Hostname: page-component-84b7d79bbc-c654p Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-30T14:52:10.414Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

How Church and Mosque Influence the Media of Albania

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Artan Fuga*
Affiliation:
University of Tirana – Associate of LADYSS/CNRS/Paris X Nanterre

Abstract

The author undertakes the job of analysing the real situation of the media in Albania from the viewpoint of the complex relations being set up between the spheres of religion and communications in the post-communist period. In the course of his argument he shows how religion is adopting a form in which events and stories of a communications order are being confused. These basic dimensions are assuming a particularly noteworthy aspect because Albanian society has the specific features of a multi-faith environment where Muslim, Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, etc. practices and rites can be found. The author also stresses the respect for norms and values of a secular model that precisely distinguishes the various spaces for discourse and intervention by actors. He notes how recent democratization has managed to facilitate a renaissance of religious usage, even though some priests may express a harsh view of the forms of expression of modernity. Churches and mosques are elaborating their own particular narratives of Albanian history, creating in this way the features of an interpretative multi-stranded story.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © ICPHS 2006

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Del Valle, Alexandre (2000) Guerres contre l'Europe. Paris: Éditions des Syrtes.Google Scholar
Fuga, Artan (1997) La presse et la politique en Albanie. Pendant le régime communiste et la phase de la transition (1944–1997), thesis defended at the Université de Paris II Assas.Google Scholar
Fuga, Artan (2003) Les mots dans la communication politique en Albanie. Paris: l'Harmattan.Google Scholar
Fuga, Artan and Dervishi, Zyhdi (2002) Ndjërmjet fshatit dhe qyteterimit global [Between the home village and global civilization]. Tirana: Shtëpia Botuese Jeruzalem.Google Scholar
Volkoff, Vladimir (1999) Désinformation flagrant délit. Paris: Éditions du Rocher.Google Scholar