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Religion and the Media: Continuity, Complexity, and Mediatization

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Religious Complexity in the Public Sphere

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This chapter begins with a presentation of the particular features of the Nordic media systems and their transformations since 1980. The following analyzes three forms of mediatized religion: journalism on religion (in major newspapers), religion in popular media (popular magazines and films), and religious media (religious programs in the public service broadcasting and the Internet presentations by the Nordic majority churches). The conclusions show no simple pattern of a decline or resurgence of the visibility of religion in the media. This chapter also asks what the media do to religion (mediatization theory), and concludes that the media genre has a profound impact on the representation of religion, which results in a complex pattern of increased diversity of topics and perspectives.

Section 5.1 is written by Knut Lundby with Mia Lövheim, Henrik Reintoft Christensen and Kati Niemelä. Section 5.2 is done by Lövheim with Lundby. Section 5.3 is written by Christensen with material from all the countries. Sofia Sjö has written about film in Sect. 5.4, and Ann Kristin Gresaker about magazines. Lundby has edited Sect. 5.5 on broadcasting with input from Lövheim, Niemelä, and Árni Svanur Daníelsson. Marcus Moberg has written Sect. 5.5 on the Internet with some input from Daníelsson and edited by Lundby. Section 5.6 is written by Christensen with reference to national reports by Lövheim, Lundby and Sjö. Lundby drafted the conclusions in Sect. 5.7, which were discussed by all the authors, who have also commented each other’s texts. Lundby has had the overall editorial responsibility for the chapter.

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    Knut Lundby

  2. Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

    Henrik Reintoft Christensen

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    Ann Kristin Gresaker

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Lundby, K. et al. (2018). Religion and the Media: Continuity, Complexity, and Mediatization. In: Furseth, I. (eds) Religious Complexity in the Public Sphere. Palgrave Studies in Religion, Politics, and Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55678-9_5

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