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This course is designed to introduce undergraduate students of Journalism Faculty complexity of religious life in general and importance of the correct covering of this very sensitive object.
Essential part of the course is focused on particular issues of contemporary Russian society, secularization ands de-secularization processes, mass media role in mediatization of the tensions between religious groups and society.
Objectives
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
• differentiate historical and theoretical aspects of the relations between religion and media;
• follow legal and ethical norms and principles of covering religious life in media;
• obtain sufficient skills for oral presentations and class discussions;
• to conduct research in the field of "religion-media" relations (case-study, trace-study, content-analysis, comparative study);
• to write an analytical story on the contemporary religion situation in Russia