Closed Churches during the Pandemic: Liberal versus Conservative and Christian versus Atheist Argumentation in Media

Rončáková, Terézia

doi:10.3390/journalmedia2020013

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“…The focus was on how the digital switchover was implemented by the churches during the months of closure. American research (Campbell 2020a(Campbell , 2020b(Campbell , 2020c has also been supplemented with European analyzes (Przywara et al 2021;Rončáková 2021;Tudor et al 2021). The present study explains the Hungarian situation, highlighting the generational differences in the behavior of believers.…”

Section: Summary Of Research-relevant Literature On Digital Religionmentioning

confidence: 75%

Trends in Online Religious Processes during the Coronavirus Pandemic in Hungary—Digital Media Use and Generational Differences

Andok

2021

Religions

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The present study shows how Hungarian churches and religious communities responded to the physical closure and relocation to online spaces in the spring of 2020, since while physical gates became closed, digital gates became opened. In the churches, work began in two directions with particular intensity. On the one hand, they organized their online appearance. On the other hand, they began to rethink their theological reflections on the possibilities of digital technology. The study also analyses both the event- and community-based presence of the churches as well as what they broadcast to their believers. The intention was to find the answer to what the presence of the camera meant in the process of live broadcasting, with a special focus on the visual elements and procedures that differed from the visual perception of real presence during streaming: the camera movement, the different viewing angles, the location of the cameras, the cut, and the sound quality. In other words, the believers had a new visual experience, an optical representation of reality, which afforded them a new type of interactivity and participation. In addition, the study highlights the generational differences that can be explored in digital transitions.

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Section: Summary Of Research-relevant Literature On Digital Religionmentioning

confidence: 75%

Trends in Online Religious Processes during the Coronavirus Pandemic in Hungary—Digital Media Use and Generational Differences

Andok

2021

Religions

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“…Buradan hareketle korona virüs salgınıyla belirginleşen rasyonel ve dünyevi insan figürü, salgın sonrasında yerini maneviyatçı veya mistik öğretilere daha fazla yönelen, bir gruba ait olmadan dini yaşamaya çalışan bir insana bırakabilir (Chopra, 2020;Goldstein, 2020;Kirby vd., 2020). Ayrıca salgın sonrasında dinin radikal bir değişime uğrayacağı ve geleneksel dinȋ yapının sekülerliğe ya da ezoterik spiritüalizme, dindar olmaktan inançsızlığa yönelişlerin ODÜ Sosyal Bilimler Araştırmaları Dergisi / ISSN: 1309-9302 / dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/odusobiad • olabileceğini savunan görüşler de mevcuttur (Bulut & Koç, 2022;Rončáková, 2021;Sevinç, 2021;Spitzenstätter & Schnell, 2022).…”

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Transformation of Social and Religious Life in the Covid-19 Epidemic Process: A Psychosocial Analysis

Baltacı

2022

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This study focuses on the changes witnessed in social life throughout the Covid-19 epidemic period, particularly how the pandemic affected religious institutions. The study, which employs psychosocial analysis, investigates the alteration of social and religious life in the presence of diverse social psychology theories. During and after the epidemic, religion strives to adapt to fluid change and tries to produce a new form of belief and religiosity that will soothe anxious people, in contrast to its traditional form, in a process of radical change and social erosion in which discourses such as 'nothing will be the same as before' are frequently voiced. The fact that religion and religiosity are pregnant with new manifestations throughout the epidemic process might be regarded as an adaptation reaction or a crucial reaction to the synthetic alteration that has already begun to be felt. Religion aims to achieve a shape that takes care of the changing requirements of the person and directs his life by keeping its unchanging principles. He even took the risk of mixing secular, metaphysical, astrological, and paranormal components within himself to achieve this goal. Finally, contrary to standard secularization theorists' forecasts that religion will vanish, religion will evolve after the pandemic and continue to exist in a society that will become even more digital, a form of post-corona religiosity. By stressing the transition dynamics experienced during the epidemic era, it is intended that the research would create new topics of discussion and contribute to the field of sociology.

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“…Existing sociological inquiry dealing with the relationship between church and state is mostly concerned with the number of believers (Bunčák, 2001;Hamplová & Nešpor, 2009;Spousta, 2002;Tížik, 2012;Váně & Štípková, 2013), typologies and degrees of religiosity (Hamplová, 2013;Lužný & Nešpor, 2008). In the Czech context, research deals with the discursive aspects of the state-church relationship only marginally (Enyedi & O'Mahony, 2004;Václavík, 2016) or covers only a short (Koudelková, 2021;Šmídová, 2012) or specific case (Lužný, 2021;Rončáková, 2021). Other discursive studies are concerned with agenda setting, elaborating on methodological issues of focusing events (Váně & Kalvas, 2013), or exploring the Roman Catholic Church's ability to set the public agenda (Váně & Kalvas, 2011).…”

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Between Politicisation and Depoliticisation: Restitution of Church Property in Czech Republic

Frantová,

Haas

2024

Czech Sociological Review

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Elaborating on the process of the restitution of church property in the Czech Republic after the fall of the communist regime, this paper stresses the discursive dimension of this process. To obtain information on the main arguments for and against restitution, we selected two mainstream daily newspapers, the centre-right Lidové noviny and centre-left Právo, and the 'official' church media of the two largest churches seeking restitution in the Czech Republic: Katolický týdeník, the official paper of the Roman Catholic Church, and the monthly Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren magazine, Český bratr. All selected sources covered the 1990-2019 period. Our analysis of the media debate helps to determine why restitution in the Czech Republic -an interesting case given that it is perceived as the most atheistic country of the Visegrad Four -took its unique direction. It took more than twenty years for the churches to receive their relatively generous compensation and, at the same time, become separated from the state. Linking the theoretical concept of discursive depoliticisation with an argumentative analysis allows us to show that emphasis of the spiritual contribution of churches to society did not play a key supporting role in legitimising the restitution. The enactment of restitution was aided by two widely shared, morally oriented depoliticised sentiments: a neoliberal emphasis on private property and efficient management and an emphasis on the defence of constitutionality reinforced by anticommunist sentiments.

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Closed Churches during the Pandemic: Liberal versus Conservative and Christian versus Atheist Argumentation in Media

Cited by 7 publications

References 31 publications

Trends in Online Religious Processes during the Coronavirus Pandemic in Hungary—Digital Media Use and Generational Differences

Trends in Online Religious Processes during the Coronavirus Pandemic in Hungary—Digital Media Use and Generational Differences

Transformation of Social and Religious Life in the Covid-19 Epidemic Process: A Psychosocial Analysis

Between Politicisation and Depoliticisation: Restitution of Church Property in Czech Republic

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