Thesis (D. Min.)--Harding Graduate School of Religion, 1990. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 106-113).

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This study aims to show how the religious worldview of the christian gaming site Geeks under Grace shapes their view on videogames and gaming culture. The goal is to understand the material through Hjarvards theories of mediatization of religion (2011), more specifically the aspects ”Media as language” and ”Media as Enviroment”. The following research questions are formulated to conduit this research: ”How do the authors and editors behind the website Geeks under Grace use religion and religious terms in understanding video games?” and ”How can the website Geeks under Grace be understood based on the dynamics ”Media as language” and ”media as environment”, according to the perspective mediatization of religion”. Through textual analysis of video game reviews and essays about christianity and gaming the study shows an individualistic form for christianity present in the material. Furthermore, it shows how the website makes frames and environments where they combine elements from both the world of gaming and the world of christianity to try to make a sense of belonging, and at the same time try to teach religious values through the use of videogames.

Uma análise comunicacional da explosão gospel e sua expressão entre os diferentes segmentos do cenário religioso evangélico contemporâneo no Brasil é o objeto deste trabalho. Inicialmente um movimento musical, o gospel explodiu na última década do século XX entre os evangélicos e deu forma a um modo de vida configurado pela tríade música-consumo e entretenimento. Esse modo de vida se expressa, especialmente, em novas formas de culto religioso e na relativização da ética protestante restritiva de costumes. A referida tríade é caracterizada pelas transformações advindas do reprocessamento das culturas das mídias, urbana e de mercado entre os evangélicos e da busca de superação da crise entre protestantismo e sociedade que tem marcado a história deste segmento no Brasil. Entretanto, a análise embasada nos estudos culturais e nas ciências da religião revelou que esses traços de modernidade da cultura gospel estão entrecruzados com a tradição, com a conservação de traços da identidade protestante no Brasil como o dualismo igreja vs. mundo, o individualismo, o intimismo religioso, o sectarismo, a rejeição da diversidade de manifestações culturais e religiosas, o antiecumenismo e o antiintelectualismo. O estudo sobre este encontro do antigo com o novo, do tradicional com o moderno remete à compreensão da cultura gospel como uma cultura híbrida. Uma estratégia de adaptação à modernidade e suas expressões hegemônicas - seja o pentecostalismo, no campo religioso, ou o capitalismo globalizado no campo sócio-histórico -com a garantia de preservação da expressão cultural religiosa tradicionalista, já conhecida e aprovada no "coração das igrejas". O hibridismo é aqui compreendido como criação estéril, uma modernidade de superfície passível de tensões: o "vinho novo em odres velhos". / This study is a communicational analysis of the gospel explosion and how that explosion is currently expressed amidst the different segments that are part of the contemporary Protestant religious scenario in Brazil. Initially a musical movement, this evangelical movement referred to as gospel, in the last decade of 20th century Brazil, has assumed three additional components that ultimately define it and shape its lifestyle: music, consumer consumption, and entertainment. This new life form is expressed in new ways of worship as well as the relativization of the restrictive Protestant behavioral ethic. These three additional elements arise as a result of the re-elaboration of three distinct cultures; the media, the urban world and the Protestant market and are a result of the search to overcome the history of tension between the Brazilian Protestant community and Brazilian society. However, based on cultural studies and the studies of religious sciences, we see that the modernity expressed in the current gospel culture maintains certain conservative Protestant characteristics such as the dualism between Church and the World, individualism, personal religious experience, sectarianism, and the rejection of cultural and religious diversity and as such is anti-ecumenical and anti-intellectual. As with any study of the old and the new, traditional and modern, we see that gospel culture is a hybrid culture; a strategic adaptation to modernity and its hegemonic expressions ? be it Pentecostalism, in the realm of religion, or globalized capitalism in the socio-historic realm. But what seems at first shaped by modernity, gospel, in fact, only appears modern while in reality continues to secure traditional Protestant characteristics in order to preserve its own culture. Hybridism, in this case, is not new and dynamic as the word might suggest, but a sterile creation, a modern face under which lie the same tensions: ?New wine into old wineskins.?

Syftet med föreliggande studie är att undersöka hur hinsides människors samvaro med den fysiska människan gestaltas i serien Hemsökt: övernaturliga upplevelser. Medieanalysens resultat utförs ur ett multimodalt perspektiv. Serien är multimodal vilket betyder att flera modaliteter samspelar för att få effekt för ett kommunikativt syfte i hur hinsides människors samvaro gestaltas. I resultatet förekommer det semiotiska resurser i modaliteterna miljö och föremål, kommunikation, fysisk gestaltning av hinsides människan, kamerans position och rörelse, ljus och bild samt ljud och musik som leder till tolkningen att serien som multimodal formar en fiktion så pass nära en människas vardag som om fiktionen blir en skildring av verkligheten. Resultatet diskuteras sedan mot teorin medialisering som beskriver att västvärldens människor har media som den primära källan om information och kunskap i hur världen fungerar. Serien Hemsökt: övernaturliga upplevelser, utifrån teorin medialisering, bevisar att paranormala händelser är mer accepterat och en mer accepterad uppfattning om vad som händer utanför livet som de existentiella frågorna inte når.

Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of Comparative Religion, 2004. / Title from second page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 64-77).

Uma análise comunicacional da explosão gospel e sua expressão entre os diferentes segmentos do cenário religioso evangélico contemporâneo no Brasil é o objeto deste trabalho. Inicialmente um movimento musical, o gospel explodiu na última década do século XX entre os evangélicos e deu forma a um modo de vida configurado pela tríade música-consumo e entretenimento. Esse modo de vida se expressa, especialmente, em novas formas de culto religioso e na relativização da ética protestante restritiva de costumes. A referida tríade é caracterizada pelas transformações advindas do reprocessamento das culturas das mídias, urbana e de mercado entre os evangélicos e da busca de superação da crise entre protestantismo e sociedade que tem marcado a história deste segmento no Brasil. Entretanto, a análise embasada nos estudos culturais e nas ciências da religião revelou que esses traços de modernidade da cultura gospel estão entrecruzados com a tradição, com a conservação de traços da identidade protestante no Brasil como o dualismo igreja vs. mundo, o individualismo, o intimismo religioso, o sectarismo, a rejeição da diversidade de manifestações culturais e religiosas, o antiecumenismo e o antiintelectualismo. O estudo sobre este encontro do antigo com o novo, do tradicional com o moderno remete à compreensão da cultura gospel como uma cultura híbrida. Uma estratégia de adaptação à modernidade e suas expressões hegemônicas - seja o pentecostalismo, no campo religioso, ou o capitalismo globalizado no campo sócio-histórico -com a garantia de preservação da expressão cultural religiosa tradicionalista, já conhecida e aprovada no "coração das igrejas". O hibridismo é aqui compreendido como criação estéril, uma modernidade de superfície passível de tensões: o "vinho novo em odres velhos". / This study is a communicational analysis of the gospel explosion and how that explosion is currently expressed amidst the different segments that are part of the contemporary Protestant religious scenario in Brazil. Initially a musical movement, this evangelical movement referred to as gospel, in the last decade of 20th century Brazil, has assumed three additional components that ultimately define it and shape its lifestyle: music, consumer consumption, and entertainment. This new life form is expressed in new ways of worship as well as the relativization of the restrictive Protestant behavioral ethic. These three additional elements arise as a result of the re-elaboration of three distinct cultures; the media, the urban world and the Protestant market and are a result of the search to overcome the history of tension between the Brazilian Protestant community and Brazilian society. However, based on cultural studies and the studies of religious sciences, we see that the modernity expressed in the current gospel culture maintains certain conservative Protestant characteristics such as the dualism between Church and the World, individualism, personal religious experience, sectarianism, and the rejection of cultural and religious diversity and as such is anti-ecumenical and anti-intellectual. As with any study of the old and the new, traditional and modern, we see that gospel culture is a hybrid culture; a strategic adaptation to modernity and its hegemonic expressions ? be it Pentecostalism, in the realm of religion, or globalized capitalism in the socio-historic realm. But what seems at first shaped by modernity, gospel, in fact, only appears modern while in reality continues to secure traditional Protestant characteristics in order to preserve its own culture. Hybridism, in this case, is not new and dynamic as the word might suggest, but a sterile creation, a modern face under which lie the same tensions: ?New wine into old wineskins.?

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The dissertation thesis called "Polish catholic Radio Maryja" deals with phenomenon of the polish radio Maryja. This radio has specific position between the others catholic media. In some cases it is impossible to compare it with any other polish radio stations. For more than 18 years radio Maryja is ruled by charismatic priest - father Tadeusz Rydzyk and it has indispensable impact on the socio-political events in Poland. Around the radio grew hardly controlled, isolated society - conglomerate of various media, institutions, foundations, movements and educational establishments. Members of the conglomerate (up to six millions) have created unique group involvement which is connected not only by common thinking about religious tasks, but also by idea about common causes. The dissertation thesis called "Catholic Radio Maryja" describes history of the radio and the conglomerate and analyze the content of transmission "Unfinished conversations" by using the qualitative content analysis. It tries to collect - from the radio point of view - positive and negative values which represent "the good" and "the evil" in actual social tasks.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wollongong, 2009. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references: p. 279-288.