[ecrea] CFP: God`s message – human language Possibilities and limits of the media

God`s message – human language
Possibilities and limits of the media
International Conference
Ružomberok, April 28th – 30th 2014

The Departement of Journalism of the Faculty of Philosophy at the 
Catholic University in Ružomberok, along with ECREA Media and Religion 
TGW and the Pontifical University Santa Croce in Rome are organizing an 
international Conference. The Conference will take place as part of a 
worldwide professional discussion about religion, media and language. 
Journalsts, theologians, linguists and professionals from other fields 
are invited to this Conference, as well as members of the wider public.
Academic papers, that will be published after the Conference, will form 
part of the workshop sections :

   1. Gospel Message in Media
   2. Religious Linguistic Style
   3. Launch social networks! Cast your nets for a catch!

Abstracts should be sent by February 28th 2014 by e-mail to 
(terezia.roncakova /at/ ku.sk)
Information about the results (accepted applications) will be announced 
by March 5th 2014.
The complete papers should be arrive by March 11th 2014.
Venue of the Conference – Library of the Catholic University of 
Ružomberok (28 – 29 Apríl 2014)
Registration fee: 30 Euros for active participants and 5 Euros for 
pasíve participants. Information about accomodation and food are 
available on the website of the Conference: religionmedia.ku.sk
Gospel Message in Media
Facilitators: Terézia Roncáková, Rastislav Dluhý

During the upsurge of mass-media in the 20th Century, the Church 
constantly searched for ways of using this „wonderful means“ to fulfill 
its fundamental mission. Communicators active in the ecclesial and media 
world have gradually acquired experience and altered their previous 
over-optimistic aims.
However there still remain questions about what possibilities the media 
have for evangelistic outreach and in what ways the Gospel can be 
conveyed by the media. In addition, there is still much media bias 
towards the world of religion and vice versa.
Religious Linguistic Style
Facilitators: Jozef Mlacek, Pavel Izrael

The various forms of religious communication include homiletics, 
liturgy, prayer, official ecclesial documents and religious literature 
and publications. In the Slovak arena of the science of linguistics, an 
interesting disscussion has been going on about this sphere of 
communication: its styles, substyles and intermediate categories and 
their variety of stylisticaly significant characteristics.
Launch social networks! Cast your nets for a catch!
Facilitators: Imrich Gazda, Peter Kravcák

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube. Today the influence of social networks is 
everywhere. Evangelization and pastoral work in the digital world have 
become one of our biggest challenges. Popes Francis and Benedict XVI not 
only devoted some of their messages on World Days of Communication to 
these means but they also started actively using Twitter. Evangelizing 
the digital continent is now a part of the ministry not only of lay 
believers but also of some Cardinals. How can we implement Jesus’ call 
to "cast our nets for a catch?" on the Internet?

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