@article {1689,
	title = {RELIGION ON CATHOLIC INTERNET FORUMS IN POLAND. A MEMORY MEDIATED},
	journal = {Nordic Journal of Religion and Society},
	volume = {27},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {15},
	chapter = {151},
	abstract = {The following article aims to show that on Catholic Internet forums in Poland, religion{\textemdash}in this
case Roman Catholicism{\textemdash}serves as a mediated chain of memory fulfilling two main functions
simultaneously: an integrating function and a differentiating function. The analysis will be based
on Hervieu-L{\'e}ger{\textquoteright}s concept of religion as a chain of memory (2000, 2006) and Davie{\textquoteright}s modified
concept of religion as memory that mutates (2000, 2006).A thread from 2011 on one of the most
popular Catholic forums in Poland{\textemdash}forum.wiara.pl{\textemdash}will be used as a case study. It will be
shown that through voicing various notions of the meaning of religion, faith, the institutional
Church, and the connection between science and religion, users both distinguish themselves
from and integrate themselves with other users, as well as with their representation of {\textquoteleft}average{\textquoteright}
Catholics in Poland.},
	keywords = {Catholicism, forums, internet, memory, religion},
	url = {http://www.akademikaforlag.no/content/nordic-journal-religion-and-society-272},
	author = {Kolodziejska, Marta}
}
@inbook {2117,
	title = {Digital Catholicism: The Internet and the Vatican},
	booktitle = { Global Catholicism in the Twenty-first Century},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {31-46},
	publisher = {Springer Singapore },
	organization = {Springer Singapore },
	abstract = {This chapter argues that the Catholic Church{\textquoteright}s presence on the Internet contributes to the formation of {\textquotedblleft}digital Catholicism{\textquotedblright}, an engagement by the Church with the users of the digital domain through online technologies in a post-secular world. The Vatican{\textquoteright}s website includes a wide range of information, from papal encyclicals to the latest feed from the Pope{\textquoteright}s Twitter account. The website poses a number of questions relevant to the study of religion in a digital age: How is the website{\textquoteright}s construction modelled on the corporate structure of the real-world Church? How does the website{\textquoteright}s design reflect the Church{\textquoteright}s geographic relationship to its members? And to what degree does the website encourage interaction with its users? The chapter critically assesses these questions, and how the Vatican website contributes to the Catholic Church{\textquoteright}s concern, especially since the aggiornamento of Vatican II, to keep the Church relevant in the context of secularisation. Furthermore, how the website reflects the Church{\textquoteright}s awareness of the importance of new communication technologies in a post-secular landscape, as expressed in the Vatican II documents Inter Mirifica and Communio et Progressio, and more recently {\textquotedblleft}The Church and Internet{\textquotedblright}, is assessed. Finally, unofficial Catholic websites, those run by laypeople seeking to raise awareness about issues important to them, will be analysed as examples of Internet use for religious purposes that lies outside of the control of religious organisations such as the Catholic Church. },
	keywords = {Catholicism, Digital Religion, internet, Vatican},
	issn = {9789811078026},
	url = {https://books.google.com/books/about/Global_Catholicism_in_the_Twenty_first_C.html?id=sHNLDwAAQBAJ},
	author = {Lynch, A.P.}
}
@article {2116,
	title = {Mediatisation of Catholicism in Croatia: A Networked Religion?},
	journal = {Revija za sociologiju},
	volume = {47},
	year = {2017},
	pages = {241-270},
	abstract = {This paper deals with the topic of mediatisation of religion. It is seen as a process wherein the structural logic and communicative characteristics of the media play a significant role in religious communication, thus exerting an influence on the success of the transmission of such messages and on religion as a whole. Consequently, it is argued that contemporary social transformations of religion cannot be properly analysed and understood without the acknowledgement of the increasing mediatisation of religion and its effects. Having in mind the overarching importance of the Internet as a communication platform, the authors investigated whether the Internet presence of Catholicism in Croatia can be identified as a networked religion with its main components (networked communities, storied identities, shifting authority, convergent practice and multisite reality). Media content analysis using a sample (N = 200) of various categories of Catholic websites and Facebook pages was employed. Even though noteworthy differences were found between the sites affiliated, semi-affiliated and non-affiliated with the Catholic Church in Croatia, as well as between such websites and Facebook pages, the findings suggest that in the case of Catholicism in Croatia, Internet religious communication bears close connections to the offline world, does not challenge formal religious authorities, nor does it lead to new interpretations of religious doctrines and texts. The authors concluded that the Internet presence of Catholicism in Croatia leads to the re-affirmation and deepening of the existing forms of religion in the new media environments.},
