Mediatyzacja treści religijnych w kulturze internetowej i popularnej

The subject of reflection in this text, from the perspective of cultural studies and religion studies, is the process of mediatizing religious content. Religion, in various forms, is now being transferred to the internet. However, mediatization should not be understood only as a technical transfer of the Church’s institutional activities to the network. Mediatization also means a change of religion in other fields, as well as the transformation of the message, and sometimes religious axiology. For religious institutions, this process is a challenge and can arouse defensive attitudes, because popular culture itself appears as something that leads to simplification and reduction of meanings. It is different from the perspective of supporters of secular culture and culture based on the same category of spirituality (unnecessarily connected with religiosity). Then, many areas of internet and popular culture appear as a field of many new creative phenomen