Describe the variety of specifically religious programmes on the four main television channels.
Aradhana Gohil Coursework Three Describe the variety of specifically religious programmes on the four main television channels. In this essay I will strive to investigate how Christianity and Christian issues are portrayed on the four main television channels. There are many Christian issues and programmes on television, nevertheless in this essay I will only discuss Ballykissangel, The Vicar of Dibley, Songs Of Praise and Son of God Ballykissangel Ballykissangel is a drama with a religious issue weaved into the main theme. The storyline is as follows. Father Clifford, an English catholic priest comes to a small Irish village and falls in love with local girl, Asumpta Fitzgerald who runs the local pub. The relationship between them has been the main focus of the programme for two series, with a main storyline of "will they or won't they get together". Eventhough this is the case there are many twists and turns in the tale. Asumpta has always been against the Catholic Church and all it stands for. She is unwillingly attracted to Father Clifford, but fights her feelings, she goes as far as to go to England and marry an Irish man from her youth. The story ends when Father Clifford and Asumpta declare their love for each other. Tragically on the night of this declaration, Asumpta dies in a horrific accident and Father Clifford can
Religion and the Media - review of the film "East is East".
East is east (C) Choose an issue from religion & community cohesion presented in one form of the media and explain whether the presentation was fair to the religious people or not. The Background "George" Khan is a Pakistani Muslim who has lived in England since 1937 and has been married to Ella, a British Roman Catholic of Irish descent, for 25 years. They have 7 children together: Nazir, Abdul, Tariq, Saleem, Maneer, Meenah, and Sajid, and run a popular english fish and chips shop. The film starts with oldest son Nazir facing an arranged marriage to a Pakistani girl but finding himself unable to go through with it. He runs out at the start of the ceremony in front of all the family and guests, to his mother's distress and his father's chagrin, the latter spurring George on to disown his eldest son, forever telling anyone who asks about him that he is dead. The next family crisis is the discovery that youngest son Sajid somehow never got circumcised as is preferred in Islam (which, comically, sends the Muslim children in the mosque into a panic). Sajid is promptly taken to the hospital to get circumcised. When Ella sees the pain her son has suffered due to the circumcision, the conflict between her love of her husband and her inability to stand up to him is readily visible. Left alone, the other children (barring Maneer) eat Haram foods, bacon and sausages, until Meenah
'Modern Britain is now a Secular Society.' To what extent do Sociological arguments and evidence agree with this statement?
"Modern Britain is now a Secular Society." To what extent do Sociological arguments and evidence agree with this statement? Secularisation has become more of an issue among Sociologists recently than it has been in the past, it is the argument of whether or not Religion is losing it's importance in today's Society. Bryan Wilson defined Secularisation as being "The process whereby religious thinking, practices and institutions lose social significance." This definition itself and not just the topic alone causes problems, it might be argued that it is not possible to measure the significance of such a personal thing as religion and if it is possible it may not even be true that Religion held such a significance in the first place. It may not be true that Modern Britain is a Secular Society or perhaps it is and it always has been. These are just some of the problems that arise with the discussion of Secularisation. Functionalist Durkheim did not agree that religion was 'doomed' to total obsolescence. He once commented that there was 'something eternal in religion' (Durkheim, 1961). Nevertheless, he did anticipate that religion would be of declining social significance. In an industrial society in which there was a highly specialised division of labour, religion would lose some of its importance as a force for integrating society. Social solidarity would increasingly be
'Television always presents religious people as out of touch with the modern world'
'Television always presents religious people as out of touch with the modern world' I think that this statement could be seen as both true and false. Some television presenters and directors do present religious leaders as stereotypes; meaning that they appear out of touch and old-fashioned. I do, however, appreciate that the directors sometimes have to make a character appear out of touch for them to fulfil their part. The modern world is the world we live in today. Religion is not as much of an issue as it once was, about forty years ago. Television often mocks the seriousness of religious people, and they are portrayed as old-fashioned, and incapable of understanding the things that happen in the news and such moral issues as terrorism. One example of a religious programme which presents religious people as out of touch is The Vicar of Dibley, which is a comedy attracting many viewers. It features a female vicar called Geraldine and the people in her parish. The jokes are mainly on the villagers themselves, because they could be seen as out of touch. It seems that Geraldine is the only sane one in the series. Another similar programme that also presents religious people as out of touch is Father Ted. Religious people are also featured in scandalous storylines, featuring them as criminals who break the law. This of course adds to the drama of the performance. One
Religion and the media.
