Media and Religion

2025/2026

Учебный год

ENG

Обучение ведется на английском языке

3

Кредиты

Кто читает:

Институт медиа

Статус:

Курс по выбору

Когда читается:

1-й курс, 4 модуль

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).