Handing on faith in the new architecture of contemporary communication

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Joana Terezinha Puntel

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Evangelization in the present contemporary context, transmission of faith, and the new architecture of communication are this article’s central axes. Just as interconnected cogwheels, they need to function together to hand on faith appropriately in today’s world. Our society, marked by unprecedented experiences in the field of digital culture, gave rise to a “new person”, who lives and relates within a new architecture of communication altogether. In the communicative process of digital culture, the modality of communication has changed from a unilinear mode of transmission to networked, interactive, collaborative forms of interaction. Based on the teachings of the Second Vatican Council, and in an effort to rethink the present modalities of faith transmission, this study concerns both the convergence and continuity of the Magisterium of the Church on evangelization and the urgency for her to engage in a dialogue between faith and culture. This requires an attitude of courage to consider more deeply the relation between faith, Church life, and the current transformations as experienced today. For in the digital culture, a new perception and understanding of faith has grown and developed. New languages have challenged conventional paradigms and prompted us into a change of mentality and pastoral practice.

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PUNTEL, Joana Terezinha. Handing on faith in the new architecture of contemporary communication. HORIZONTE - Journal of Studies in Theology and Religious Sciences, Belo Horizonte, v. 15, n. 46, p. 487–509, 2017. DOI: 10.5752/P.2175-5841.2017v15n46p487. Disponível em: https://periodicos.pucminas.br/horizonte/article/view/P.2175-5841.2017v15n46p487. Acesso em: 3 sep. 2025.
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Joana Terezinha Puntel, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS)

Doutora em Ciências da Comunicação pela Universidade de São Paulo (1996) e pela Simon Fraser University (1991). Foi Visiting Research Scholar no Programa Media and Communications na The London School of Economics and Political Science, Inglaterra (2002). Mestrado em Comunicação Social pela Universidade Metodista de São Paulo (1985) e graduação em Jornalismo pela Faculdade de Comunicação Social Casper Líbero (1975). Atua como docente no Programa de pós-graduação em Teologia da Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; e no curso de Especialização Cultura e Meios de Comunicação do SEPAC que se realiza em convênio com a PUC-SP/COGEAE. Seu campo de atuação compreende os temas de: jornalismo, cidadania, política de comunicação, igreja, religião, cultura, meios de comunicação de massa, ética da comunicação. É membro da INTERCOM.