ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how mediation may have influenced the space occupied by religion in society. Mediated religions rely on the worshipper's religiously oriented engagement in public affairs. Mediation seems to represent an element of common ground in the relationship between religion and politics since it deals with the way some matters reach the public space. This kind of investigation is framed in one of the main debates in the sociology of religion, the discussion about the secularization. It would be easier, perhaps, to understand secularization by relating it to the question of the presence/absence of religion in the public space and its visibility/invisibility in the media. Religion came back in the discussion about public sphere, democracy and pluralism in the early twenty-first century. The disagreement among religions or denominations would be confined to theological speculation if it does not interfere on other aspects of individual and community life.
