Review article
Image of Faith and Church in Croatian Media
Ivica Šola
; Sveučilište J. J. Strossmayer u Osijeku
Abstract
We see the image of faith and Church in Croatian media as a product of five “strategies” that are not designed, but emerged from the spirit of the times. The first strategy, “Pope Francis yes, the Church no”, starts from contextualizing the faith into a society of spectacle in which the Pope’s personality is put before his service, and thus the Pope’s personality and style become the means for showing that the Church is unacceptable. The second strategy, the “strategy of putting to shame”, stems from the first and uses shame as a means of control where the minority controls majority, especially with the help of the third strategy which, in forming the media image of the Church, emphasizes excesses and ignores what is regular. The last two strategies, the trans-substantialization of faith and replacing icon with idol, present the image of the Church positively, but lead to the dangers of cultural Pelagianism due to which the Source of good is dimmed, and only good is praised, where the Church turns into just another humanitarian organization among many.
Keywords
society of spectacle; Church; icon; idol; media
Hrčak ID:
188975
URI
Publication date:
10.10.2017.
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