AGAMA SEBAGAI MEDIA DAN MEDIA SEBAGAI AGAMA

Abstrak

Religion can be a medium of integration as well as a medium that can lead to disintegration in the midst of society. Therefore, in this paper will examine how religious formulations should be understood as a framework of values, so the most important thing is to implement the values ​​contained in religion itself, rather than being a narrative text or rigid formal symbols. And finally the religious presence is able to help human beings in good moral and psychological formation. On the other hand also, the presence of media in modern society, especially television and internet that so affect the actions of modern humans. This phenomenon makes the media a "new religion" of modern society. This research is done by descriptive analysis approach, to describe the phenomenon of religious entity and media, with the observation variable to specially determined things. The collected data is then analyzed and interpreted using descriptive-qualitative analysis technique.