JÓZEF MAJEWSKI
Religion, media, mythology
patronage
What is the secret of the attraction of what is religious for contemporary media? Are media, as many want, really by their very nature hostile to religion, destroying and degenerating in it what is most proper and deepest for it? What is the cultural sense of the processes of tabloidization of the media? Where do the tensions between the media and institutional religions come from? What is the responsibility of the journalistic media in covering religious events? What challenges do contemporary media pose to academic theology? The author explores the relationship between the media and religiosity, broadly understood as a social or individual need for meaning based on that which transcends the empirical world: churches, institutional religions, informal groups, spirituality, spiritualism, belief in the supernatural or supernatural phenomena. In the subsequent chapters of the book, he offers a reflection on the questions of the return of religiosity in the age of audiovisual media and the (quasi-)religious function of the media themselves.
