This paper assumes a paradoxical stance with regards to religion and the place of religion in modern society. While some scholars from Charles Taylor in his secular age to Pope Benedict XVI suggest the growing secularization of the pillars of society, others from Derrida to Meyer argue for the resurgence of religion. This paper while taking a middle stand argues rather for a change in the modality of experience of religion in modern society. As such, the new onus of argumentation is not about the decrease or increase of the belief culture but the changing ground of its experience and remediation by the new and prevailing media. The paper postulates that in the ambience of an ever-increasing visual culture, religion’s representations assume the language of the visual culture therefore creating a fecund ground for the promotion of the very spectacular aspects of religious practices and silencing through minimal reportage of aspects of religion that do not flow with the visual logic. In the same line of thought, the paper postulates and predicts that representations of religion within the ambience of evolving visual culture in the ambit of the predominance of visual media may follow the logic, language and profit of show-business globally.
