Mediatization, polarization, and intolerance (between environments, media, and circulation)

141 La médiatisation du mouvement des « gilets jaunes » : religion et politique 1 Stefan Bratosin 2 Mihaela Alexandra Tudor 3 Abstract : The paper discusses dimensions of an answer to the following question: How and why is the mediatization of the “Yellow Vest” movement associated with political and religious references in the French public space, which has always been re- fractory to an amalgam between religion and politics (Bratosin & Jauffret, 2018)? In order to answer this question, the hypoth- esis tested here is that mythic-religious thinking ontologically reconnects religion and politics as a foundation of the public space (Tudor et al., 2018) and at the same time it is a thinking that affirms and defends its lay and secular character. From this perspective, the analysis will cover a corpus of media products publicly available between October 2018 and April 2019. The presentation of the results is organized in four parts: (a) “Yellow Vests”: political and religious foundations; (b) “Yellow Vests”: publicization of religion; (c) “Yellow Vests”: spiritualization of politics; (d) “Yellow Vests”: mediatization of the movement. Keywords : Mediatization. Yellow Vests. Publicization of reli- gion. Spiritualization of politics. Mediatization of the movement. 1 “La première version de cette étude est disponible dans l’ouvrage “La médi- atisation. Nouveaux défis pour les sciences et la société” (Paris: l’Harmattan, 2021)”. 2 Professeur des universités, IARSIC-CORHIS EA 7400, Université Paul Valéry de Montpellier 3, France. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4592-8964. E-mail: sbratosin.univ.montp3@gmail.com 3 Mihaela Alexandra TUDOR. Maître de conférences habilitée diriger des recher- ches, IARSIC-CORHIS EA 7400, Université Paul Valéry de Montpellier 3, France. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1458-8952. E-mail: mihaela.tudor.com@ gmail.com