[Commlist] CFP: Digital visibilities of the religious

Call for papers: “Digital visibilities of the religious”

Issue of the scientific journal "Recherches en communication"

Coordinators of the issue: Andrea Catellani (UCLouvain), David Douyère 
(University of Tours), Olivier Servais (UCLouvain)

See the complete call for papers on the website of the scientific 
journal “Recherches en communication”: 
http://sites.uclouvain.be/rec/index.php/rec/announcement/view/203

The religious process uses any material form to communicate the presence 
of absent or transcendent entities and to enable a relationship to be 
established with them, and to organize the regime of action that results 
from this relationship. With the computerization of society and the 
development of exchanges by digital means, it also mobilizes signs of 
its own dynamics on the networks. The present issue therefore aims to 
investigate the forms of digital expression and visibility of the 
religious and the reasons for their digital expansion.

These forms of visibility can be carried out by devotees (Favret-Saada, 
2017), activists or set up by religious institutions and movements of 
different types. We will look at the speeches, images, digital devices 
and ergonomics that develop the proposed religious service, as well as 
the economic and socio-political contexts that can motivate, explain or 
underpin these communications, always within the framework of a vision 
focused on information and communication. Finally, we will also look at 
the practices (Jonveaux, Duteil-Ogata, forthcoming) of production and 
mobilization of these devices, as well as their theorizations.

The proposals for articles may therefore be part of one (or more) of the 
following axes:

1. Religious digital media and devices
2. Discourses, textbooks and theorizations of religious digital technology
3. Religious digital actors
4. Digital religious action
5. Religious institutions and the digital world
6. Religions and socio-political mobilization of digital technology
7. New religions on the Internet
8. Criticism of online religions: parodies and misappropriations.

The articles will include, in addition to a presentation of the 
methodology adopted, the field of scientific insertion and the 
theoretical contexts mobilized, a presentation of the corpus (websites, 
applications, videos, sound sequences, etc.) or the field studied, or 
the theoretical and epistemological proposal made, and an indication of 
the researcher's position with regard to the object or confession 
studied, for the sake of scientific integrity. Particular emphasis will 
be placed on clarity of enunciation, including theoretical and 
conceptual clarity, accuracy of data (and modes of data acquisition) and 
accuracy of data processing.

        Procedures for responding to the call for articles

Interested researchers are invited to submit the full version of their 
paper (maximum 30,000 characters) on the journal's website by January 
15, 2020.
Link for submitting a paper: 
http://sites.uclouvain.be/rec/index.php/rec/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions 


The answer will be given no later than two months after the submission.

Articles may be submitted in French or English.

Articles submitted and accepted for publication in this dossier are 
published one by one on the site, at the time of their completion, 
without waiting for the entire dossier to be ready for publication.

Instructions for writing the article: maximum 30,000 characters per 
article (spaces and references included, abstract and keywords not 
included), if possible with illustrations (royalty-free). The complete 
presentation procedures are available on the website: 
http://sites.uclouvain.be/rec/index.php/rec/about/submissions



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