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« If, indeed, the media and religion are coming together,
then perhaps it is because they are fundamental cultural
mediations of the need felt by the people to transform
them into magic, into mystery and into the seduction of
the world. We would find, then, that something very
curious has happened. Despite all the promise of
modernity to make religion disappear, what has really
happened is that religion has modernized itself. Religion
has shown itself capable of eating modernity alive and
making modernity an important ingredient for its own
purposes. What we are witnessing, then, is not the
conflict of religion and modernity, but the
transformation of modernity into enchantment by linking
new communication technologies to the logic of popular
religiosity. »