News as religion: Practices of mediation in a Catholic community in South India

Q2 Social Sciences
Deepika Rose Alex, Subin Paul
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Abstract

This article examines the relationship between religion and news media through a case study of Deepika, a Malayalam-language daily published in the South Indian state of Kerala. We “thickly describe” the practices of mediation and meaning-making processes of this newspaper’s editors and readers, most of whom are “Syrian Catholics.” Our analysis shows that news functions as, or very similar to, religion for Deepika’s partakers. We thus argue that the newspaper and religion are inseparable for a devout Syrian Catholic, and they concurrently mediate the communal and spiritual longings of the believers.
新闻作为宗教:南印度天主教社区的调解实践
本文通过对印度南部喀拉拉邦出版的马拉雅拉姆语日报《Deepika》的案例研究,探讨了宗教与新闻媒体之间的关系。我们“粗略地描述”了本报编辑和读者的调解和意义创造过程,其中大多数是“叙利亚天主教徒”。我们的分析表明,新闻对迪皮卡的参与者来说是一种宗教,或者非常类似。因此,我们认为,对于一个虔诚的叙利亚天主教徒来说,报纸和宗教是不可分割的,它们同时调解了信徒的社区和精神渴望。
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Newspaper Research Journal
Newspaper Research Journal Social Sciences-Communication
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