%0 Journal Article %T Popular Culture, Politics and Religion: Prime-Time or Selfie Religiosity %A Ekmel Ge£żer %J - %D 2018 %X This study, mostly in Turkish context, handling the religious scenes in mass communication and political sphere within the framework of two meaningful popular culture terms (prime-time and selfie), in theoretical terms and through unstructured observations, aims to analyse (a) the socio-political reasons of increasing religiosity on television screens, (b) the ethics of religious coverage as a popular culture or rating entry, (c) the behavioural dimension of religious symbol or discourse that are much-applied in the public sphere and (d) the forms of devotedness in mobile technologies which can be called as social media religiosity. The preliminary outcomes and the analysis of the article suggest that religious symbols and discourse have been used as a show-business in political arena and media courses (new and traditional) and that religion has changed into a consumption item belonged to popular culture %K Siyaset %K medya %K din %K pop¨ıler k¨ılt¨ır %K selfie %U http://dergipark.org.tr/insanveinsan/issue/36858/398459