Chair: Professor Ann E. Strahle
Presentations:
Frank Coffey (Independent Scholar, Canada): Communicating Religiously in Mass Media: Francis of Rome as a Telling Example for Practice with the Resource of Times
Dr Franz-Josef Eilers (Santo Tomas University, Manila): The Concept of Social Communication
Melanie Johnson (Claremont Graduate University, USA): Celebrity Preachers: An Exploration of the Theory of Mediatization of Religion Through an Analysis of the Celebritized Messenger of the Gospel
Corinna Laughlin (University of Pennsylvania, USA): Guns and God: Negotiating American folk imaginaries in emerging digital counter-publics