Lecture 5

Question 1

Disambiguation

Answer 1

Religion as a mediating practice (Meyer)

Media as forms (objects, rituals, bodies, spaces) which make a present transcendent reality

Question 2

Media in the more common sense;

Answer 2

Modern media (radio, tv, internet) transfer information from the source to the receiver

Question 3

Mediatization

Answer 3

Modern media shaping social context (Campbell)

Hepp et al. (2010)

Capture long term interrelation occurring between media change on one hand and cultural / social change on the other

displaying the overall change brought by media into every aspect of our lives

Question 4

Campbell, Digital Religion Studies

Answer 4

Internet should not be approach as a;
- technological tool 
- force
but rather as a;
- social context
- space 
= where culture is made and negotiated 

Internet provides unprecedented opportunities and power configurations

Question 5

Digitalisation of religion;

Answer 5

How religion adapts to a digital space

How the digital changes religion

Question 6

Digital religion approach 1. Mediatization

Answer 6

Study of Hjarvaard;

Media as a key structure for the spread of religion and ideas from religion

Focusing on medias role on social and cultural change

ex. having church services online (2020/2021 - more people would join online than offline)

Question 7

Conclusion of 1) Mediatization

Answer 7

Media transforms religion

Mediatization is a facilitator of autonomous spaces

Media aids in destabilizing religious authority

Mediatization occurs when media dominates social order `

Question 8

Digital religion approaches 2) Mediation of meaning

Answer 8

Hoover;

media as an important resource, which helps people to negotiate and express religious beliefs and values within culture.

Question 9

Digital Religion approaches: 2) Mediation of meaning

Answer 9

Hoover;

religion is an important resource - aid people to negotiate and express religious belief and values within culture

ex. how people use media to create religious meaning –> this includes new religious practices

Question 10

Mediation - Silverstone (2005)

Answer 10

process of language whereby meaning is transferred through acts of reception (act of receiving something) and consumption informed by the audiences understanding of the world and themselves

Question 11

Digital religion approaches: 3) Religious-social shaping of digital technology

Answer 11

How religious communities shape and frame media

also; use of digital media to strengthen cultural boundaries

Question 12

Debate on religion; crone vs intellectualists

Answer 12

Intellectualist interpretation: religious knowledge generates violence

crone: radicalisation is an embodied practice of self-governance > art of existence > transforming the self

Question 13

Example from crone

Answer 13

• Young radicalizing Muslims make use of aesthetic technologies rather than intellectual tools.
  o Aesthetic technologies: “assemblages” in which speech, visualities, sound and materialities interact in ways that produce specific “frames” of violence’ (p.292).