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Understanding Pope Francis analyzes the message, audience, and channel considerations in addresses, encyclicals, and media coverage related to Pope Francis. As a classic example of an "open text" subject to wildly divergent interpretations, the chapters advance communication theory and religious communication writ large.
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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. Oldenburg
Chapter 7: The Crisis Leadership of Pope Francis in a Local-Global Pandemic
R. Tyler Spradley
Part II: Medium
Chapter 8: The Media's Shaping of Pope Francis' Interview in America, The National Catholic Weekly
N. Benton Parish
Chapter 9: Pope Francis and Spiritual Leadership: His Guidance Through Social Media in Times of Crisis
Juan Narbona
Chapter 10: Papal Copyright: Textual Authority and Media Distribution in Pope Francis' Pontificate
Andrew Ventimiglia
Part III: Audience
Chapter 11: The Dynamics of Moral Inclusion and Exclusion in Reactions to Pope Francis' Messages
Eric D. Wesselmann., Joseph P. Zompetti, and Anna R. George
Conclusion: Re-Framing Pope Francis: The Scholarly Audience Has a Mind of Its Own
Joseph R. Blaney
About the author
Joseph R. Blaney is professor of communication and associate of the College of Arts and Sciences at Illinois State University.
Summary
Understanding Pope Francis analyzes the message, audience, and channel considerations in addresses, encyclicals, and media coverage related to Pope Francis. As a classic example of an "open text" subject to wildly divergent interpretations, the chapters advance communication theory and religious communication writ large.
