Portrayals of Pope Francis's Authority in the Digital Age

Flicks and Media Discourses, and User Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-71206-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 29, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 472 g

Reihe: Religion and the Social Order

In a decade, Francis has transformed Catholicism into a dynamic institution that openly deliberates on urgent questions of society and religion, standing at the forefront of digitally driven public opinion. With this in mind, Portrayals of Pope Francis’s Authority in the Digital Age: Flicks and Media Discourses, and User Perspectives explores the digital portraits of Pope Francis in various types of media content and productions. It investigates how digital Catholic users articulate and negotiate papal authority and through which media they do so.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guzek, Damian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Organisation & Institutionen von Kirchen und Gemeinden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures and Tables

Introduction: Discussing Approaches to the Study of Papal Authority

1. The Discarded Image: The Pope on HBO and Netflix

- 1.1. Films on the Modern Papacy

- 1.2. Evolving Archetypes of the Papacy

- 1.3. Two Ways for the Future Church

- 1.4. Discarded Image: In Search of Papal Metaphors of Being

2. Portraying Francis on the Web

- 2.1. Choose Your YouTube Narrative: The Pope as a Threat or Hope?

- 2.2. Polarized Approaches to Websites

3. Traditional Catholic Users: Consuming Mediated Papacy, Protecting the Old Rules and Doctrines

- 3.1. Defining Traditional Catholic Users

- 3.2. Three Types of Traditional Catholic Users

- 3.3. Identity Marks: Objective Truth, Catholic Orthodoxy and the Latin Mass

- 3.4. Strategies for Negotiating Francis’ Leadership

4. Post-Vatican II Catholic Users: Media Consumption, Supporting the Modern Papacy

- 4.1. Defining Post-Vatican II Catholic Users

- 4.2. Three Types of Post-Vatican II Catholic Users

- 4.3. Hallmarks of Christian Life: Decentralization of Orthodoxy and Contextualization of Catholicism

- 4.4. Approaches to Francis’ Ministry

Conclusion: Rethinking the Pope’s Authority Through the Activities of Traditional and Liberal Catholic Users

Methodological Appendix

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Damian Guzek, Ph.D. DS.c. (1985) is an associate professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice. He has published monographs and many articles on digital media, religion and politics, including Mediatizing Secular State (Peter Lang, 2019).