The Journal Tropos: Comunicação, Cultura e Sociedade (https://periodicos.ufac.br/index.php/tropos/index ) in partnership with the academic site Mídia, Religião e Sociedade announces the Call for papers for the special issue “Media, religion and religiosities in the Age of Digitalization”.
Guest editors: Dr. Marco Túlio de Sousa (UEMG, Brazil), Dra. Mihaela Alexandra Tudor (CORHIS-UPVMIII, France) and Dra. Giulia Evolvi (EUR, The Netherlands)
Suggested title for the call: “Media, religion and religiosity in the digital age”
Full paper submission: 22/06/2020 – 20/12/2020
The issue will be published in July 2021
The religious world has always been connected with the media. Historically, the emergence of new media has always implied transformations in the relationship between religious sphere and society, changes in how the followers and faithful of a religion profess it and institutions carry out their practices and position themselves in the public sphere (HORSFIELD, 2015).
This special issue of Tropos: Comunicação, Cultura e Sociedade in partnership with the academic website Mídia, Religião e Sociedade aims to host theoretical and empirical articles related addressing the complex relationships between media, digitalization, religion and religiosity. It is expected to receive contributions that address, preferably, but not only, the following subjects:
* Reconfiguration of religious practices (rituals, liturgies etc) in digital media
* Religious organizations in digital media: projects, products
* Creation of religious groups in digital media
* The religious authority on the Internet
* Religious, politics and Internet
* Religion, entertainment and Internet
* Religion and games
* Religion, gender and sexuality online
* The development of religious communities and identities online
* Journalism and religion in digital media
* Religious conflicts in digital media
* Spirituality in online environments
* Hate speeches, religious intolerance and digital media
* Fakenews, religion and digital media
* Religious tolerance, ecumenism and digital media
* The circulation of the religious online
* Mediatization and religion / religiosities and spiritualities online
* Digital technology and the religious and spiritual dimension
* Digital games, movies and religion
* Artificial Intelligence and Religion
* Technological imagery and religion
References
BRATOSIN, Stefan. TUDOR. Mihaela Alexandra. The Romanian Religious Media Landscape: Between Secularization and the Revitalization of Religion. In : Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture, 7, 2018, 223-250.
CAMPBELL, Heidi (org.). The Distanced Church: Reflections on Doing Church Online. Digital Religion Publications An Imprint of the Network for New Media, Religion & Digital Culture Studies, 2020.
CUNHA, Magali Nascimento. Elucidações contemporâneas nos estudos brasileiros em mídia e religião: a perspectiva das mediações culturais e comunicacionais. Famecos. Porto Alegre, v. 23, n. 2, maio, junho, julho e agosto de 2016.
EVOLVI, Giulia. Blogging My Religion Secular, Muslim, and Catholic Media Spaces in Europe. Routledge: New York, 2019.
GOMES, Pedro Gilberto. Da Igreja Eletrônica à sociedade em midiatização. São Paulo: Paulinas, 2010.
HOOVER, Stewart. Mídia e religião: premissas e implicações para os campos acadêmico e midiático. Comunicação e Sociedade – São Bernardo do Campo, v. 35, n. 2, p. 41-68, jan./jun. 2014
HORSFIELD, Peter. From Jesus to the Internet: A History of Christianity and Media. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2015
LÖVHEIM, Mia, LUNDMARK, Evelina. Gender, Religion and Authority in Digital Media. ESSACHESS. Journal for Communication Studies, 12(24): 23-38, 2019.
MARTINO, Luís Mauro Sá. Like a Prayer: articulações da cultura pop na mediatização da religião. In: Simone Pereira Sá; Rodrigo Carreirõ; Rogério Ferraz. (Org.). Cultura POP – Livro Compós 2015. 1ed.Salvador: Ed. UFBA, 2015, v. 1, p. 57-72.
SOUSA, Marco Túlio de. Rezando pelo smartphone: reconfigurações de práticas religiosas em um grupo de oração católico pelo WhatsApp. Revista Fronteiras – Estudos Midiáticos. Unisinos, São Leopoldo, vol. 20, n. 2, p. 217-230, mai./ago 2018.
SOUSA, Marco Túlio de; ROSA, Ana Paula da. Faith, entertainment, and conflicts on the Camino de Santiago (The Way of St. James): a case study on the mediatization of 23 Revista Tropos: Comunicação, Sociedade e Cultura, v.8, nº 2, edição de Dezembro de 2019 the pilgrimage experience on Facebook groups. In: ESSACHESS – Journal for Communication Studies, v. 10, p. 145-170, 2017.
TUDOR, Mihaela Alexandra., HERTELIU, Agnos. “The usages of Internet and new media by the Romanian Seventh-day Adventist clergy”, Journal for the study of Religions and Ideologies, vol. 15, 45, 2016, p. 207-233.
Questions can be sent to the following mail: midiareligiaos@gmail.com.
