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Mass-media, religie şi spaţiu public
Media, Religion and Public Space

Author(s): Gheorghe Falca
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Universităţii Vasile Goldiş
Keywords: religion; politics; public space; influence; faith; culture; rational; mass-media; religie; politică; spaţiu public; influenţă; credinţă; cultură; raţional; mass-media

Summary/Abstract: Relations between religion and politics are complex and paradoxical. Both strive to achieve and maintain power. Both politics and religion involve control over social relations and emphasiye social integration (politics in its concern for order in society, and religion in its concern for observance of order and obligations within the congregation). But they differ in respect of specific goals, the values that ascribe to power and differences in their conceptions of the nature and source of power. In the modern world, power, embodied in political institutions, is secular; in the past, its association with religion created a transcendental relationship, causing the possession of power to be of different quality, to come from another world. But, while politics is focused on interpersonal relationships, religion is more oriented towards relations between humans and gods or other spiritual forces.

  • Issue Year: VII/2011
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 171-176
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Romanian