Polyakova A. Religion in mass-political magazines (based on materials of weekly magazines "Korespondent", "Ukrainskij tuzden" "Focus", "Glavred")

Dissertation is devoted to religious themes in political magazines for a wide audience. Historical and theoretical foundations of the study of religious communication and its characteristics in political media were analyzed. Also the approaches were reconstructed to its definition. The characteristic of this information, examines the factors related to the formation of the subject in the Ukrainian society, scientifically proved structure and properties of the communication medium, the tendencies of filing this information in the weekly magazines Ukraine, lexical analysis of publications carried out, signs of "hate speech", identified signs of "hate speech", which is used in the press. The system structuring and content analysis of these magazines was carried out, the percentage of religious subjects, and its role, place, character, genre and thematic palette were determined. The impact of religious information on the readership was examined. Practical guidance on the principles of religious publications in the mass media in Ukraine was offered.