The Mediatized Conditions of Contemporary Religion: Critical Status and Future Directions

TY - JOUR

T1 - The Mediatized Conditions of Contemporary Religion: Critical Status and Future Directions

AU - Lövheim, Mia

AU - Hjarvard, Stig

PY - 2019/9/15

Y1 - 2019/9/15

N2 - During the last decade the framework of mediatization theory has been introduced in the field of media, religion and culture as a parallel perspective to the "mediation of religion"approach, allowing new questions to be posed that align with religious change within Europe. This article provides a critical review of existing research ap plying mediatization of religion theory, focusing on key issues raised by its critics as well as how the theory have moved the research field forward. These issues concern the concept of religion, institution and social change, religious authority, and the ap plication of mediatization theory outside the North-Western European context where it originated. The article argues that an institutional approach to mediatization is a rel evant tool for analyzing change as a dynamic process in which the logics of particular forms of media influence practices, values and relations within particular manifesta tions of religion across various levels of analysis.

AB - During the last decade the framework of mediatization theory has been introduced in the field of media, religion and culture as a parallel perspective to the "mediation of religion"approach, allowing new questions to be posed that align with religious change within Europe. This article provides a critical review of existing research ap plying mediatization of religion theory, focusing on key issues raised by its critics as well as how the theory have moved the research field forward. These issues concern the concept of religion, institution and social change, religious authority, and the ap plication of mediatization theory outside the North-Western European context where it originated. The article argues that an institutional approach to mediatization is a rel evant tool for analyzing change as a dynamic process in which the logics of particular forms of media influence practices, values and relations within particular manifesta tions of religion across various levels of analysis.

UR - https://brill.com/view/journals/rmdc/8/2/article-p206_206.xml

U2 - 10.1163/21659214-00802002

DO - 10.1163/21659214-00802002

M3 - Journal article

SN - 2588-8099

VL - 8

SP - 206

EP - 225

JO - Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture

JF - Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture

IS - 2

ER -