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

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Open Theology Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.1515/opth-2022-0230

M. Coman

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Abstract

Abstract 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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媒体与领袖和事件的神圣化:宗教公共领域的建构

摘要本研究旨在证明媒体可以通过对事件和人物的神圣化，实现对事件或问题的宗教建构，并将公共领域置于宗教框架中。这一观点可以通过以下研究得到实证支持:大众媒体如何以宗教想象和语言框架不同的事件，并将这一图像作为公共领域辩论的框架;以及在理论上通过媒体事件、媒介化、仪式化和神圣化的概念，以揭示从世俗话语到宗教话语的翻译过程。在某些情况下，大众媒体作为一种“仿佛”(隐喻)宗教工作，事件通过宗教框架呈现——通过来自宗教神圣叙事的主题和人物。记者通过将事件和领导人置于宗教特有的象征框架中来实现这一点:在这个框架中，那些报道事实的人使用的是接近圣徒故事的叙述，通过这种方式，他们完成了这些事件的神圣化。这使记者能够在呈现事件和施加其意义时发挥“仪式掌握”。

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Open Theology RELIGION-

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15 weeks

期刊介绍： Open Theology is an international Open Access, peer-reviewed academic journal that welcomes contributions written in English addressing religion in its various forms and aspects: historical, theological, sociological, psychological, and other. The journal encompasses all major disciplines of Theology and Religious Studies, presenting doctrine, history, organization and everyday life of various types of religious groups and the relations between them. We publish articles from the field of Theology as well as Philosophy, Sociology and Psychology of Religion and also dialogue between Religion and Science. The Open Theology does not present views of any particular theological school nor of a particular religious organization. The contributions are written by researchers who represent different religious views. The authors present their research concerning the old religious traditions as well as new religious movements. The aim of the journal is to promote an international and interdisciplinary dialogue in the field of Theology and Religious Studies. The journal seeks also to provide researchers, pastors and other interested persons with the fruits of academic studies.