Konstruksi Wacana Keagamaan di Media Cetak: Status Epistemologis, Metodologis, dan Sosio-Kontekstual-Referensial

Hebert Obregón Expósito (Red de Investigadores Científicos de América Latina y el Caribe)
Eraida Zoraida Campos Maura (Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas (UCLV) – Facultad de Humanidades, Departamento de Periodismo)

Palakka : Media and Islamic Coummunication
Vol. 7 No. 1 (2026): Media and Islamic Communication (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, United Kingd

This theoretical-conceptual article critically addresses the discursive construction of religious events, aiming to establish the conceptual factors for the construction of specialized journalistic discourse on religious events as a factual expression of the religiosity phenomenon. Unlike empirical approaches, this study undertakes a systematic bibliographic-documentary review and a discursive-functional analysis of the foundational literature. The research deconstructs the epistemological, methodological, and socio-contextual-referential statutes that underlie this type of specialized press discourse. The synthesis procedure results in a terminological and conceptual definition of categories with wide theoretical dispersion, the articulation of a specific multi-level analytical methodology, and a revision of the socio-contextual-referential apparatus within context models. The main contribution is an integrated pent dimensional analytical framework that overcomes linear models by incorporating factual and contextual dimensions specific to the religious event, thus establishing a new theoretical standard for the analysis of specialized journalistic discourse on religion, exportable to ideologically mediated contexts.