediated communication to larger groups both inside and outside religious denominations. Throughout history, technology has simultaneously aided and impeded communication processes; this also applies to religious culture: How did religion change during the historical transition from orality to literacy? How did printing contribute to the diffusion of religious values in the world? Why have religious novels grown in popularity? Is television considered a religious medium? How has the Internet affected religious congregations and communities? What is religious media literacy? These are only a few of the questions addressed by this encyclopedia. Articles also deal with (1) concepts such as information, communication, and censorship, (2) denominations which exhibit different communication practices, and (3) the various media used in religious worship. Entries were contributed by scholars from various disciplines, including religious studies, communication, anthropology, sociology, ancient studies, religion and modern culture, theology, and many others." (Introduction, page xiii-xiv) more

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Mediating Religion: Conversations in Media, Religion and Culture

Jolyon P. Mitchell, Sophia Marriage (eds.)

London; New York: T&T Clark (2003), xv, 407 pp.

"This is the first book to bring together many aspects of the interplay between religion, media and culture from around the world in a single comprehensive study. Leading international scholars provide the most up-to-date findings in their fields, and in a readable and accessible way. Some of the to ... more

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Practicing Religion in the Age of the Media: Explorations in Media, Religion, and Culture

Stewart M. Hoover, Lynn Schofield Clark (eds.)

New York: Columbia University Press (2002), 386 pp.

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Religion in the News: Faith and Journalism in American Public Discourse

Stewart M. Hoover

Thousand Oaks: Sage (1998), xi, 234 pp.

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Rethinking Media, Religion, and Culture

Stewart M. Hoover, Knut Lundby (eds.)

Thousand Oaks; London; New Delhi: Sage (1997), x, 332 pp.

"The growing connections between media, culture and religion are increasingly evident in contemporary society, but until now have rarely been theoretically linked. The contributors to this volume effectively combine these areas into a coherent whole. The issues they examine include: the decline of r ... more

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Religion and Mass Media: Audiences and Adaptations

Daniel A. Stout, Judith M. Buddenbaum (eds.)

London: Sage (1996), 294 pp.

"How do religious audiences react to and use the mass media? Religion and Mass Media is an audience-centered examination that reveals how a variety of Christian traditions experience media news and entertainment - in the context of institutional religious influences and expectations. Drawing on soci ... more

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Religion and the Media: An Introductory Reader

Chris Arthur (ed.)

Cardiff: University of Wales Press;World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) (1993), xii, 302 pp.

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Mass Media Religion: The Social Sources of the Electronic Church

Stewart M. Hoover

London: Sage (1989), 251 pp.

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