	keywords = {Catholicism, Croatia, mediatisation, networked religion, religion},
	url = {https://hrcak.srce.hr/193686},
	author = {Pavi{\'c}, Z and Kurbanovi{\'c}, F and Levak, T}
}
@article {1594,
	title = {La reconstrucci{\'o}n de lo {\textquotedblleft}religioso{\textquotedblright} en la circulaci{\'o}n en redes socio-digitales},
	journal = {La Trama de la Comunicaci{\'o}n},
	volume = {18},
	year = {2014},
	chapter = {151},
	abstract = {En este art{\'\i}culo, se presenta una reflexi{\'o}n sobre la mediatizaci{\'o}n digital de la religi{\'o}n, fen{\'o}meno socio-comunicacional en que se sit{\'u}a la actual reconstrucci{\'o}n de lo religioso. En sitios cat{\'o}licos brasile{\~n}os, se analiza el desv{\'\i}o de la pr{\'a}ctica de la fe al ambiente online a partir de l{\'o}gicas medi{\'a}ticas, los llamados rituales online, que complejizan el fen{\'o}meno religioso y las procesualidades comunicacionales. Se describen tres modalidades de oferta y apropiaci{\'o}n de lo sagrado: la inter faz interaccional, las interacciones discursivas y las interacciones rituales. A partir de esas nuevas modalidades de percepci{\'o}n y de expresi{\'o}n de lo sagrado, se analizan las pr{\'a}cticas de instituciones sociales como la Iglesia y la sociedad en general al hablar p{\'u}blicamente sobre lo religioso en las redes digitales {\textendash} en este caso, lo {\textquotedblleft}cat{\'o}lico{\textquotedblright}, es decir, constructos simb{\'o}licos que la sociedad considera como vinculados a la doctrina y tradici{\'o}n de la Iglesia Cat{\'o}lica-. Se analizan, entonces, los conceptos de reconexi{\'o}n y dispositivos conexiales. Como conclusi{\'o}n, se afirma que, en esa reconstrucci{\'o}n de lo {\textquotedblleft}cat{\'o}lico{\textquotedblright}, surge una religiosidad en experimentaci{\'o}n marcada por e-rej{\'\i}as, o sea, nuevos sentidos simb{\'o}licos de lo religioso en red, {\textquotedblleft}bricolajes de la fe{\textquotedblright} en el ambiente digital.

This article presents a reflection on the digital mediatization of religion, socio-communicational phenomenon in which stands the current reconstruction of the religious. In Brazilian Catholic sites, it analyzes the displacement of the practice of the faith to the online environment based on mediatic logics, the so-called rituals online, that turn the religious phenomena and the communication processualities more complex. It describes three forms of of fer and appropriation of the sacred: the interactional inter face, the discursive interactions and the ritual interactions. From these new modes of perception and expression of the sacred, it analyses practices of social institutions as the Church and society in general to speak publicly about religion in digital networks {\textendash} in this case, the {\textquotedblleft}Catholic{\textquotedblright}, ie symbolic constructs that society considers as linked to the doctrine and tradition of the Catholic Church. It then discusses the concepts of reconnection and connectial devices. In conclusion, it is stated that in the reconstruction of the {\textquotedblleft}Catholic{\textquotedblright} arises a religiosity in experimentation marked by e-resies, ie new symbolic meanings of the networked religious, {\textquotedblleft}bricolages of faith{\textquotedblright} in the digital environment.},
	keywords = {Catholic Church, Catholicism, circulation, connectial dispositifs, mediatization, mediatization of religion, reconnections, socio-digital networks},
	issn = {1668-5628},
	url = {http://www.latrama.fcpolit.unr.edu.ar/index.php/trama/article/view/472},
	author = {Mois{\'e}s Sbardelotto}
}
@article {1593,
	title = {The Sacred in Bits and Pixels: An Analysis of the Interactional Interface in Brazilian Catholic Online Rituals},
	journal = {Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture (JRMDC)},
	volume = {3},
	year = {2014},
	chapter = {82},
	abstract = {Through digital technologies, a new form of communicational interaction between the user and the sacred occurs in an online religious experience. This phenomenon is illustrated in practice by numerous religious services present in the online Catholic environment, which manifest new modes of discourse and religious practices, beyond the scope of the traditional church {\textendash} what I term here {\textquotedblleft}online rituals{\textquotedblright} {\textendash} marked by a process of mediatization of religion. In this paper, from a corpus of four Brazilian websites, I analyze key concepts for the understanding of this phenomenon, including digital mediatization and interface. I examine, in these Brazilian Catholic websites, the communicational configurations of the religious experience from five areas of the interactional interface: the screen; peripherals; the organizational structure of content on websites; the graphic composition of the webpages; and possible interface failures. Finally, I examine a shift in the communicational dynamics of religion today, marked by new materialities present in online religious rituals.},
	keywords = {Brazil, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Interaction, interface, internet, mediatization, mediatization of religion, online rituals, religion, technology},
	issn = {2165-9214},
	url = {http://jrmdc.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Sbardelotto-Catholic-Sacred.pdf},
	author = {Mois{\'e}s Sbardelotto}
}
