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Mediating Religious Matters on European PSB Television |
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GUYOT Jacques |
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Affiliation: Université Paris 8 Vincennes |
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Keywords: Social and Cultural Issues |
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| Abstract: | Recently in France, debates around the prohibition of religious signs in schools raised a controversy aimed at the Republican doctrine of “laïcité”. In Voltaire country, the vote of the 2004 act reactivated historical clashes between the defenders of a clear-cut separation of the Church and the State who think that expressing one’s faith should be a private matter and those who wish to bring changes in order to take into account religious idiosyncrasies in the public sphere. Such debates also occur in other European countries : the Mohammed caricatures in Denmark or the attempts to integrate a reference to Christianity in the European Constitution were thoroughly-commented controversial issues.
Audiovisual media echo and crystallize these issues. In that particular context, how do European PSB televisions, which are supposed to embody values of pluralism, deal with religious matters ?
The French case is a good way to assess the paradoxes related to the expression on PSB televisions of what Régis Debray calls the “religious fact” and compare it with the other European countries. Two kinds of TV programmes are analysed : religious broadcast produced by denominations and news on religious issues. |
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