| Bibil Identifier |
bibil:251127 |
| Publication Type |
Article of book |
| Title (English, Long) |
The Televisualization of Ritual |
| Title (English, ) |
Spirituality, Spatiality, and Co-presence in Religious Broadcasting |
| Author |
Kopytowska, Monika |
| Edited book |
Religion, Language, and the Human Mind |
| Year (Reference) |
2018 |
| Language |
English |
| Pages |
437-473 Pages |
| Genre |
Original |
| Abstract |
This chapter demonstrates how contemporary ‘media culture’ has altered the way we experience and communicate religion and explains the role which language and other semiotic resources play in mediating religious experience and transforming the notion of sacred space, sacred time and a sense of communion based on collective emotion. The underlying assumption is that media together with religious institutions proximize the spiritual reality to believers and create a community of the faithful by reducing various dimensions of distance and providing the audience with a sense of participation and interaction. The chapter focuses on mediated rituals and demonstrates how both TV and radio, with their semiotic properties enabling liveness and immediacy, blur time-space boundaries, change the nature of individual and collective experience, and enhance the emotional and axiological potential of religious messages. It discusses the role of metaphor and metonymy as well as other cognitive operations within discourse space (involving both verbal and visual strategies) in these processes. |
| DOI |
10.1093/oso/9780190636647.003.0017
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| Keywords |
Thesaurus BiBIL : Unbound Keywords : Mass Media
Thesaurus BiBIL : Unbound Keywords : Emotions |
| Links |
Online document (HTML, English)
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| Last modification |
2018-10-02 |
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