Abstract

 Religion continues to evolve on both sides of the North Atlantic. In both contexts, traditional ways of understanding religion are confronted by new realities. The emerging and growing influence of modern media and media institutions are important causes of these changes. It is no longer possible to think of ‘religion’ and ‘secular’ as separate categories when ‘secular’ media increasingly define and deploy religious images, interests, and networks, displacing the influence of traditional authorities. The role of media in these trends is especially obvious in relation the emerging politics of populism, nationalism, and retrenchment. The media operate in a number of registers in these relations, including their textual, institutional, and practical dimensions.
Highlights
It is increasingly clear that to understand religion in the twenty-first century, we must [1] understand media and the ways that religion and religions are being remade through their interaction with modern media
It is my purpose here to lay out some of the groundwork for such a project, one that I hope will encourage the centering of media and religion—or rather the linkage between media and religion—in the theoretical and conceptual repertoire addressed at this changing landscape
The Changing Face of Media and Religion. These three cases show the challenge of accounting for the ever-changing mediascape and [41] its implications for the world of religion
Summary
It is increasingly clear that to understand religion in the twenty-first century, we must [1] understand media and the ways that religion and religions are being remade through their interaction with modern media. Recent political developments in the U.S and in Europe have presented an ever more obvious case of the ways that new religious formations, in the area of politics, are of increasing importance and that to understand them, we must account for their instantiation in modern media forms and channels. It is the purpose of this essay to present a historically rooted analysis from the perspective of media scholarship. It is my purpose here to lay out some of the groundwork for such a project, one that I hope will encourage the centering of media and religion—or rather the linkage between media and religion—in the theoretical and conceptual repertoire addressed at this changing landscape
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