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  Briggs, Asa, and Peter Burke. A Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet .                     3 rd ed. Malden, MA: Polity, 2009.   Peter Burke and Asa Briggs, in “A Social History of the Media”, aim to provide a comprehensive contextual world in which different media platforms came to light, from Gutenberg to the Internet era. They interweave the rise of communication media and aspects of the social and cultural contexts within which they emerged and evolved over time. They explore topics such as the latest developments in the field, the wide range of secondary literature and theory that inform the study of media history today, and the media developments of the twenty-first century, including the rise of social media and the penetration of these technologies into every sphere of social and private life, avoiding shallow empirical and common-sense criticism that every form of communication received in its dominating days. Burke and Briggs’ work brings a st

 My take on their relationship for the 2015 ULBRA Theological Forum in Canoas, Brazil  _________________   AMOS, CHRISTIANITY AND THE SECULAR STATE [1] Lucas André Albrecht [2]   1. INTRODUCTION   Conversations and debates about the relationship between the Secular State and the Church have been constant, and even fierce in the Brazilian public sphere in recent decades. Especially, with the rise of neo-Pentecostal Protestantism and the consolidation of the evangelical block in the Congress. In this context, different opinions have emerged in the socio-political and religious context of the nation. Looking carefully, it is possible to perceive a certain duality, perhaps even contradiction regarding the perception of the Church's beliefs and values in its relationship with the modern secular state. On the one hand, from a conceptual and normative point of view, political and intellectual voices affirm that the complete separation between Church and State is imperat