[Commlist] CfP: Media, Religion and Religiosities in the Age of Digitalization”/Journal Tropos: Comunicação, Cultura e Sociedade

Dear Nico,

Could you disseminate please this Cfp. Thank you very much. All the 
best, Stefan


Tropos: Comunicação, Cultura e Sociedad 
(https://periodicos.ufac.br/index.php/tropos/index ) 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)

Full paper submission: 04/07/2020 - 20/12/2020

Notification to the author: 30/03/2021

The issue will be published in July 2021

Questions can be sent to the following mail: (midiareligiaos /at/ gmail.com)



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). A few decades ago, research on 
media and religion was systematized along two axes: the use of the media 
by religious organizations and the use of religion by the media 
institutions (notably in the journalism field) through the media 
products. The growing contribution of academic research on religion and 
media to innovative approaches as well as the new media and Internet 
developments have shown that this binary perspective is not sufficient. 
Digital media reveal that the religious and the media intersect from 
several angles and in several areas: the reconfiguration of online 
religious practices by lay people (SOUSA, SOUSA and ROSA, 2017; 2018) 
and institutions (GOMES, 2010; CAMPBELL, 2020); the emergence of 
prominent figures in the media that challenge religious authority (TUDOR 
 and  HERTELIU,  2016;  HOOVER,  2004;  LOVHEIM  and LUNDMARK, 2019); 
the intersection between religiosity and entertainment (CUNHA, 2016); 
the formation of new religious groups by affinities without the 
mediation of religious organizations; the interconnections of the 
religious with other social fields, such as politics and culture 
(BRATOSIN and TUDOR, 2018); the public expression of religion in society 
by laypeople on blogs and social networks (EVOLVI, 2019). 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.

References

BRATOSIN,  Stefan.  TUDOR.  Mihaela  Alexandra.  The  Romanian Religious 
Media Landscape: Between Secularization and the Revitalization of 
Religion. In : Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture, 7, 2018, 
223-250.

CAMPBELL, Heidi (org.). The Distanced Church: Reflections on Doing 
Church Online. Digital Religion Publications An Imprint of the Network 
for New Media, Religion & Digital Culture Studies, 2020.

CUNHA, Magali Nascimento. Elucidações contemporâneas nos estudos 
brasileiros em mídia e religião: a perspectiva das mediações culturais e 
comunicacionais. Famecos. Porto Alegre, v. 23, n. 2, maio, junho, julho 
e agosto de 2016.

EVOLVI, Giulia. Blogging My Religion Secular, Muslim, and Catholic Media 
Spaces in Europe. Routledge: New York, 2019.

GOMES, Pedro Gilberto. Da Igreja Eletrônica à sociedade em midiatização. 
São Paulo: Paulinas, 2010.

HOOVER, Stewart. Mídia e religião: premissas e implicações para os 
campos acadêmico e midiático. Comunicação e Sociedade – São Bernardo do 
Campo, v. 35, n. 2, p. 41-68, jan./jun. 2014

HORSFIELD, Peter. From Jesus to the Internet: A History of Christianity 
and Media. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2015

LÖVHEIM, Mia, LUNDMARK, Evelina. Gender, Religion and Authority in 
Digital Media. ESSACHESS. Journal for Communication Studies, 12(24): 
23-38, 2019.

SOUSA, Marco Túlio de. Rezando pelo smartphone: reconfigurações de 
práticas religiosas em um grupo de oração católico pelo WhatsApp. 
Revista Fronteiras - Estudos Midiáticos. Unisinos, São Leopoldo, vol. 
20, n. 2, p. 217- 230, mai./ago 2018.

SOUSA, Marco Túlio de; ROSA, Ana Paula da. Faith, entertainment, and 
conflicts on the Camino de Santiago (The Way of St. James): a case study 
on the mediatization of 23 Revista Tropos: Comunicação, Sociedade e 
Cultura, v.8, nº 2, edição de Dezembro de 2019 the pilgrimage experience 
on Facebook groups. In: ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies, 
v. 10, p. 145- 170, 2017.

TUDOR, Mihaela Alexandra., HERTELIU, Agnos. “The usages of Internet and 
new media by the Romanian Seventh-day Adventist clergy”, Journal for the 
study of Religions and Ideologies, vol. 15, 45, 2016, p. 207-233.



About Tropos

Revista Tropos: Comunicação, Sociedade e Cultura is linked to the 
research groups: Communication, Society and Culture, and Media, 
Imaginary and Representation - A Cartography of the Amazons (Mirca) of 
the Federal University of Acre (UFAC). The magazine's first publication 
was in 2014 and it has researchers from Brazil, Portugal, France, United 
States, and other countries. The magazine's editors are Francielle Maria 
Modesto Mendes (UFAC) and Francisco Aquinei Timóteo Queirós (UFAC).

GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS

The texts should be in a single column, with margins of 2.5 cm on Top 
and bottom, and 3 cm; Left / Right.

TITLE - In capital letters, bold, in Times New Roman, size 12 and centered.

Abstract - It should be clear and explain the objectives sought, seeking 
to justify their importance. It should integrate the main procedures 
adopted and the most expressive results, containing up to 250 words. In 
Times New Roman, size 12, justified. The abstract should contain three 
to five separate keywords.

Tropos will accept article submissions in portuguese, spanish, english, 
french and italian.

Articles in non portuguese language should present abstract and title 
translated into Portuguese version.

In the body of the work you should follow the following guidelines:

Maximum of 25 and minimum of 12 pages. Times New Roman font, size 12, 
with justified margins, 1.5 spacing between lines.

IMAGES - Images and photos should preferably be converted to jpg format 
before being inserted into Word text. All images must contain subtitles 
and enumeration (eg, figure 1, figure 2 etc).

FOOTNOTES - In Times New Roman, body 10 and single spacing between the 
lines.

QUOTES - Citations up to three lines can be included in quotation marks 
in the body of the text and must be accompanied by the author's 
description. Ex: (FOUCAULT, 1979, p.95). If there is more than one 
author, the names must be separated by a semicolon. Citations with more 
than three lines should be written with letter size 10, single line 
spacing, justified, with initial indentation of 4 cm.
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