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Josh Edelman
01/07/2024| UK
Religious Communities in the Virtual Age: Practices, Values, Technologies, Boundaries 28 October 2024, Manchester, England Keynote Speaker: Prof Linda Woodhead, King’s College London. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, religious communities across Europe and the world have engaged with the digital world and specific digital technologies in a wide variety of ways. Some have embraced online worship and […]
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Digitization and Roman Catholic immigrants in Frankfurt/Germany
Recovira
06/11/2024| UK
Brigitta Sassin, theologian and pastoral worker for religious immigrant communities in Frankfurt/Germany, introduced the project ‘International Stations of the Cross’ at the Dialogue Conference of the ReCoVirA-Project Germany on June 24th. This perspective expanded the projects’ findings and understanding of the transnational experience of religious communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Contact: sassin@stadtkirche-ffm.de Frankfurt has always […]
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Religion in the digital age – presentation of the Slovenian research results in Ljubljana
Recovira
07/10/2024Slovenija | English | Slovenia
Authors: Katja Koren Ošljak and Aleš Črnič On 11. September 2024 the project team from Slovenia held public presentation of the results of the national part of the project. They organised a broader public-facing event on the topic of religion in the digital age in Ljubljana where the research work and results from the recent […]
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The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Vietnamese Buddhist community in Finland
Recovira
05/09/2024Slovenija | Finnish | Finland
Katriina Hulkkonen and Linda Annunen, Åbo Akademi University In the Recovira project, we examine the effects of the pandemic in three distinct types of religious communities: in a large, majority, or institutional community with extensive resources, in a firmly established minority community, and in a less established, often newer, community. In Finland, we chose the […]
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Auf dem Weg zur digitalen Gemeinde
Recovira
05/09/2024Slovenija | German | Germany
Author: Eugen El, Leiter der Kommunikation und Digitalisierung, Jüdische Gemeinde Frankfurt am Main Eugen El, Leiter der Kommunikation und Digitalisierung, Jüdische Gemeinde Frankfurt am Main, hat auf der Dialogtagung des ReCoVirA-Projekts Deutschland am 24. Juni die Gemeinde-App der Jüdischen Gemeinde Frankfurt vorgestellt und damit die Ergebnisse des Forschungsprojekts um eine Perspektive aus der Praxis bereichert. […]
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Exploring Religious Socialisation in a Mediatised World
Recovira
22/08/2024Fieldwork | English | Germany
Author: Erkan Binici, Research Associate, University of Tübingen Erkan Binici, a research associate and doctoral candidate in Islamic religious education at the University of Tübingen, introduced his research in the Dialogue Conference of ReCoVirA-Project Germany on June 24th. This perspective expanded the projects’ findings and understanding of the situation of adolescents in religious communities and […]
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The Online Eventification in Religious Communities in Denmark
Recovira
01/08/2024Fieldwork | English | Denmark
Anne Lundahl Mauritsen, Postdoctoral Researcher, Aarhus University As the summer vacations come to an end in Denmark, we can reflect upon the current work the Danish Recovira team is undertaking. In the last blogpost, we investigated the importance of the senses in relation to how members of religious groups conceptualized the feeling of community. We […]
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