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RELIGION AND SOCIAL COMMUNICATION
Vol. 20 No. 1, 2022
Editor's Column
Deorithms- the "Rhythms" of God
Anthony Le Duc, SVD
Newly Constituted Editorial Board
Articles
Christ, Cross, and COVID-19: Words that Never Die in the New Normal Religious Communication
Norman Melchor R. Peña, Jr., SSP
Israeli Information Policy, COVID-19 and the Ultra-Orthodox Haredim
Yoel Cohen with Ahuva Spitz
SIMBAHAY: Flipping Church Service during the COVID-19 Pandemic Uncertainty
and Implications to Spirituality
Joshua Michael G. Jonas and Benjamina Paula G. Flor
Is Truthmaker Theory Sufficient to Solve the Gettier Problem?
Caiqin Liu
ESSAYS
The Future of Religion: Human Life- Education- Spirituality
Pravat Kumar Dhal
Empathy: the Key to Handle Digital Communications Post-Pandemic
Albertina Navas
In Memoriam: Thích Nhất Hạnh (1926-2022)
Thích Nhất Hạnh and Socially Engaged Buddhism
Shiju Paul, SVD
BOOK REVIEW
Religion’s Sudden Decline: What’s Causing it, and What Comes Next?
Reviewer: Fumihiko Matsumoto
The End(s) of Religion: A History of How the Study of Religion Makes Religion
Irrelevant.
Eric Bain-Selbo
How God Works: The Science Behind the Benefits of Religion.
David DeSteno.
Ecclesiology for a Digital Church: Theological Reflections on a New Normal.
Heidi A. Campbell and John Dyer (Eds).
The full PDF version can be found here.
Vol. 19 No. 2, 2021
Editor’s Column
Religious Communication amid the Pandemic
Anthony Le Duc, SVD
Articles
Impact of COVID-19 on Digital Religious Communication among
Syro-Malabar Catholics of South India
Robin Xavier, Mariot Jose Panjikaran, Angel Treasa Alex
and Nandini Lakshmikantha
Global Responses to Neighborhood Change in the COVID-19 Pandemic
and the Philippine Church’s Reception
Rico C. Jacoba
Religious Social Capital and Support in the Social Integration of Catholic Migrants in Vietnam
Thu Huong Hoang, Thi Ngoc Anh Nguyen and Phuong Thanh Bui
"Tengaw” Observance: The Kankanaey’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Brandon Billan Cadingpal
The Search for Meaning and Values in the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond:
Paradigm Shifts in Communicating the Joy of the Gospel
Christina Kheng
Essays
Ecclesial Communion: It Takes a Pandemic
John Patrick Murray, OSA
Digi-Mission: You Will Be My Witnesses to the Ends of the Earth (Acts 1:8)
Clement Baffoe, SVD
The full PDF version can be found here.
Vol. 19 No. 1, 2021
Editor’s Column
Religious Engagement in the Covid-19 Pandemic
Anthony Le Duc, SVD
In Memoriam: Franz-Josef Eilers, SVD, PhD (1932-2021)
Kenneth E. Rayco
Catholic Liturgical Teleparticipation Before and During the Pandemic, and Questions for the New Normal
Leo-Martin Angelo R. Ocampo
Shaping Future Pastoral Leaders with Desirable Pastoral Skills in the Vietnam Church
Joseph Nguyen Manh Ha, OP
The Concept of Pluralistic Society in Qur’anic Perspectives
Sulaiman Rifal
The Communicative Role of Camillian Chaplains in their Pastoral Ministry
during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Vince Henry M. Salles
Muslim Youth and State Building: Challenges and Opportunities
Aina-Obe Shamsuddin Bolatito
Full PDF version can be found here.
Vol. 18 No. 2, 2020
John Hick’s Critical Realism Approach in the Digital Milieu
Fumihiko Matsumoto
Promiscuous Teleological Reasoning: A Pseudo Logical Reasoning
Morad Nazari
Mission as Dialogue with Vietnamese Culture: The Vietnamness -- Vietnamese Theology
Michael Nguyen, svd
What is Good about Digital Technology in Discipling Youth
Vo Huong Nam
Analysis of the Malayalam Films “EE. MA. YAU” and “AMEN” on the Basis of
Regional Culture and Religion in South Indian Context
Smitha Elsy Sebastian and Unni Krishnan K
The Full PDF version can be found here.
Vol. 18 No. 1, 2020
The Call of the Digital Age for Lay Participation: An Answer to Transparency of the Church
Brang Mai Lazing
Q.R. Codes of Deities: Digital Media @ the Service of Religion in Taiwan
Paulin Batairwa Kubuya
L. Keith Neigenfind, Jr.
Paradox of COVID-19: Communication Opened, Religion Closed and Social Distanced and Its Implications
Sebastian Periannan
The full PDF version can be found here.
Vol. 17 No. 2, 2019
Rico C. Jacoba
Types of Communication Strategies in Jainism: A Study of Jain Mendicants, Educators and Lay Persons
Bhumi Shah
Frederick F. Prevosa
The full PDF version can be found here.
Vol. 17 No. 1, 2019
The Effect of Digital Development on Church and Society in Southeast Asia: A Survey
Anthony Le Duc
Intercultural Communication in a Digital World
Franz Josef Eilers
Religious Communities in the Digital Era: Dynamic of “Believing” and “Belonging”
Gnana Patrick
Engaging Pope Francis’ Laudato Si in the Discourse on Environmental Communication
Jeramie N. Molino
South Asian Voice of Changing Hindu Religious Contour and Digital Media
Binod C. Agrawal
The full PDF version can be found here.
