Spiritual Nontroversies:

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" Spiritual Nontroversies: "
Henrik Reintoft Christensen

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1082552
Doc. No	:	LA126181
Call No	:	‭10.1163/21659214-00801004‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Henrik Reintoft Christensen
Title & Author	:	Spiritual Nontroversies: [Article] : Framing Conflicts and Controversies of Religion and Spirituality in Danish News Media\ Henrik Reintoft Christensen
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture
Date	:	2019
Volume/ Issue Number	:	8/1
Page No	:	55–75
Abstract	:	This article analyzes two Danish news stories in order to discuss the reasons that spirituality seems to be less newsworthy than religion. Drawing on Anderson’s concept of imagined communities, and Luhmann’s account of the mass media in a modern functionally differentiated society, I argue that spirituality seldom registers as controversial in the news stories. It lacks the scale necessary to be selected as newsworthy. Additionally, it is not a natural source of systemic irritation for many subsystems, probably only for the systems of religion and science. The two cases involves media controversies on news production on mindfulness in the health system and on the use of animal telepathy in the majority church. This article analyzes two Danish news stories in order to discuss the reasons that spirituality seems to be less newsworthy than religion. Drawing on Anderson’s concept of imagined communities, and Luhmann’s account of the mass media in a modern functionally differentiated society, I argue that spirituality seldom registers as controversial in the news stories. It lacks the scale necessary to be selected as newsworthy. Additionally, it is not a natural source of systemic irritation for many subsystems, probably only for the systems of religion and science. The two cases involves media controversies on news production on mindfulness in the health system and on the use of animal telepathy in the majority church.
Descriptor	:	clairvoyance
Descriptor	:	controversy
Descriptor	:	mindfulness
Descriptor	:	religion and advertisement
Descriptor	:	religion and news
Descriptor	:	religion and spirituality
Descriptor	:	religious
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/21659214-00801004‬