Mediatizing Secular State : Media, Religion and Politics in Contemporary Poland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dobek-Ostrowska, Bogusława.

Contributor:

Guzek, Damian.

Series:

Studies in Communication and Politics Series

Studies in Communication and Politics Series ; v.8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church and mass media--Poland--History--21st century.

Church and mass media.

Poland.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2019.

Summary:

The book provides an analysis of the way various political and religious actors seek to influence the Church and state relationship as well as how we understand the idea of the secular state. A set of case studies shows how and why changes in the coverage of the secular state and Church-state relations have followed the dynamics of mediatization.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright information

Acknowledgments

Contents

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I

1 State secularity in context

1.1 Shaping the Church-state relationship according to models

1.2 Understanding the secular state

1.3 Differentiating la ï cit é , neutrality, and impartiality

1.4 The secular state's ways of accommodating conscientious exemptions

1.5 The secular state on the fusion of national and religious identity

1.6 Understanding civil religion

1.7 The place of public religion

1.8 Lasting Polish religiosity in context

2 The notion of mediatization

2.1 Traditions of mediatization research

2.2 Defining mediatization

2.3 Mediatization epistemology: The grand theory or the theory of middle range?

2.4 Understanding media institutions

2.5 Differentiating media

2.6 Understanding media logic

2.7 Components of media logic

2.8 Forms and objects of mediatization

2.9 Operationalizing mediatization research

2.10 Mediatization affects the media effect

3 Mediatization of religion and politics

3.1 Designating mediatization of religion

3.2 Understanding mediatization of religion

3.3 Three forms of mediatized religion

3.4 Spheres of mediatized religion

3.5 Mediatization in the context of secularization

3.6 Mediatization in the context of republicization

3.7 Conditions and consequences of the mediatization of religion

3.8 Conceptualizing the mediatization of politics

3.9 Media logic versus political logic

3.10 Results of the mediatization of politics

Part II

4 Methodological background

4.1 Introduction to the research design

4.2 Materials

4.3 First stage: Media content analysis

4.4 Second stage: The grounded theory

4.5 Third stage: Survey questionnaires

4.6 Triangulation of the methods.

5 Covering the secular and Church-state relationship

5.1 The secular state and the Church-state relationship: A quantitative overview

5.2 Placing the secular state and secularity in the quantitative material

5.3 Who is important: Political actors

5.4 Who is important: Religious actors

5.5 Locating the agency: Believers, non-believers, and covered confessions

5.6 Religion becoming public

6 On the way to the secular state

6.1 The secular state and Church-state relationship: A qualitative overview

6.2 The incoherent debate over the secular state

6.3 Political agents get mediatized

6.4 Religious agents get mediatized

6.5 Covering the fusion of religion and state

7 In search of the mediatization effect

7.1 Sources of knowledge about a secular state

7.2 Not very attractive Church-state issues

7.3 "Where's the cross?"

7.4 Between secularity and state impartiality

7.5 Reconsidering the mediatization effect

Conclusion: Church-state issues seen through the prism of the mediatization theory

Poland's way of creating an endorsed Church

Shaping the concepts

Religious issues get mediatized

Political issues get mediatized

Insight into the mediation of the secular state

Appendix

List of Figures

References

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

OCLC:

1438673100