Mediatyzacja religii w Polsce. Wybrane aspekty w kontekście koncepcji S.Hjarvarda
The mediatisation of religion in Poland. chosen aspects in the context of S. Hjarvard’s concept

Summary/Abstract: The contemporary cooperation between religion and the media is multi-dimensional, since the media are becoming both a platform of propagating messages and a tool supporting evangelisation as well as being an element influencing conceptions and also semantic and symbolic resources. In this context the media create favourable conditions for strengthening the presence of religion in the public sphere, although the socio-cultural results of mediatisation of _ religious contents are not always coherent with the aims of religious institutions. After all, the supremacy of the media is connected with – according to S. Hjarvard’s concept of mediatisation – the necessity of subordinating religion to the logics and pragmatics of the media, which contribute to the changes in the forms of presence of religion, as well as the contexts it is embedded in. According to S. Hjarvard’s viewpoint, the sacred appears in the public sphere in the following three forms: religious media, journalism on religion and banal religion. Two of the mentioned forms of functioning of religion in the public sphere in Polish conditions will be outlined in this article, namely the segment of the religious media will be presented and the field of journalism concerning the religious subject matter associated with the World Youth Day will be discussed briefly. Although both forms contribute to increasing the saturation of the public discourse with religious contents, at the same time they indicate the areas of challenges concerning the developing cooperation between the media and religion.

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