Carroggio, M., Narbona, J., & Sebastianelli, D. (Ed). (2025). Communication and Evangelization: Context, Attitudes and Experiences

Rafał  Leśniczak

doi:10.26441/RC24.1-2025-R2

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Rafał Leśniczak Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw (Poland) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0099-4327

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https://doi.org/10.26441/RC24.1-2025-R2

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Book Review

Abstract

The book Communication and Evangelization: Context, Attitudes and Experiences, edited by Marc Carroggio, Juan Narbona, Daniele Sebastianelli, analyses the interrelationship between the processes of institutional communication of the Catholic Church and evangelization. The 5 parts of this volume, containing a total of 53 chapters, offer a scholarly reflection on specific issues such as evangelization in cyberculture, communicating the sacred in traditional and social media, digital religion, and communication skills and evangelization. The book is a valuable tool for spokespersons of ecclesiastical institutions and those responsible for the institutional communication of churches to better understand the changes taking place in the contemporary cultural, social and religious context, which is significantly determined by the media.

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Author Biography

Rafał Leśniczak, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw (Poland)

Associate professor and head of the Department of Social Communication, Public Relations and New Media at the Institute of Media Education and Journalism at the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. His research interests focus on political communication, mediatization and public relations. Leśniczak has a post-doctoral degree in social sciences in the discipline of social communication and media science (University of Maria Curie-Skłodowska in Lublin 2020). https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0099-4327, r.lesniczak@uksw.edu.pl

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