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New Media, Religion, and Politics: A Comparative Investigation into the Dialogue Between the Religious and the Secular in France and in Vietnam

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This chapter aims to highlight the importance of studying religion within digital culture, through the mutual interactions between religion, digital media, and politics. It draws on a comparative empirical investigation into the place of religion in two very distinct societies, France and Vietnam, through two recent phenomena, namely the social circulation of the slogan of solidarity “Pray for Paris” on social media following the terrorist attacks in Paris on 13 November 2015; and, the process and the impacts of Vietnamese digital Catholic communication in the Church-State land disputes during the 2008–2010. Challenging the dominant and popular assumption about religion as a source of anxiety for the public sphere, this study offers a discussion of a potential perspective of dialogue between the religious and the secular by the mediation of the sacred in our complex contemporary societies. Conceived of as an “in-between” category, “sacred forms” proved to be fecund and heuristic, by allowing to identify and to favor a productive tension between the religious and the secular, when facing with current diverse radicalisms of all kinds in the world.

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  1. Faculty of Humanities, Université Catholique de l’Ouest, Angers, France

    Anh Ngoc Hoang

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  1. Communication Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Jeremy Hunsinger

  2. Deakin University, Burwood, VIC, Australia

    Matthew M. Allen

  3. IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Lisbeth Klastrup

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Hoang, A.N. (2020). New Media, Religion, and Politics: A Comparative Investigation into the Dialogue Between the Religious and the Secular in France and in Vietnam. In: Hunsinger, J., Allen, M., Klastrup, L. (eds) Second International Handbook of Internet Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1555-1_27

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