RLB266 Media and the Contemporary Religiousness

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2009
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 5 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Milan Fujda, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. PhDr. Dušan Lužný, Dr.
Department for the Study of Religions – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Lucie Čelková
Timetable
Wed 11:40–13:15 N41
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course is based on a presupposition that transformations and the growing importance of media in everyday-life in modern society influence inevitably what forms and significance religion overtakes, and how symbolic resources of religions are exhausted in processes of identity forming and social negotiation in the public sphere. The ways religion is formed in contemporary highly mediated world and how to study them are the main issue of the course.
At the end of this course, students should be able to:
- discusse the issues concerning the relation between media and forming of religion;
- identify principle questions of the contemporary academic study in the field;
- evaluate the results of the contemporary study;
- formulate research questions relevant to contemporary discussions in the field.
Syllabus
  • Organisational information
  • Media and Shifting Identities
  • Religion, Media, and Culture
  • Network Society: The Culture of Real Virtuality
  • Electronic Media and the Decline of Traditional Churches
  • Tele-evangelism: Secondary Orality and Social Solidarity
  • Religion, Media and Fashion(-lifestyles)
  • Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere
  • Religion and Social Mobilization: Media and Symbols as Cultural Resources
  • Media and Ritual
  • Religion, Media, and Methodology in the Study of Religions
  • Presentation of students' essays I Presentation of students' essays II
Literature
  • Religion, media, and the marketplace. Edited by Lynn Schofield Clark. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University, 2007, xviii, 325. ISBN 9780813540184. info
  • Religion, media, and the public sphere. Edited by Birgit Meyer - Annelies Moors. Bloomington: Indiana University, 2006, vi, 325. ISBN 0253217970. info
  • Practicing religion in the age of the media : explorations in media, religion, and culture. Edited by Lynn Schofield Clark - Stewart M. Hoover. New York: Columbia University, 2002, x, 386. ISBN 0231120893. info
  • Religion and media. Edited by Hent de Vries - Samuel Weber. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2001, xvii, 649. ISBN 0804734976. info
  • The rise of the network society. Edited by Manuel Castells. 2nd ed. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 2000, xxix, 594. ISBN 0-631-22140-9. info
  • Rethinking media, religion, and culture. Edited by Stewart M. Hoover - Knut Lundby. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications, 1997, x, 332. ISBN 076190171X. info
Teaching methods
Seminar discussions, seminar tasks, homeworks (writing position papers, writing essays).
Assessment methods
1) Submission of an essay. Esej must be submitted on the deadline. If it is not, it is taken as a fail by a colloquium.
2) Presentation of an essay during the seminar.
2) Active participation in seminar activities or the submission of position papers on the reading. Position papers must be submitted at least on sevetnth day after a seminar to which the commented paper relates.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
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