Course Title: Christianity, culture, media
Credits: 6
Code: BBNKM01800
Type of course (lecture/seminar) and hours per week/semester: (lecture) 2/30
Method of assessment (exam/practical grade): exam
Suggested semester: 6
Prerequisites (if any): consultation twice a month
Course description:
The lecture musters the traditional and secularised forms of our culture conception and
reviews the wide phenomenon system through the framework of culture and religion,
religion and media, culture and media, in which all the different phrasings (sophistry, art,
churches, science, politics etc.) refer to a domain being wider and more complex than any
other approach’s content. That is why the right method has to be found, which unfolds both
the question and the various perceptions in due depth, and considers the toolkit of
language-philosophy and religion-philosophy in order to qualify us to draw communication
theoretical conclusions.
Required and recommended reading:
R. Shaw: Nothing to hide. San Francisco, 2008.13-37; 65-92; 149-164
B. Vogt: The Church and New Media. Indiana, 2011.25-43; 73-87; 163-177
T.S. Eliot: Selected Essays. 1967. 21-34; 110-124
S.M. Hoover: Religionin the Media Age. London-New York, 2006. 27-83; 113-146; 233263.
Lecturers participating in teaching: Ákos Kovács PhD