[ecrea] ECREA Media and Religion TWG 2015 workshop - cfp Media, Religion and Politics – from sacralization to profanation

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Media, Religion and Politics – from sacralization to profanation
Bucharest Media and Religion TWG workshop
19-22 November 2015

The recent events taking place in France attracted once again the
attention on the complex relationship between religion, politics, and
the media. The tragedy of these events and the political and media
mobilization that followed run the risk to project them into a
singularity cone.  However, periodically, the old tension between
religion and politics, now inter-mediate by the cultural industries
and the media, reappears in forms more or less obvious. Mostly, this
tension is manifested through the dialectic between sacralization and
profanation: elements that from the perspective of politics, media or
popular culture appear as profane, are integrated and claimed by
religion as sacred values; and vice versa elements that are not
considered sacred by the religious canon, are amplified, signified and
lived by the participants in the political life as if they were sacred.

The second Bucharest workshop aims to become an open platform for
debating the relations between sacralization and profanation, as they
are (inter)mediated by media and popular culture. The participants are
invited to address issues such as:
the mediatization of religion and politics;
the mytologization of the journalistic discourse and the sacralization
of a reality through it;
the use of religious archetypes in media, advertising and popular
culture with reference to non-religious figures and events;
online religion and media;
media rituals as means for both sacralization and profanation;
religious/sacred secrets and their publicization;
para-religions/invented religions/fiction based religions (as if religions).

The workshop is organized by the ECREA Media and Religion TWG, in
cooperation with the Doctoral School in Media Studies of Bucharest
University and the AFCOM (Association of Educators in Journalism and
Communication) and will be held in Bucharest (Romania) on November
19-22 2015.

Deadlines:

a. June 30, for abstracts (up to 500 words)
b. September 1,  for Scientific Committee confirmations
c. October 15, for full papers

Send your abstract to Professor, PhD Mihai Coman University of
Bucharest at (mcoman53 /at/ yahoo.com)

More information will posted on on www.mediaandreligion.ro

The best papers will be published in Revista romana  de journalism si
comunicare, which is included in EBSCO,  ProQuest and Scopus databasis



PhD Johanna Sumiala
Assistant Professor (Docent)
Kone Foundation Senior Fellow
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
P.O. Box 4
FIN-00014
University of Helsinki
mobile: + 358 50 311 2522
email: johanna.sumiala[at]helsinki.fi
http://blogs.helsinki.fi/jsumiala/



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