Benazir en odeur de sainteté

Boivin, Michel; Delage, Rémy

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“…The King appears as a Jesus descending to bring the healing and resurrection of the country, and his visit is described as "a sign that Romania is no longer omitted from God's plans" (Coman 2003). The discourse and iconography from Pakistani mass media translate the life and death of Benazir Bhuto from the political code into the religious code, transforming the political victim into a political martyr and then into a "secular saint" (Boivin and Delage 2010). The funeral of the President of Poland and 20 dignitaries killed in the plane crash in Smolensk was presented by the Polish mass media as a transformative media event, focused on the myth of heroic sacrifice for the homeland and that of the nation surrounded by enemies.…”

Section: Media Public Sphere and Religionmentioning

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Media, Religion, and the Public Sphere

Mihai

2023

Religions

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In the present study, I undertake to show that the public sphere can be constructed within the frames of a discourse loaded with religious symbols, either as part of religious institutions and manifestations, or, in a more interesting case, through the media discourse. I want to show that media functions as a ritualizing agent, which builds symbolic spaces of action and thinking. Journalists accomplish this by presenting events as if they had pre-established and immutable order and meaning, set within a religious system. The ritualization of the journalistic performance and the mythologization of the representation of events are some of the strongest tools for promoting a representation of events in a language loaded with religious symbols and to outline a public sphere constructed in a religious frame. Thus, using a sacralizing language, media creates a religious public sphere, which function as a liminal, subjunctive framework: it is possible to assume that now a new type of public sphere, defined by a religious frame, is developed, in a social context and symbolical frame that are totally different to the usual circumstances of a religious experience.

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Section: Media Public Sphere and Religionmentioning

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Media, Religion, and the Public Sphere

Mihai

2023

Religions

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Media and the Sacralization of Leaders and Events: The Construction of a Religious Public Sphere

Coman

2023

Open Theology

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This study aims to demonstrate that media can achieve a religious construction of an event or issue and set the public sphere in a religious frame through the sacralization of events and persons. This perspective can be supported empirically by the studies showing the way in which mass media framed different events in a religious imaginary and language and proposed this image as a frame for public sphere debates and theoretically by the concepts of media events, mediatization, ritualization, and sacralization, in order to reveal the processes through which the translation from a secular discourse to a religious discourse is produced. Under certain circumstances, mass media work as an “as if” (metaphoric) religion, and the events are presented through a religious frame – through themes and figures that come from the religious sacred narratives. Journalists accomplish this by setting events and leaders within the symbolic frame specific to religion: within this framework, those who report the facts are using narratives close to hagiographic stories, and by this, they are accomplishing the sacralization of these events. This enables journalists to exert a “ritual mastery” over presenting the events and imposing its significations.

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L’Islam, l’état et les ulémas dans la république islamique du Pakistan. Un bras de fer de plus d’un demi-siècle

Boivin¹

2012

Politique Et Religions en Asie Du Sud

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Benazir en odeur de sainteté

Cited by 7 publications

References 10 publications

Media, Religion, and the Public Sphere

Media, Religion, and the Public Sphere

Media and the Sacralization of Leaders and Events: The Construction of a Religious Public Sphere

L’Islam, l’état et les ulémas dans la république islamique du Pakistan. Un bras de fer de plus d’un demi-siècle

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