Hacks or Flacks?

Cannon, Douglas F.

doi:10.1558/firn.v4i2.168

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“…The nexus of faith and public relations has a growing body of knowledge across a wide spectrum of inquiry in addition to that of civil rights advocacy – saints and devotional-promotional communication (Tilson, 2023; Tilson and Chao, 2002; Watson, 2008); pilgrimage and tourism (Tilson, 2001, 2005); crisis (Spaulding, 2018; Morehouse and Austin, 2022); media (Stout, 2012; Cannon, 2009; Smith et al, 2021); and society (Waymer et al, 2012; Waymer and Van Slette, 2021). Moreover, while having been overshadowed by corporate research, faith and public relations also are taking their place for funding and publication .…”

Section: Historical Contexts Of Activism and Faithmentioning

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All creatures great and small: Faith, spirituality, environmental-animal rights activism and public relations as covenantal stewardship

Tilson

2024

Public Relations Inquiry

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This study extends the historical record of faith/spirituality-inspired social activism, an under-explored area of advocacy, by examining such campaigning for environmental and animal rights and the worldview and model of public relations that guide such efforts. A combination of qualitative methods was used to obtain data on public relations as conceptualized and practiced including a textual analysis of historical material and institutional media. Throughout history faith/spirituality has inspired Indigenous peoples, governments, and individuals to advocate for environmental and animal rights, playing a central role in the formation and practice of a worldview, caritas, embracing an approach to relationship-building – covenantal stewardship – that guides behavior in a pro-social manner toward an inclusive set of “publics” – humans living, unborn, and ancestral, animals, and the natural world as well as alternative views of public relations. Moreover, individuals of faith/spirituality have created NGOs to institutionalize such activism. The influence of faith/spirituality upon environmental and animal rights activism points toward a re-thinking of the nature of public relations and its “publics” given emerging sensitivities to the principles of inclusion necessary for the harmonious functioning of society and requires a new definition, worldview, and model of practice.

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Section: Historical Contexts Of Activism and Faithmentioning

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All creatures great and small: Faith, spirituality, environmental-animal rights activism and public relations as covenantal stewardship

Tilson

2024

Public Relations Inquiry

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“…In-house journalists concentrated on reporting, writing, and editing church information. Consequently, council members who considered themselves journalists might bring a fundamentally different orientation to their work from those who considered themselves public relations managers (Cannon, 2009).…”

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Who Do You Say That I Am? A History of How Religion Communicators Have Often Avoided “Public Relations”

Cannon

2015

Journal of Public Relations Research

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All in the Family

Cannon

2014

New Media and Communication Across Religions and Cultures

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This chapter suggests that religion communicators examine their understanding of relationship in terms of their faith perspectives. Do communicators create relationships by building consensus and communities of belief, or did God establish relationships between people by creating the human family? Ideas hold communities of belief together. Disagreements threaten community bonds. The majority works to maintain consensus and silence dissent. Family connections tolerate disunity. Even when people disagree, they remain family members. The main threat to the family is loss of dialogue. Diverse family members want to engage different viewpoints to discern truth. Seeing relationships in family terms could have theological and practical appeals for religion communicators as they try to resolve conflicts, foster cooperation, and manage dialogues with publics. Religion communicators, especially those from Abrahamic faiths, might approach family disputes differently from the win-lose asymmetrical standpoint often seen in business. Religion communicators could downplay instrumental practices based solely on persuasion and consensus. Religion communicators could focus on generating robust dialogue, hearing all sides of an issue, and discerning God's truths.

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Hacks or Flacks?

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All creatures great and small: Faith, spirituality, environmental-animal rights activism and public relations as covenantal stewardship

All creatures great and small: Faith, spirituality, environmental-animal rights activism and public relations as covenantal stewardship

Who Do You Say That I Am? A History of How Religion Communicators Have Often Avoided “Public Relations”

All in the Family

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