Cover -- Copyright information -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1 State secularity in context -- 1.1 Shaping the Church-state relationship according to models -- 1.2 Understanding the secular state -- 1.3 Differentiating la ï cit é , neutrality, and impartiality -- 1.4 The secular state's ways of accommodating conscientious exemptions -- 1.5 The secular state on the fusion of national and religious identity -- 1.6 Understanding civil religion -- 1.7 The place of public religion -- 1.8 Lasting Polish religiosity in context -- 2 The notion of mediatization -- 2.1 Traditions of mediatization research -- 2.2 Defining mediatization -- 2.3 Mediatization epistemology: The grand theory or the theory of middle range? -- 2.4 Understanding media institutions -- 2.5 Differentiating media -- 2.6 Understanding media logic -- 2.7 Components of media logic -- 2.8 Forms and objects of mediatization -- 2.9 Operationalizing mediatization research -- 2.10 Mediatization affects the media effect -- 3 Mediatization of religion and politics -- 3.1 Designating mediatization of religion -- 3.2 Understanding mediatization of religion -- 3.3 Three forms of mediatized religion -- 3.4 Spheres of mediatized religion -- 3.5 Mediatization in the context of secularization -- 3.6 Mediatization in the context of republicization -- 3.7 Conditions and consequences of the mediatization of religion -- 3.8 Conceptualizing the mediatization of politics -- 3.9 Media logic versus political logic -- 3.10 Results of the mediatization of politics -- Part II -- 4 Methodological background -- 4.1 Introduction to the research design -- 4.2 Materials -- 4.3 First stage: Media content analysis -- 4.4 Second stage: The grounded theory -- 4.5 Third stage: Survey questionnaires -- 4.6 Triangulation of the methods.

5 Covering the secular and Church-state relationship -- 5.1 The secular state and the Church-state relationship: A quantitative overview -- 5.2 Placing the secular state and secularity in the quantitative material -- 5.3 Who is important: Political actors -- 5.4 Who is important: Religious actors -- 5.5 Locating the agency: Believers, non-believers, and covered confessions -- 5.6 Religion becoming public -- 6 On the way to the secular state -- 6.1 The secular state and Church-state relationship: A qualitative overview -- 6.2 The incoherent debate over the secular state -- 6.3 Political agents get mediatized -- 6.4 Religious agents get mediatized -- 6.5 Covering the fusion of religion and state -- 7 In search of the mediatization effect -- 7.1 Sources of knowledge about a secular state -- 7.2 Not very attractive Church-state issues -- 7.3 "Where's the cross?" -- 7.4 Between secularity and state impartiality -- 7.5 Reconsidering the mediatization effect -- Conclusion: Church-state issues seen through the prism of the mediatization theory -- Poland's way of creating an endorsed Church -- Shaping the concepts -- Religious issues get mediatized -- Political issues get mediatized -- Insight into the mediation of the secular state -- Appendix -- List of Figures -- References -- Index.