Religion and/as Media

Stolow, Jeremy

doi:10.1177/0263276405054993

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“…The integrated approach can be regarded as a compromise between the above two positions (complementary functions of traditional and modern media to attain religious objectives) as developed by Bahonar (2009). Stolow (2005) insists that it is the media, which provide a platform for new forms of religious publicity in non-religious dominant public spheres, such as religious counter-public (an alternative regardless of the state and civil systems) and split-public (dialogical symbiosis of societies with different cultural backgrounds). The editors of the collection of essays Religion, Media and the Public Sphere Meyer a Moors (2006) present the idea of the socalled mediated religion, which constructs new forms of civil discussion and public discourse.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The idea of identifying religion with the media instead of examining parallel functions of religion as a distinct phenomenon from media is strongly supported Stolow (2005). Stolow supports the idea of sensuous religious presence (religion materialised through human senses).…”

Section: Religion As Mediamentioning

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“…Stolow (2005) insists that scholars should seek a deeper and more profound understanding of the relation between religion and media. De la Cruz (2009) provides an alternative in the theory of 'convergent media' -binary categories of secular and religious, which drive contemporary ethnography and social theory,".…”

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Religious Messages and the Media Code - Inherent features of the media language code and the transmission of religious messages

Rončáková¹

2017

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Abstract:The purpose of this study is to determine whether the media language code is suitable for transmitting religious messages. In religious media communication one observes a tendency not to respect the classical news values, and in fact tends to limit them. This approach makes religious media communication fail at the start. Using textual analysis and qualitative research techniques, e.g., focus groups and Delphi, we investigate some news values relate (positively or negatively) to the religious messages. IntroductionCan media language carry religious content? This fundamental question has been the subject of our wide research inspired by previous projects carried out at the Department focusing on the coverage of religious topics in the media. Previous projects have pointed to an interesting fact that the news coverage of identical topics by the religious media has sharply contrasted with that of secular media, even to the extent that an almost "intersection-free" set of the underlying facts communicated by the media could be observed. The products of such coverage fall into two extremes: the non-journalistically covered and, from the recipient's perspective, almost indigestible reviews of religious events brought by religious media -and handy and journalistically covered, however completely without the true essence of the event by secular media. For instance, the religious media covered the news about the Pope's visit to a foreign country through reviews of the Pope's homilies and addresses while secular This observation has prompted the question as to whether the causes of such differences were objective or subjective in their nature, i.e. whether they are inevitable, or if a kind of systemic flaw resides therein. Since this study focuses specifically on the problem of communication code in media transmission of religious messages, the question subject to examination is how the inherent qualities of a media communication code affect the transmission of religious messages, on one hand, and how do such religious messages cope with the inherent qualities of media communication codes when transmitted through these communication channels.In our examination of the capacity of media language code to transmit religious 2 messages, we will focus on the communication process, or, the communication process of mass media in particular. The generally accepted scheme transmitter -code -channel -noise -recipient is present in each communication process. As part of our research of the media code, which forms the basis of our further investigation, we have focused on the transmission part of the scheme, i. e. the code -channel -noise, in particular, and here, we have arrived at several key findings about the code, which are presented below. This study deals with concepts such as religious message, religious media, or secular media, in particular. The term 'religious message' refers to a piece of communication originating in the church environment, which a communicator seeks to spread using a medium. The concept of relig...

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Rončáková¹

2017

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“…Several authors have noted that there is a religious revival going on in what Jeremy Stolow (2005) called 'secular modernity'. We live in a time that, to some, what was supposed to be secular has become sacred and what was traditionally associated with the sacred has been secularized (Hoover 1997).…”

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In Search of Religious Elements in the Dutch Nature Policy

Jansen

Stoep

Keulartz³

et al. 2016

JSRNC

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“…In other words, media are constitutive of the religious imagination. Instead of studying the relation between religion and media, scholars would do better to study religion as a practice of mediation (de Vries 2001;Meyer 2004;Plate 2004;Stolow 2005). This perspective helps one reframe questions about religious change in productive ways: Rather than think about the arrival of new media in the realm of religion as a uniquely modern development, as an encroachment of modernity in the realm of tradition, or as the "colonization of religious consciousness," to paraphrase John Comaroff (1989), one might (alternatively and complementarily) think about it as the opening up of a new register of mediation-with all the creative and destructive energies that the introduction of new media tends to set free (as the history of iconoclasm has shown), with all the problems of authorization and authentication the use of new media tends to entail, and with all the controversy and contestation new media tend to give rise to.…”

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Visualizing the sacred: Video technology, “televisual” style, and the religious imagination in Bahian candomblé

Port

2006

American Ethnologist

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Religion and/as Media

Cited by 191 publications

References 45 publications

Religious Messages and the Media Code - Inherent features of the media language code and the transmission of religious messages

Religious Messages and the Media Code - Inherent features of the media language code and the transmission of religious messages

In Search of Religious Elements in the Dutch Nature Policy

Visualizing the sacred: Video technology, “televisual” style, and the religious imagination in Bahian candomblé

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