Media and Religion

2025/2026

Academic Year

ENG

Instruction in English

3

ECTS credits

Delivered at:

Institute of Media

Course type:

Elective course

When:

1 year, 4 module

Course Syllabus

Abstract

This course is designed to introduce the complexity of religious life in general and importance of the correct covering of this very sensitive object. Essential part of the course is focused on particular issues of contemporary Russian society, secularization and de-secularization processes (Casanova, Taylor, Hoover), mass media role in discovering and neutralizing the tensions between religious groups and society. The critical perspective is focused both on religion and media as a social institutions in the theoretical frame of dialogue and consensus in the public sphere (Habermas).