Understanding Pope Francis
Message, Media, and Audience
Lexington Books (Publisher)
Published on 13. July 2021
242 pages
978-1-7936-5162-4 (ISBN)
Description
Understanding Pope Francis: Message, Media, andAudienceoffers several chapters which illuminate the often misunderstood, but widely discussed, leader of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis. With 1.3 billion baptized members living throughout every continent, communication by and about him is a subject deserving to be understood. As technology makes the "global village" predicted by Marshall McLuhan more apparent, the complexities of leading an organization across geographic boundaries with differing ideas about culture and governance present great need to be nuanced, indeed cautious, about messages communicated across diverse media platforms and consumed by divergent audiences. This book lays bare the messages Pope Francis produces, the way that varying platforms/media present those messages, and the complex ways in which audiences formulate their interpretations.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
2 b/w illustrations; 2 tables;
File size
1,85 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-7936-5162-4 (9781793651624)
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07/2021
Lexington Books
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Persons
Joseph R. Blaney is professor of communication and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Illinois State University.
Content
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction : Pope Francis: An Open Book for Increasingly Closed Minds
Joseph R. Blaney
Part I: Message
Chapter 1: Navigating through Ecclesiastical Landmines: Pope Francis' Rhetoric in a Church on the Verge of Civil War
Anthony M. Wachs
Chapter 2: 'We Have Defaulted on a Promissory Note': Pope Francis I's Concatenate Circulation during His 2015 Visit to the United States
Sara A. Mehltretter Drury
Chapter 3: Building a Future of Freedom: Pope Francis's Mobilization of Diverse Prophetic Rhetorical Traditions in His Address to Congress
Daniel P. Overton
Chapter 4: Pope Francis, Twitter, and Collective Identity: Religious Branding of Crisis
Alison N. Novak and M. Olguta Vilceanu
Chapter 5: Pope Francis' Environmental Messaging and Moral Foundations of 'Care/Harm' in Environmental Crises
Mary Beth Deline
Chapter 6: Has Anyone Wept?' Pope Francis at Lampedusa: Migration, Indifference, and Pastoral Pastiche as Equipment for Forgiving
Christopher J.
Acknowledgments
Introduction : Pope Francis: An Open Book for Increasingly Closed Minds
Joseph R. Blaney
Part I: Message
Chapter 1: Navigating through Ecclesiastical Landmines: Pope Francis' Rhetoric in a Church on the Verge of Civil War
Anthony M. Wachs
Chapter 2: 'We Have Defaulted on a Promissory Note': Pope Francis I's Concatenate Circulation during His 2015 Visit to the United States
Sara A. Mehltretter Drury
Chapter 3: Building a Future of Freedom: Pope Francis's Mobilization of Diverse Prophetic Rhetorical Traditions in His Address to Congress
Daniel P. Overton
Chapter 4: Pope Francis, Twitter, and Collective Identity: Religious Branding of Crisis
Alison N. Novak and M. Olguta Vilceanu
Chapter 5: Pope Francis' Environmental Messaging and Moral Foundations of 'Care/Harm' in Environmental Crises
Mary Beth Deline
Chapter 6: Has Anyone Wept?' Pope Francis at Lampedusa: Migration, Indifference, and Pastoral Pastiche as Equipment for Forgiving
Christopher J.
