Understanding Pope Francis
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Understanding Pope Francis

Message, Media, and Audience

  1. 243 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Understanding Pope Francis

Message, Media, and Audience

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: Pope Francis: An Open Book for Increasingly Closed Minds
  8. Part I: Message
  9. Chapter 1: The Francis Effect: Pope Francis’ Rhetoric in a Church on the Verge of Civil War
  10. Chapter 2: The Concatenate Circulation of Pope Francis’s Civic Rhetoric during the 2015 Papal Visit to the United States
  11. Chapter 3: Building a Future of Freedom: Pope Francis’s Mobilization of Diverse Prophetic Rhetorical Traditions in his Address to Congress
  12. Chapter 4: Pope Francis, Twitter, and Collective Identity: Religious Branding of Crises
  13. Chapter 5: Expanding Moral Messaging Climate Change Research
  14. Chapter 6: “Has Anyone Wept?” Pope Francis at Lampedusa: Migration, Indifference, and Pastoral Pastiche as Equipment for Forgiving
  15. Chapter 7: The Crisis Leadership of Pope Francis in a Local-Global Pandemic
  16. Part II: Medium
  17. Chapter 8: The Media’s Shaping of Pope Francis’ Interview in America, The National Catholic Weekly
  18. Chapter 9: Pope Francis and Spiritual Leadership: His Guidance through Digital Media in Times of Pandemic
  19. Chapter 10: Papal Copyright: Textual Authority and Media Distribution in Pope Francis’ Pontificate
  20. Part III: Audience
  21. Chapter 11: The Dynamics of Inclusion and Moral Values in Understanding Reactions to Pope Francis’ Rhetoric
  22. Conclusion: Re-Framing Pope Francis: The Scholarly Audience Has a Mind of Its Own
  23. Index
  24. About the Authors