Spiritual News

Yoel Cohen: Introduction: Religion News in the Twenty-First Century - Stewart Hoover: Religion and the News in the Age of Media Change - Joyce Smith: Foreign News-The 'Religion Story' - Yoel Cohen: The Religion Reporter - Miriam Diez Bosch: The Vaticanologists: Covering the Holy See - Tim Hutchings: Digital Futures of Religion Journalism - Daniel A. Stout: Convergence, Digital Media, and the Paradigm Shift in Religion News in the United States - Victor Khroul: Religion and News Media in Post-Soviet Russia - Magali do Nascimento Cunha: Religious Exclusivism and Roman Catholicism in the Brazilian News Media - Walter C. Ihejirika/Andrew D. Dewan: Development Journalism and Religion Reporting: The Nigerian Case - Keval J. Kumar: Reporting Religion in Indian News Media: Hindu Nationalism, 'Reconversions' and the Secular State - Qingjiang Yao/Zhaoxi Liu: Media and Religion in China: Publicizing Gods Under Atheistic Governance - Giulia Evolvi: Habemus Papas: Pope Francis' Election as a Religious Media Event - Leo Eko: The Argument of Force Versus the Force of Argument: The Charlie Hebdo Terrorist Attack as a Global Meta Event - Noha Mellor: Religious Ideologies and News Ethics: The Case of Saudi Arabia - Haryati Abd ul Karim: Sinners or Alternative Identities? Contrasting Discourses on LGBT Communities in Two Malaysian Dailies - Yoel Cohen: Holy Days, News Media, and Religious Identity: A Case Study in Jewish Holy Days and the Israeli Press and News Websites - Daniel Arasa/Lorenzo Cantoni/Juan Narbona: The Catholic Church and Twitter - Christian Bourret/Karim Fraoua: Religion, Social Media and Societal Changes: The Case of "Marriage for All" in France - Babak Rahimi: Internet News, Media Technologies, and Islam: The Case of Shafaqna - Contributors - Index.

Professor Yoel Cohen is on the faculty of the School of Communication, Ariel University, Israel. His research interests include religion and news; and media and religion in Israel and Judaism. His book publications include God, Jews & the Media: Religion & Israel's Media; Whistleblowers and the Bomb; and Media Diplomacy: The Foreign Office in the Mass Communications Age. He is co-convenor of the Religion, Communication and Culture working group, The International Association for Media & Communication Research (IAMCR).

"Cohen has accomplished much in bringing us new and understudied regions and topics. Scholars will welcome these variations, whilst students will appreciate a diverse collection of essays that gives a good picture of the dynamic field of religion and journalism." (Michael B. Munnik, Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture, 8/2019)