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Secrets, silence and the sacred: the communications Trinity of the Catholic Church
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dc.contributor.authorDufour, Stéphanede
dc.date.accessioned2014-04-14T14:16:02Z
dc.date.available2014-04-14T14:16:02Z
dc.date.issued2013de
dc.identifier.issn1775-352Xde
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/38218
dc.description.abstractIf the Catholic Church experiences difficulties in today’s world of ‘hyper-communication’ and 24/7 media pressure, esoteric religious language or generalised misuse of the media may not be the only factors to blame. This paper is based on the hypothesis that the reasons run more deeply into the communications ethos of the Catholic Church itself. More precisely, the paper contends that the Church’s communication in the social sphere cannot totally escape the principle of secrecy. This is not to say that there is one particular secret which the Church wishes to keep, rather that the whole Catholic tradition is marked by a culture and practice of secrecy, as shown through such examples as the Seven Seals of The Apocalypse, the Holy Secret of Confession, the Three Secrets of Fatima, meetings held systematically behind closed doors, etc. This contribution will analyse this communicational ethos based on the value of secrecy and on its corollary: mystery, through acts of enunciation involving texts, actors’ strategies, semiotically-charged scenes and everything which helps set the “stage” for a typical instance of religious communication. This cult of secrecy, as far as it can be identified, enters inevitably into conflict with the value of transparency. The dialectical relationship between secrecy and transparency leads us to focus our analysis on the tension between the Church’s desire to respect secrecy, to retain information and to remain silent, and the demands of visibility immediacy and openness we associate with information-based society.en
dc.languagefrde
dc.subject.ddcSociology & anthropologyen
dc.subject.ddcSoziologie, Anthropologiede
dc.titleSecret, silence, sacré: la trinité communicationnelle de l'Eglise catholiquede
dc.title.alternativeSecrets, silence and the sacred: the communications Trinity of the Catholic Churchde
dc.description.reviewbegutachtet (peer reviewed)de
dc.description.reviewpeer revieweden
dc.source.journalESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies
dc.source.volume6de
dc.publisher.countryFRA
dc.source.issue2de
dc.subject.classozKommunikationssoziologie, Sprachsoziologie, Soziolinguistikde
dc.subject.classozSociology of Communication, Sociology of Language, Sociolinguisticsen
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-382181
dc.rights.licenceCreative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercialen
dc.rights.licenceCreative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht-kommerz.de
internal.statusformal und inhaltlich fertig erschlossende
dc.type.stockarticlede
dc.type.documentjournal articleen
dc.type.documentZeitschriftenartikelde
dc.source.pageinfo139-150de
internal.identifier.classoz10217
internal.identifier.journal556
internal.identifier.document32
internal.identifier.ddc301
dc.source.issuetopicSecret, Publicity, and Social Sciences Researchde
dc.description.pubstatusPublished Versionen
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dc.subject.classhort10400de
dc.subject.classhort10800de
dc.subject.classhort10216de
dc.subject.classhort30100de
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