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Modernizace, krize a náboženství: Média a šíření detradicionalizované religiozity
| Title in English | Modernization, Crisis and Religion: Media and the Spread of Detraditionalized Religiosity |
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | In this article I am tracing the common origin of the individualized detraditionalized, un-churched religiosity and the modern churches under the conditions of modern secular society with special reference to the mass spread of literacy and of the communication mediated by printed media. Despite the fact that these two forms of religiosity are usually understood as contrasting and mutually exclusive categories, I demonstrate that we will understand the role of religion in contemporary society better if we see them as two different ways of accommodating religion to the same conditions of modernity. I contrast these two forms of religion to the traditional modes of religiosity in oral and manuscript societies, and I show that if we understand "religion" to be the thing which is practiced in modern churches, then it is a product of secularization/modernization and does not have much in common with what we call "religion" with reference to traditional societies. |
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