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RELIGION AS COMMUNICATION CONTEMPORARY SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY CONTEMPLATIONS
Ivan Markešić
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In this paper the author deals with the so far insufficiently treated topic: religion as communication. In the introduction, it
is pointed out that communication in a modern society has become most frequently used concept, because of which it is
also more and more talked about basic and systematic changes of the communicational culture .
The essential hypothesis that author wants to verify in this paper is the following: if one of the ‘products’ of the development
of a modern society is communication, then the religious system also, as one of irreplaceable, permanent constants of
all human societies up to now, can in this sense carry out the function of a communication medium.
In the process of proving the set hypothesis, the author in the first part of the text makes us familiar with the basic notions
(religion and communication) and their significance in a society, while in the second part, he shows us the spiritual
situation of the epoch in which the indicated process of communication begins. Talking in the third part about new media
and new media societies, the author points out religion as one of the aspects of modern communication. But, in what way
can religion become a communicational medium, the author shows us in the fourth part, on the basis of the theory of
communication of J. Habermas, phenomenological standpoint of P. L. Berger and T. Luckmann as well as systemic-theory
standpoint of N. Luhmann.
Ključne riječi
communication; religion; society; globalisation; culture; activity; system
Hrčak ID:
9134
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Datum izdavanja:
15.1.2005.
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