{"title":"Charles Horton Cooley: Nulla linea sine Deo","authors":"E. López-Escobar","doi":"10.1080/23753234.2021.1967176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23753234.2021.1967176","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Charles H. Cooley, a pioneer in the study of Communication, had been credited regarding the notions of the looking-glass self and the primary group, but his seminal ideas related to communication – inspired by the German economist and sociologist Albert Schäffle – remained almost ignored for decades. But, after many years of obscurity, the most recent literature is outlining Cooley’s contribution to symbolic interactionism and other concepts in the study of Communication. This paper focuses more specifically on how Cooley understood the relationship between communication and God. The original and surprising phrase nulla linea sine Deo (no one single line without God) that appears in his Journal, manifests his religious engagement during a time of intellectual and spiritual change in American universities. At twenty five years old he had written in his Journal on May 11, 1890: ‘I want to be a scholar in righteousness, to be taught all the ways of strength and truth. I pray that may be led in hard ways so that I may know in my own life that “man shall not live by bread alone”’.","PeriodicalId":36858,"journal":{"name":"Church, Communication and Culture","volume":"6 1","pages":"311 - 326"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44275207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The recognition of the sacred in theories of possible worlds: some hermeneutic orientations","authors":"Álvaro Abellán-García Barrio, Arturo Encinas Cantalapiedra","doi":"10.1080/23753234.2021.1961594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23753234.2021.1961594","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article addresses the question of the possibilities for the recognition of the sacred in theories of possible worlds, an area which has not been explicitly developed but that has important consequences based on each author’s underlying notion of “world”. The study will focus on three representatives of the logical-analytical current (Ryan, Albaladejo and Doležel) and on three other authors who take a phenomenological-existential approach (Eco, Pavel and García-Noblejas). Despite the systematic clarity of the model of analysis applied by the former authors, their fundamental understanding of reality may inhibit the identification of the sacred as “real”. Although the existential current is a priori more disposed to recognize the sacred, a more systematic approach in their analysis is required for the identification and thematization of the sacred. The present paper examines the theoretical presuppositions of each approach in recognizing the sacred within narrations, as an element in the salvation or perdition of fictional characters, which is essential for a full understanding of both the sapiential value of fiction and the meaning of many works of fiction. To conclude, the paper offers a series of observations to assist in the systematization of the study of the sacred in possible fictional worlds.","PeriodicalId":36858,"journal":{"name":"Church, Communication and Culture","volume":"6 1","pages":"175 - 193"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43935133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Father Franz Josef Eilers SVD (1932–2021)","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/23753234.2021.1890629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23753234.2021.1890629","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36858,"journal":{"name":"Church, Communication and Culture","volume":"6 1","pages":"155 - 156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23753234.2021.1890629","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45312166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Infoética: El periodismo liberado de lo políticamente correcto [Journalistic Ethics: Journalism Freed from Political Correctness]","authors":"N. Gaitano","doi":"10.1080/23753234.2021.1885985","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23753234.2021.1885985","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36858,"journal":{"name":"Church, Communication and Culture","volume":"6 1","pages":"139 - 142"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23753234.2021.1885985","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42819339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Communicating the Church","authors":"Enrique Fuster","doi":"10.1080/23753234.2021.1886592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23753234.2021.1886592","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36858,"journal":{"name":"Church, Communication and Culture","volume":"6 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23753234.2021.1886592","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47711984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Islam in British media discourses. Understanding perceptions of Muslims in the news","authors":"María A. Corpas-Aguirre","doi":"10.1080/23753234.2021.1884819","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23753234.2021.1884819","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36858,"journal":{"name":"Church, Communication and Culture","volume":"6 1","pages":"148 - 150"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23753234.2021.1884819","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42077497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"J.R.R. Tolkien’s sub-creation theory: literary creativity as participation in the divine creation","authors":"María Del Rincón Yohn","doi":"10.1080/23753234.2021.1886860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23753234.2021.1886860","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract J.R.R. Tolkien is recognized as one of the great literary creators of fantastic worlds. The English author added to his literary work a reflection on the role of the fantasy writer in his theory of sub-creation. This literary theory –exhibited mainly in his essay ‘On Fairy-Stories’ and in his letters– is based on the author's own cosmovision, clearly influenced by his Catholicism, and contemplates literary creation as an analogy of divine creation. This article deals with the Christian foundation present in the idea of participation in Creation that we find in Tolkien's theory of sub-creation. It proposes an overview of the main theological questions that support this participation, taking especially into account the contribution that John Paul II makes on this issue in his ‘Letter to Artists’.","PeriodicalId":36858,"journal":{"name":"Church, Communication and Culture","volume":"6 1","pages":"17 - 33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23753234.2021.1886860","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48903974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eight Popes and the Crisis of Modernity","authors":"Mónica Fuster Cancio","doi":"10.1080/23753234.2021.1880951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23753234.2021.1880951","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36858,"journal":{"name":"Church, Communication and Culture","volume":"6 1","pages":"151 - 154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23753234.2021.1880951","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46248783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Church communication highlights 2020","authors":"D. Contreras","doi":"10.1080/23753234.2021.1887748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23753234.2021.1887748","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The year 2020 will go down in history as the year of COVID-19, even in the realm of the Catholic Church. Among other things, the pandemic led the Pope to forgo all pastoral trips outside of Italy. During the twelve months of that “fateful” year, however, other events that were relevant to the life of the Church did take place. In the following pages, we shall list some of the most important news stories covered by the media. Since there is no other way, the selection is based on this author’s criteria, though it does rely on some objective grounds: the “rivers of ink”, as they used to say, that each of these events unleashed. In other words, we have selected those news events that sparked the most conversation and discussion.","PeriodicalId":36858,"journal":{"name":"Church, Communication and Culture","volume":"6 1","pages":"4 - 16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23753234.2021.1887748","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47862907","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Church communication in the face of vulnerability: a theoretical framework and practical application for information management in cases of the abuse of minors","authors":"Marco Carroggio","doi":"10.1080/23753234.2021.1880950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23753234.2021.1880950","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article is mainly aimed toward those responsible for communications in ecclesial organizations that are experiencing vulnerability. It integrates the perspective of organizational communication with ecclesiological contributions. The first part notes that vulnerability is a common trait of civil and ecclesial organizations, both in the passive sense (potential to be hurt) and in the active sense (capacity to do harm). In the second part, a circular conceptual framework of the process of communication, devised by several academics from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, is developed and applied to the Church. In pursuing adherence to reality, this is a valid theoretical framework for inspiring the communication management that is required for dealing with errors and failures. In the description of the process, references are added to the issue of fragility in each of its phases: identity, culture, discourse, image, and reputation. A key word in this sequence is ‘consistency’ (between what an institution is, and how it considers itself; what it does, and what it says). In the third part, this ‘realistic’ conceptual universe is applied to the issue of the abuse of minors committed by ministers of the Catholic Church, guidelines for the communications team are suggested (investigate, listen, accompany, repair), and seven criteria for proper reporting are proposed.","PeriodicalId":36858,"journal":{"name":"Church, Communication and Culture","volume":"6 1","pages":"58 - 79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/23753234.2021.1880950","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46634286","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}