No. 2 (38) 2020
Table of Contents
Main Theme
- Middle-Range Theories in Religion and Media Studies: Mediation, Mediatization and RSST
- Three Forms of Mediatized Religion: Changing the Public Face of Religion
- Mediatisation of Religion: A Critical Appraisal
- The Communicative Figurations of Mediatized Worlds: Mediatization Research in Times of the “Mediation of Everything”
- Considering the Religious-Social Shaping of Technology
- Mediation of Religious Meaning and Emerging Religious Sensibilities
- How Religion Becomes Visible: Old Believers’ Communities in Social Media
- Mediatization of Pastoral Care in the Russian Orthodox Church: Reasons Behind “Ask the Priest” Websites
- Holy Selfie in Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy: A Comparative Analysis of a New Visual Canon
- Media Practices of Russian Speaking Orthodox Jews: Women’s Groups and Rabbis’ Blogs on Facebook and Instagram
VARIA
- Nemti and Gold: Religious Violence and the Semantics of Punishment in an Ancient Egyptian Tale
- Ethnography and Eroticism in Russian Turkestan
- “Now We See Two Churches…” Conversions to the Old Believer’s Church of Belokrinitsa Agreement and Multi-Orthodoxy Religious Landscape after 1905
- Leo Tolstoy’s Faith: The Equivalence of State of Mind and Content
Book Reviews
- Eastern Orthodoxy in the Internet and Internet in Eastern Orthodoxy (Review of: Suslov, M. (ed.) (2016) Digital Orthodoxy in the Post‑Soviet World: The Russian Orthodox Church and Web 2.0. Stuttgart: Ibidem Verlag. — 350 p.)
- Still Orientalism: How the West Views Islam in the Internet? (Review of: Bunt, G.R. (2018) Hashtag Islam. How Cyber‑Islamic Environments Are Transforming Religious Authority. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. — 214 p.)
- Cheruvallil-Contractor, S. and Shakkour, S. (eds.) (2015) Digital Methodologies in the Sociology of Religion. London: Bloomsbury Academic. — 256 p.
- McGuinness, M. and Fisher, J.T. (eds) (2019) Roman Catholicism in the United States: A Thematic History. New York: Fordham University Press. — 335 p.
- Josephson-Storm, J. (2017) The Myth of Disenchantment: Magic, Modernity and the Birth of Human Sciences. Chicago: Chicago University Press. — 400 p.