Literaturen und Medien der Religionen

Dr. Łukasz Fajfer, Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler

Finanziert durch Mittel der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) und des Nationalen Zentrums der Wissenschaft (Narodowe Centrum Nauki) im Rahmen des deutsch-polnischen Beethoven 2 Programms.

In unserem Projekt untersuchen wir, welche Rolle die modernen Medien für die religiösen Gemeinschaften heutzutage haben. Ganz konkret stehen in unserem Projekt digitale Medien (Webseiten) sowie gedrucktes Material (Zeitungen, Zeitschriften) im Fokus. Wir fragen dabei, wer für die Medienarbeit in den jeweiligen Kirchen zuständig ist, wie die Inhalte vorbereitet werden und wie die Kirchen ihre Identität in der Gegenwart verstehen.

 Prof. Dr. Kerstin Radde-Antweiler and Prof. Dr. Xenia Zeiler

The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Journalism is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, challenges, past and present global issues and debates in this exciting subject. The first collection of its kind, this volume comprises over 25 chapters by a team of international contributors. This Handbook is divided into five parts, each taking global developments in the field into account:

• Theoretical Reflections
• Power and Authority
• Conflict, Radicalization and Populism
• Dialogue and Peacebuilding
• Trends

Within these sections, central issues, debates and developments are examined, including religious and secular press; ethics; globalization; gender; datafication; differentiation; journalistic religious literacy; race and religious extremism.

This volume is essential reading for students and researchers in journalism and religious studies. This Handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as sociology, communication studies, media studies and area studies.

Hannah Grünenthal

Die katholische Kirche in Deutschland ist, entgegen gängiger Klischees, keine homogene Einheit, sondern besteht aus vielen größeren und kleineren Gruppierungen mit unterschiedlichen Themen, Schwerpunkten und Interessen. Wie positionieren sich kleine Gruppierungne in der Kirche? Welche Rolle spielen dabei die Medien?

Vít Šisler, Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Xenia Zeiler

Game studies has been an understudied area within the emerging field of digital media and religion. Video games can reflect, reject, or reconfigure traditionally held religious ideas and often serve as sources for the production of religious practices and ideas. This collection of essays presents a broad range of influential methodological approaches that illuminate how and why video games shape the construction of religious beliefs and practices, and also situates such research within the wider discourse on how digital media intersect with the religious worlds of the 21st century. Each chapter discusses a particular method and its theoretical background, summarizes existing research, and provides a practical case study that demonstrates how the method specifically contributes to the wider study of video games and religion. Featuring contributions from leading and emerging scholars of religion and digital gaming, this book will be an invaluable resource for scholars in the areas of digital culture, new media, religious studies, and game studies across a wide range of disciplines.

Edited by Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Xenia Zeiler

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 data collected in light of current mediatization theories. By directing the study to the geographical, cultural and religious contexts specific to Asia, it also provides new material for the theoretical discussion of the pros and cons of the concept mediatization, among other things interrogating whether this concept is useful in non-’Western’ contexts

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315170275

Edited by Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Xenia Zeiler

Religious topics are increasingly addressed in journalism worldwide, including newspapers, television, radio and Internet news. The high visibility of religion in society and, inseparably connected to this, the increasing reappearance of religious themes in news media have come to the attention of recent academic research as well.

This special issue offers new research material on the topic but also a new design and system of organizing the field. The novel approach of this special issue is threefold: (1) it focuses specifically and only on journalistic media; (2) it discusses a variety of religious and geographical contexts through case studies; and (3) it introduces a new structure of discussing journalism and religion by analyzing the three key concepts “sacred”, “secular” and “authority” through the lens of approach to terms as empty signifiers. The articles analyze how news media ascribe meanings to these terms