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Religion, Media and the Public Sphere

A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444). This special issue belongs to the section "Religions and Humanities/Philosophies".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 June 2023) | Viewed by 2421

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Brian Robert Calfano

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Departments of Political Science and Journalism, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0375, USA
Interests: religion and politics; political behavior; comparative studies; political reporting; media and politics
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Media and religion are two sectors that affect all individuals in society (whether they are media consumers or religious adherents). Both religion and media exert their greatest impact on the public sphere. Media's influence is multifaceted, and often dependent on the willingness of audiences to rely on information sources that align with preexisting opinions. Meanwhile, religion motivates believers to engage in public political actions animated by religious perspectives across an array of policy issues. Combined, media and religion offer people opportunities to insulate their social contacts and perspectives in ways that create strong group identity boundaries that highlight ingroup and outgroup differences. The complexity of the empirical puzzles media and religion present make for intriguing possibilities in new scholarship. This Special Issue of Religions will feature papers broadly related to questions addressing the intersection of media and religion and its impacts on public and political outcomes. Authors may treat religion and media as dependent or independent variables, and may use data in a quantitative or qualitative form. The area of focus is open, and comparative case studies are especially encouraged. Brian Calfano, professor of journalism and political science at the University of Cincinnati, will serve as the issue editor.

Prof. Dr. Brian Robert Calfano
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • religious broadcasting
  • televangelists
  • public policy
  • voting
  • identity
  • digital religion

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Gaining Instead of Losing: The Image of Dunhuang as a Religious Heritage in a WeChat Mini-Programme
by Zhuyun Song
Religions 2023, 14(5), 634; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14050634 - 09 May 2023
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In 2020, a WeChat mini-programme called the Dunhuang E-Tour (云游敦煌) was launched during the COVID-19 pandemic to showcase one of China’s most important religious heritage sites, the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes (also known as the Dunhuang Caves), and it attracted a considerable number of [...] Read more.
In 2020, a WeChat mini-programme called the Dunhuang E-Tour (云游敦煌) was launched during the COVID-19 pandemic to showcase one of China’s most important religious heritage sites, the Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes (also known as the Dunhuang Caves), and it attracted a considerable number of online tourists. Unlike the colonial image of Dunhuang in Chinese public discourse, the mini-programme does not focus on Dunhuang’s history; rather, it provides a dynamic and interactive representation of Dunhuang’s religious murals, painted sculptures and cave architecture. To reflect the impact of the mini-programme’s digital mechanisms on users’ experience, this study adopts an analytical framework that combines the walkthrough method and religious tourist perspectives to explore the image of the digital Dunhuang and how it was shaped. The analysis finds that the functions of the Dunhuang E-Tour create a culturally rich image of Dunhuang, which subverts its decades-long Dunhuang image as a site of loss in Chinese public discourse. This difference in images mirrors the potential impact of China’s recent cultural policy of ‘cultural confidence’ in relation to its cultural and creative industries. Full article
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