Abstract
Based on the post-1989 Cultural Geography studies and the Geographic studies of Religion, the present essay aimed to explore the relationship between religion and media in the age of 2.0, the age of social networks and the diffusion of media. In order to achieve this goal, we tried to understand how these new social relations occur through hypermodernity, which is characterized by the culture of excess, the intensification of values and a greater diversification of production aimed at consumption. We have also discussed how the process of development and propagation of the media and the cyberspace create new strategies for diffusion of faith. Through political, economic and local dimensions, we were able to understand the new connections between the sacred, the faith and the new dynamics of hypermodern society. The Roman Catholic Church in Brazil and the new spatial and territorial transformations through cyberspace and media are the empirical examples of the present research.
Highlights
When we think of geography as a science and its different domains and approaches in the geographic field, we are surprised by some research fields, usually more common to the domain of other areas of knowledge, such as the social and human sciences
Religion is a valuable field of analysis for Geography, once through faith: a) cities were and are built; b) urban and social transformations are implemented; c) wars and conflicts are fought; d) duels and media battles arise in different media and in cyberspace; e) the economy are changed by a new dynamism and; f) the market of symbolic goods gain a new economic force of production and sales from the spectacularization of the faith
The geography of religion focuses on the relations between space and the sacred (ROSENDAHL, 2008)
Summary
When we think of geography as a science and its different domains and approaches in the geographic field, we are surprised by some research fields, usually more common to the domain of other areas of knowledge, such as the social and human sciences. We present here some elements that are of interest to the geographer, as we will see throughout this essay In this way, the geography of religion focuses on the relations between space and the sacred (ROSENDAHL, 2008). “geographers have traditionally been concerned with spatial patterns, distributions and manifestations of people and the environment” In his studies the American geographer Roger Stump (2008, p.7) points out that religion “(...) is interpreted throughout this volume as a cultural system, an integrated complex of meanings, symbols, and behaviors articulated by a community of adherents”. Its particular concern is with two kinds of relationships: the interaction between culture and its complex earth environment, and the spatial interaction between different cultures” From this information, the author reveals that the geography of religion “(...) investigates these relationships, concentrating its attention on the religious component in culture”. In order to achieve the proposed goals, this essay is divided into three parts: a) Hypermodernity and world culture; b) Faith, space and time in the 21st Century: the power of the media and new religious practices; c) Brazilian Catholicism and the mediatization of faith as a strategy of evangelization
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