Vol. 16 No. 2, 2018
Digital Expressions, Experiences and Challenges of and for Religions in Asia
Leo-Martin Angelo R. Ocampo
Religion in Development Communication: An Inexorable Concept
Stanislaus Irudayaselvam
The Role of Inclusive Language in an Inter-religious Dialogue and Communications
Rico C. Jacoba and Jeramie N. Molino
The full PDF version can be found here.
Vol. 16 No. 1, 2018
Religion and Social Communication in Asia: Towards a Research Agenda
Franz-Josef Eilers, svd
The Way, the Truth and the Life: Asian Religious Communication in the Post-Truth Climate
Anthony Le Duc, svd
Thai Cultural Signs and Symbols for Pastoral Communication
Amornkit Prompakdee
Resilience as a Growing Trend in Communication Research--Its Relation to Asian Religions
Jose S. Destura, Jr.
Virtual Space and Inter/Intra-religious Dialogue
Gnana Patrick
The full PDF version can be found here.
Vol. 15 No. 2, 2017
Hindu Sanatan Dharma and Digital Media Adaptation in South Asia
Binod C. Agrawal
Buddhist Communication of the True Roots of the Ecological Crisis
Anthony Le Duc, svd
Communication Documents from and for Religions: Christianity
Franz-Josef Eilers, svd
The full PDF version can be found here.
Vol. 15 No. 1, 2017
Religions and the Digital World of Asia: Some Considerations
Franz-Josef Eilers, svd
G. Patrick
Digital Church in the 21st Century: A Case Study from India
Leslin Bastian
Muslim Religious Publics in Online and the Diasporic Malayali Muslims
in the United Arab Emirates: An Ethnographic Study
Ahammed Junain, NP
Goddess of the Nation: Semi-religious Iconography in the Digital Age
Unni Krishnan K
Language, Printing, Art and Education in the History of Early Christianity in the Philippines
Kenneth E. Rayco
The full PDF can be found here.
Vol. 14 No. 2, 2016
How to Communicate in the Age of Web 4.0? Challenges and Possibilities for Religions in Asia
Leo-Martin R. Ocampo
Buddhist Environmentalism in the Digital Age
Anthony Le Duc, svd
A Study on the Usage of Online Media in Selected Temples in South Asia
Padma Rani
Multi-Religious Expressions of Non-Christian Students in a Christian School: the Digital Dimension
Jose S. Destura, Jr and Nelson V. Arnante
Sebastian Periannan
Vol. 14 No.1, 2016
Digitizing—The New Sanskritizing
Chandrabhanu Pattanayak
Abdur Razzaque Khan
‘Networked’ Religion in Network Society: The Case of Swaminarayan Sect
Mira and Kapil Desai
The Role of Multimedia in Islamic Teaching Propaganda (Da’wah): An Indonesian Experience
Gunawan Adnan
Vol. 13 No. 2, 2015
Religion in the Digital Space: Exploring its Dynamics with Reference to the Asian Context
G. Patrick
Anthony Le Duc, svd
Komal Shah
Binod C. Agrawal
Vol. 13 No.1, 2015
Playing with the Gods: The Making and Un-making of the Baba
Chandrabhanu Pattanayak
Impact of New Communication Technology on the Shias of South Asia
Nadeem Husnain
Keval J. Kumar
Religious Aspects of Chinese New Year Celebration
John Mi Shen
New Media to Promote Religious Communication in Jainism: An Exploratory Study
Komal Shah
Social Media Use in Religious Communication: The Christian Migrants of Kerala, India
Leslin Bastian
Communication, Culture and Buddhism in Asia: Structural Adaptation and Integration of Digital Media
Binod C. Agrawal
Vol. 12 No.1, 2014
Competence in Social Communication and Religion A Christian Perspective
Franz-Josef Eilers, svd
Mythology and Society Continuum: A Study of An Indian Television Serial
Arbind Sinha
Gnana Patrick
Influences of Religious Telecast in Multi-religious India
Binod C. Agrawal
Religion, Culture and the ‘New’ Social Media in India: Critical Perspectives
Keval J. Kumar
Challenges for Religious Communication in New Social Status and Cultural Forms in Vietnamese Context
Anh Vu Ta
Vol. 11 No.2, 2013
Social Communication and Religion
Franz-Josef Eilers, svd
Communication Technology Impacts Thai Culture and Buddhist Way of Life
Samran Khansamrong
Religion and Social Communication in Changing Cultures of Asia: An Anthropological Perspective
S.M. Michael, svd
The Rediscovery of Religious Silence in the Social Media Era: A Korean Case
Ignatius Kim Min-Soo
An Act of Faith: From the Spiritual to the Ritual
Chandrabhanu Pattanayak
Methods of Dhamma Preaching in Lanna
P.B. Saneh Ñānamedhī
Sufism: Religious Change in the Medieval Deccan (India)
Jagadeesh Kivudanavar
Vol. 11 No.1, 2013
Binod C. Agrawal
Exploring the Diegesis of the Haridasi Kirtan--A Critical Study
Sanjay Ranade
Jainism: Its Philosophical Tradition and Its Re-adaptation through Media and Communication
Komal Shah
Media and Sikh Religion: An Indian Perspective
B.S. Bhatia
Kiran Thakur and Achyut Vaze
Vol. 10 No.2, 2012
Asian Research Center for Religion and Social Communication: Origin and Activities
Franz-Josef Eilers, svd
The Communication Signatures of Religion - Re-evented in a Social Media Environment?
Thomas A. Bauer
Jesus Christ as Communicator: A Biblical Perspective
Lucien Legrand, mep
Unfolding Religious Communication System: A Methodological Approach
Sebastian Periannan
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