This entry discusses the intersection of the new populism, religion, and social media in contemporary society. It examines how religious beliefs and practices are being utilized by populist movements to gain support and mobilize followers on social media platforms. The reasons for the rise of ...
The media have become an important, if not primary, source of information about religious issues, and religious information and experiences become moulded according to the demands of popular media genres. As a cultural and social environment, the media have taken over many of the cultural and ...
California) is Associate Professor at the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, Arizona State University. She has published widely on the social implications of communication technologies, including religious authority and community, and is the lead editor of New Media and Intercultural Communication....
Growing access to digital technology in India has led to increased reliance on the interface between religion and social media. The Internet provides traditional religious authorities with tools with which they can reinforce their official practices and beliefs. However, the Internet is also capable of...
digital mediadigital religionidentityreligionsocial mediaThe study of digital media and gender suggests that digital tools can help break binaries and existing institutions, but also operate within existing gendered cultural systems. In the case of religious institutions and cultural systems, digital media...
Power, media and social change'Charisma' can be a catch-all term that obfuscates more than it reveals. What it does reveal often says more about the historical and cultural context in which 'charisma' was deployed than about its subject. In this introduction we trace the concept's ...
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Religion and Society(共5册), 这套丛书还有 《Religious Publishing and Print Culture in Modern China》《Buddhism and the Dynamics of Transculturality》《Religion, Power and Protest in Local Communities》《Social Media and Religious Change》 。
He loosely quotes Pope Francis, an Argentinian and the first Latin American pontiff, when he insists, “The priest and the church need to be where the people are, on social media, in the villages, in the barrios.” But even if the priests do go to those places, it is unclear that ...
In fact,most chap-tersin thebookas awholedisplaythe value of socialsciencein analyzingspecificconcepts(e.g., family;media)andpractices(e.g., conversion;fasting).Despitethechallenges in usingsocialscience,itremainsan essentialpartnerinpracticaltheol-ogy, comprisingabasicapproachto thestudyofreligionand,...