Media and Religion: Searching for Integral Approach

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Viktor M. Khroul

PhD in Philology, Associate Professor at the Chair of Sociology of Mass Communications, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

e-mail: amen@mail.ru

Section: Theory of Journalism and Media

Author analysеs the international academic discourse on media and religion, describes the existing paradigms and examines the possibility of the integrated approach in this field. Particular attention is paid to the mediatization of religion. Author calls scholars to focus on religion mediatization process in Russian context of increasing interest to the religious issues in public sphere.

Keywords: mass media, religion, research paradigms, mediatization