Title: Mediatizing Secular State : Media, Religion and Politics in Contemporary Poland
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Title: Mediatizing Secular State : Media, Religion and Politics in Contemporary Poland Author: Damian Guzek Citation style: Guzek Damian. (2019). Mediatizing Secular State : Media, Religion and Politics in Contemporary Poland. Berlin : Peter Lang, doi 10.3726/b15404 Wydanie książki dofinansowane ze środków Uniwersytetu Śląskiego w Katowicach. Książka udostępniona w otwartym dostępie na podstawie umowy między Uniwersytetem Śląskim a wydawcą. Książkę możesz pobierać z Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Śląskiego i korzystać z niej w ramach dozwolonego użytku. Aby móc umieścić pliki książki na innym serwerze, musisz uzyskać zgodę wydawcy (możesz jednak zamieszczać linki do książki na serwerze Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Śląskiego). Studies in Communication and Politics 8 8 Studies in Communication and Politics 8 Damian Guzek Damian Guzek Damian Guzek Damian Mediatizing Secular State The book provides an empirically based analysis of changes on how various political and denominational actors seek to influence the Church and state Mediatizing Secular State relationship, as well as how we understand the idea of the secular state. A set of case studies shows how and why changes in the coverage of the secular Media, Religion and Politics state and Church-state relations have followed the dynamics of media logic. By establishing a grounded theory based on media content, legal regulations and in Contemporary Poland political party programs in the years 1989–2015 as well as a current survey, the author throws new light on the theory of mediatization. The book demonstrates that the disseminated idea of the secular state is largely a result of the adaptation of both political and religious representatives to a dynamically changing media logic. “The book is the first study of this kind showing the Polish perspective. It is an Mediatizing Secular State. interesting and important source of information for those who want to trace the media picture of relations between the Polish state and the institution of the Roman Catholic Church, representing the largest religious community in Poland.” Professor Dorota Piontek, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan´ The Author Damian Guzek is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Silesia in Katowice. He was a visiting fellow at the School of Humanities, Keele University and visiting fellow at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh. In 2017, he conducted the Visby postdoctoral research andMedia, in Religion Politics Contemporary Poland project at the Centre for Religion and Society, Uppsala University. ISBN 978-3-631-77535-6 Mediatizing Secular State STUDIES IN COMMUNICATION AND POLITICS Edited by Bogusława Dobek-Ostrowska and Michał Głowacki VOL. 8 Notes on the quality assurance and peer review of this publication Prior to publication, the quality of the work published in this series is reviewed by an external referee appointed by the editorship. Damian Guzek Mediatizing Secular State Media, Religion and Politics in Contemporary Poland Bibliographic Information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. The work was supported by the National Science Centre, Poland under grant number UMO-2014/15/N/HS5/00646 entitled "Media towards the idea of a secular state". The research grant was carried out at the University of Silesia in Katowice Reviewed by Dorota Piontek ISSN 2197-1625 ISBN 978-3-631-77535-6 (Print) E-ISBN 978-3-631-77866-1 (E-PDF) E-ISBN 978-3-631-77867-8 (EPUB) E-ISBN 978-3-631-77868-5 (MOBI) DOI 10.3726/b15404 © Peter Lang GmbH Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Berlin 2019 All rights reserved. Peter Lang – Berlin · Bern · Bruxelles · New York · Oxford · Warszawa · Wien All parts of this publication are protected by copyright. Any utilisation outside the strict limits of the copyright law, without the permission of the publisher, is forbidden and liable to prosecution. This applies in particular to reproductions, translations, microfilming, and storage and processing in electronic retrieval systems. This publication has been peer reviewed. www.peterlang.com To Marek Jachimowski Acknowledgments First, I would like to acknowledge that Prof. Marek Jachimowski facilitated the development of this book at the University of Silesia, and Prof. Elisabeth Poole supported the idea of the book by sponsoring my research stay at Keele University. I thank Prof. Dorota Piontek, reviewer and Prof. Bogusława Dobek- Ostrowska, the series editor, for their careful reading and comments. I also thank Dr. Dagmara Głuszek Szafraniec and Dr. Marta Kołodziejska for commenting on my drafts of this study. I would like to thank Jan Kobylecki for his transla- tion work. Second, I would like to thank all of the representatives of various institutions for their invaluable support and helping me obtain the research mate- rial: Ewa Borkowska and Jacek Owczarczyk from the Public Television Archive at TVP, Prof. Irena Słodkowska, and Robert Michałowski from the Archive of Political Parties at the Polish Academy of Science. Third, I would like to thank all who helped me write a successful grant proposal and carry out this project: Prof. Janusz Bójnicki, Prof. Grażyna Jurkowlaniec, Prof. Patrycja Szostok, Dr. Dagmara Głuszek-Szafraniec, Dr. Joanna Soćko, Dr. Agata Wilczek, and Paweł Szulc. Fourth, I would like to thank my colleagues from the University of Silesia, Keele University, and Uppsala University for our stimulating conversations that led to improving the concept of this book, in particular Prof. Anthony Bradney, Dr. Yossi Nehushtan, Dr. Ekaterina Grishaeva, Dr. Mateusz Płotkowiak, Dr. Paweł Sarna, Dr. Katarzyna Brzoza, and again the invaluable assistance of Dr. Dagmara Głuszek-Szafraniec. Finally, I would like to thank the National Science Centre in Poland for funding my research work and the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Silesia in Katowice for “housing” this project. Contents Abbreviation ........................................................................................................ 13 Introduction ........................................................................................................ 15 Part I 1 State secularity in context ........................................................................ 31 1.1 Shaping the Church-state relationship according to models ................ 31 1.2 Understanding the secular state ................................................................ 33 1.3 Differentiatinglaïcité , neutrality, and impartiality ................................. 36 1.4 The secular state’s ways of accommodating conscientious exemptions ................................................................................................... 39 1.5 The secular state on the fusion of national and religious identity ........ 42 1.6 Understanding civil religion ...................................................................... 44 1.7 The place of public religion ........................................................................ 47 1.8 Lasting Polish religiosity in context .......................................................... 51 2 The notion of mediatization .................................................................... 55 2.1 Traditions of mediatization research ........................................................ 55 2.2 Defining mediatization .............................................................................. 57 2.3 Mediatization epistemology: The grand theory or the theory of middle range? .............................................................................................. 60 2.4 Understanding media institutions ............................................................ 63 2.5 Differentiating media ................................................................................. 65 2.6 Understanding media logic ....................................................................... 68 2.7 Components of media logic ...................................................................... 72 10 Contents 2.8 Forms and objects of mediatization ..................................................... 75 2.9 Operationalizing mediatization research ............................................ 77 2.10 Mediatization affects the media effect .................................................. 79 3 Mediatization of religion and politics .............................................. 83 3.1 Designating mediatization of religion .................................................. 83 3.2 Understanding mediatization of religion ............................................ 85 3.3 Three forms of mediatized religion ...................................................... 86 3.4 Spheres of mediatized religion .............................................................. 89 3.5 Mediatization in the context of secularization .................................... 92 3.6 Mediatization in the context of republicization .................................. 94 3.7 Conditions and consequences of the mediatization of religion ....... 96 3.8 Conceptualizing the mediatization of politics .................................... 99 3.9 Media logic versus political logic .......................................................