The screens of the sacred or the religious imaginary of television
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Television. Imaginary. Media religiosity. Resacralization.Abstract
This article aims to present the hypothesis that the success of television comes from its effectiveness in taking the place of the religious, consolidating itself as a point of re-encounter with the sacred, but without a god, anthropocentered: a selfmanifestation. This hypothesis is investigated through philosophical ethodology. It is concluded that, instead of mobilizing communion, characteristic of the integration of religious phenomena, television promotes isolation, resembling
a truncated religion, a synthesis of all sacred experiences. This finding contradicts the supposed desacralization provided by the technique, engendering a paradoxical and simultaneous resacralization. The images on the screen revive the hierophany
of the god, from situations of evil possession, from selftransformations towards self-divination.
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