Prerequisites
- Religious Studies III at least22,5 hp or equivalent.
Summary in English
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, students should be able to:
Contents
The course highlights and analyzes conditions for the cultural identity of people affected by the increasing presence of media in society. In the course, the consumption of fiction is discussed, as well as the de-traditionalization and increasingly individualized meaning systems of late modern society. The course also deals with the new conditions for existential meaning through visual symbolic representations. It covers various forms of religious content and their presence in popular culture. The course also discusses interpretations and perspectives used in religious studies about the re-enchantment of culture through an increased presence of religious symbols in medialised form, embedded in everyday life as vernacular practice.
After completing the course, students should be able to:
- demonstrate an independent critical understanding of the relationship between religion and the media
- demonstrate a theoretical awareness of the changing conditions for people‘s spiritual meaning-making in a society where the media has an increasingly dominant presence
- discuss complex theories of individualization, de-traditionalization, secularism, and increasingly fragmented meaning systems of late modern society
- critically describe different mediatization processes at different levels in contemporary society
- based on highly specialized knowledge from cutting-edge material in the field, perform critical analyses of the changing conditions for religion as a symbolic resource with popular cultural representations as incentives for processes of sacralization.
Contents
The course highlights and analyzes conditions for the cultural identity of people affected by the increasing presence of media in society. In the course, the consumption of fiction is discussed, as well as the de-traditionalization and increasingly individualized meaning systems of late modern society. The course also deals with the new conditions for existential meaning through visual symbolic representations. It covers various forms of religious content and their presence in popular culture. The course also discusses interpretations and perspectives used in religious studies about the re-enchantment of culture through an increased presence of religious symbols in medialised form, embedded in everyday life as vernacular practice.