Abstract:This article concerns the configuration of religion in the media sector of modern Korea. With the globalization of the modern world, mass media have increasingly become a differentiated field of communication through which to process various understandings of the religious or the spiritual in any given society. This article focuses on how religion is presented in the news media such as newspapers and broadcasters in contemporary South Korea. Since the 1990s, the media industry in Korean society has rapidly turned into an autonomous profession as the nation-state has made great progress toward democracy and social reformation. In this new social context, a majority of media workers have internalized the standards of liberal or even progressive journalism. Reflecting on the socio-political shift, media professionals have actively produced information and assessments about different religious groups, many of which are concerned with cultural, anti-social, and sensational dimensions of religion. The author studies the underlying trends and logic in the media's articulation of religion, which are selectively intertwined with the secular and religious constellation of Korean society.

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新闻中的宗教：韩国新闻媒体中的宗教建构

摘要：本文关注现代韩国媒体界的宗教配置。随着现代世界的全球化，大众媒体日益成为一个差异化的传播领域，通过它来处理任何特定社会中对宗教或精神的各种理解。本文重点介绍宗教在当代韩国的报纸和广播等新闻媒体中的呈现方式。自 1990 年代以来，随着民族国家在民主和社会改革方面取得巨大进步，韩国社会的媒体业迅速转变为自主行业。在这种新的社会背景下，大多数媒体工作者已经内化了自由主义甚至进步新闻的标准。反思社会政治的转变，媒体专业人士积极制作关于不同宗教团体的信息和评估，其中许多与宗教的文化、反社会和耸人听闻的层面有关。作者研究了媒体表达宗教的潜在趋势和逻辑，它们选择性地与韩国社会的世俗和宗教星座交织在一起。