Kirchliche Räume zwischen Religion und Populärkultur

This article discusses the role of popular culture in religious events, focusing on built space and atmosphere using the example of a young Catholic initiative in Germany. While the topic “religion and popular culture” has received much scholarly attention, a focus on popular cultural atmospheres an...

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Published in:Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte
Main Author: Radermacher, Martin 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:German
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Published: Brill 2022
In: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Pop culture / Folk religion / Mood / Conception
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AE Psychology of religion
RC Liturgy
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Summary:This article discusses the role of popular culture in religious events, focusing on built space and atmosphere using the example of a young Catholic initiative in Germany. While the topic “religion and popular culture” has received much scholarly attention, a focus on popular cultural atmospheres and their adaption in religious contexts remains a research gap. In order to analytically outline the relationship between religion and popular culture, the author proposes a differentiation and systems-theoretical approach while referring to the concept of “popular religion” (Hubert Knoblauch). The article first introduces the concepts of “popular culture,” “popular religion” as well as “atmosphere” and then discusses, on the basis of a case study and empirical surveys, the relationship between popular cultural and religious elements in the spatial and atmospheric setting of the initiative under investigation. Eventually, the author suggests that talk of a “dissolution of boundaries” (Entgrenzung) between religion and popular culture is only partially accurate because distinctions between religious and non-religious domains continue to be made both in the field and in analytical reconstruction.
ISSN:1570-0739
Contains:Enthalten in: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700739-07403003