*CFP* "MEDIA, RELIGION AND RELIGIOSITIES IN THE AGE OF DIGITALIZATION", SPECIAL ISSUE, TROPOS: COMUNICAÇÃO, CULTURA E SOCIEDADE

The Journal Tropos: Comunicação, Cultura e Sociedade 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”

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

Deadline full paper submission: 20/12/2020

The issue will be published in July 2021

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