Religion and the media Mark Minogue 11A A. Describe the variety of specifically religious programmes on terrestrial T.V. There are many different types of religious programmes, and seeing that there is so much choice over the five terrestrial channels, the importance of religious television has started to drop. An example of a religious programme is a magazine show. The typical features of a magazine show are a presenter, comments on a variety of different issues relating to religion and faith, interviews with celebrities as well as personal stories from ordinary people. An example of a magazine show is "The Heaven and Earth Show", normally shown around mid-day on a Sunday on channel BBC 2. The audience of this programme I thought would be of an old age, and would be people who are very religious, whereas after watching the show, I saw that there was no specific target audience, as the audience was people of all ages. The show concentrates on four main things, reviews, interviews, news and a viewer phone session. B. Analyse and explain the way in which a religious or moral issue has been dealt within a TV soap opera. For this I have decided to explain a religious and moral issue that has been dealt with in the soap opera, "EastEnders". In "EastEnders", Dot and Ethel are best friends and have been for many years now. After along time they discover that Ethel has a brain
Religion And The Media
Religion And The Media INTRODUCTION There are many different ways in which religion and religious issues are dealt with on television. Some issues are dealt with on educational programmes or documentaries with great respect and interest. Other issues can be treated as comedy and humour. Song Of Praise Songs of Praise is a national institution in Britain, with a weekly audience of 5 million. It is one of the most popular and longest running programs on the BBC. It prides itself on being a musical celebration of life and faith in the UK today, and provides something for everyone, from those of vague faith to regular worshippers. Each week Songs of Praise travels to a different town or county in Britain, with occasional visits overseas, presenting a colourful programme of hymns and music, local events and touching stories of belief. It features interviews with British celebrities as well as drawing on the experiences of local people. Songs of Praise broadcasts all over Europe and America and has attracted a loyal following in Australia over the years. The program has been hosted by a diverse array of British performers and presenters including, Sir Harry Secombe, David Bellamy, Jimmy Savile, and or course Pam Rhodes who is one of the best loved, longest serving hosts. The programme is shown at prime time television 11 am, Sundays BBC 1. Heaven And Earth There is
Religion and the Media
Describe, Analyse and Explain the Variety of Specifically Religious Programmes on the Four Main Channels When religious programming first began it was aimed, almost exclusively, at a strictly Christian audience. However, over the years this has changed in that more programmes are being aimed at the vaguely religious, non-religious as well as religious people of all faiths. This means that the programmes appeal to a wider audience including religious people from all religions who cannot attend church for whatever reason, people who are undecided about whether or not there is a God and the non-religious. In the future broadcasters aim to devote more airtime to programmes for the ethnic minorities. However, this could cause problems for the BBC who need to attract 20 percent of a viewing audience at any given time because ethnic minorities only form 5 percent of the British population. Making the programmes interesting for non-religious people as well could solve this. BBC religion wants to help people to understand where we have come from, why we are here and how we should live. They want to explore how different people understand this to help others find answers. Channel 4's aim for religious broadcasts is to give them more peak time slots and one-off programmes whilst making them less religious and instead focusing more on personal beliefs which affect people everyday. The
Religion and the Media
Meera Shah 10BF RELIGION AND MEDIA There are four types of Religious programs: * Documentary Programmes > This type of programmes usually deal with one topic based on fact EXAMPLE: "The long search" * Worship Programmes > In this type of programmes people take part in a religious ceremony. EXAMPLE: " Songs of praise" * Magazine Programmes > This type of programmes deal with the lots of various sections. EXAMPLE: "Heaven and earth" Generally the audience of the religious program are the people who believe in religion. But still there are some programmes in which the target audience are the people who believe in vaguely religion. Some of the program doesn't deals with only religion but with also some deep discussion which includes stories in it. Some of the religious programs come in the morning and some in the evening and on Sundays as the People, who have day off on Sundays and are free in evenings can watch the religious programs. Documentary program: The present generation always believe on the matter that have true facts. So if we want them to believe in religion than we should provide them with facts. The religious program that are under the category of the documentary program deals with the topic based on facts. We'll take the e.g. of "Moses". Moses is presented by Jeremy Bowen-Presenter /journalist. It comes on BBC1 at 8pm on Sunday.
Religion and the media.
A1 In the world we live in today people have revolutionized the image of religion, so that it is now regarded as a pastime instead of it solely being about God. In today's world media has evolved to be much more powerful than religion, and therefore some say that media is taken more seriously. After observation of the TV channels broadcasting specific religious programmes, I saw that all terrestrial TV channels had at least one hour a week of religious programmes. The government issues the license enabling TV companies to broadcast, and has a significant role in deciding on what has to be shown. In each TV channels broadcasting charter it is stated that they must "provide an average of at least two hours a week of religious programmes." This means that if a TV channel does not show this minimum amount their license could be evoked. It is very obvious why the government is concerned about religion in the UK since only 48 per cent of UK residents claim to belong to a religion, compared to 89 per cent in the United States and 92 per cent in Italy. Also two-thirds of 18-24 year olds in the UK, say that they have no religious affiliation compared to just a quarter in Spain. Nearly all religious programmes are aired at non-prime time slots, with the exception only being Songs of Praise on Sundays from 17.45-18.15. This suggests that the TV companies see broadcasting religious
Religion and the media
Religion and the media The media is a form of communication to large audiences; Mass media. The biggest form of media is TV, but there countless different types of media: * Radio * Film and video * Print (newspapers, magazines, direct mail, etc.) * Photography * Electronic (E-mail, the Web, etc.) The media is quite new in some aspects but is already a crucial and important role in people's lives. It communicates things all over world to people, and it reproduces modern society's self-image. But some people say that the media destroys the individual's capacity to act for themselves. Media often perpetuates stereotypes which can be either good or bad, but most of the time very patronising. The media is becoming increasingly important to peoples lives everyday, to buying a paper every morning to see the worlds news to downloading music as soon as it comes out. Often people say that media takes over adolescents lives, e.g. they want to be what they see on the TV which isn't always good. There is always a dark side to anything that is involved in the media. There are very little religious programs on TV regularly but the BBC has quite a few for example: * Songs of praise - Christian - Songs of Praise is a weekly celebration of Christian heritage and experience featuring the very best inspirational music and stories. * Heaven and earth - Heaven & Earth with Gloria