What is it about?
This chapter of the book "Religious Complexity in the Public Sphere" (edited by Inger Furseth) displays and discusses the role of the media in transformations of public religion in the Nordic countries from about 1980 to 2015. Particular emphasis is put on print journalism and popular media. The changes are seen as continuity as well as part of a growing complexity, understood in the perspective of mediatization theory.
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Why is it important?
The visibility of religion in the media is of key importance when trying to understand the public role of religion.
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This chapter is the outcome of a long-term term cooperation between scholars in media studies as well as religious studies, from Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden. We worked together within the larger frame of the research project on religion in the public sphere in the Nordic region (the NOREL project), directed by Inger Furseth.
Professor emeritus Knut Lundby
University of Oslo
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This page is a summary of: Religion and the Media: Continuity, Complexity, and Mediatization, August 2017, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-55678-9_5.
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