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Journal overview

Church, Communication and Culture (CC&C) is an international Open Access journal indexed by Scopus. The journal is published by the School of Church Communications at the Pontificia Università della Santa Croce (Rome, Italy) in partnership with Routledge, Taylor & Francis (UK).

CC&C is dedicated to deepening knowledge and understanding of the dialogue between religion, communication and culture in the public arena, based on comprehensive data analysis with a theoretical framework or a relation to current events, and paying special attention to the Catholic Church.

The following list of examples of topics that are of enduring interest in the journal is by no means exhaustive:

  • Cultural studies on Christian faith and religion
  • Christian identity in mass media history
  • Public opinion regarding the Church and Christian values
  • Church institutional communications
  • Theology of communications
  • Media ethics
  • Bioethics and defence of life
  • Representation of family in the media
  • Case studies on crisis management in the Church
  • Case studies on public events in the Church
  • Case studies on media analysis
  • Religious tourism
  • Christianity in the visual arts
  • Image of man and God in literature
  • Image of man and God in film and TV series
  • Secularization and religious identity
  • Dialogue between religions
  • Religious inculturation and transculturation
  • Management of the Cultural Heritage of Christianity
  • Religion in social and digital media

Church, Communication and Culture operates a double-anonymized peer review policy.

All articles will be made freely and permanently available online through gold open access publication. There are no charges for submitting an article, but there is an Article Publishing Charge if the paper is accepted. Waivers and other funding options are available.

Read the Instructions for Authors for further information on publishing charges, how to obtain waivers and funding, and how to submit your article.

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