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A ground-breaking theoretical engagement with intersecting areas of
religion, media, and culture. Provides probing case studies which
explore contemporary cultural and media phenomena. An outstanding
reference source for students and scholars interested in how
religious identities are developing against evolving digital and
cultural landscapes.
This volume considers the mediation of religion in the context of
global relations of power, culture, and communication. It takes a
nuanced, historical view of emergent religions and their mediation
in various forms. The wide range of chapters provides valuable
insight into particular contexts while also offering connections to
other cases and contexts. Together, they form a snapshot of
religious evolution in the media age.
In the constant deluge of media coverage on Islam, Muslims are
often portrayed as terrorists, refugees, radicals, or victims,
depictions that erode human responses of concern, connection, or
even a willingness to learn about Muslims. On Islam helps break
this cycle with information and strategies to understand and report
the modern Muslim experience. Journalists, activists, bloggers, and
scholars offer insights into how Muslims are represented in the
media today and offer tips for those covering Islam in the future.
Interviews provide personal and often moving firsthand accounts of
people confronting the challenges of modern life while maintaining
their Muslim faith, and brief overviews provide a crash course on
Muslim beliefs and practices. A concise and frank discussion of the
Muslim experience, On Islam provides facts and perspective at a
time when truth in journalism is more vital than ever.
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On Islam - Muslims and the Media (Hardcover)
Hilary E. Kahn, Rosemary Pennington; Contributions by Arsalan Iftikhar, Peter Gottschalk, Zarqa Nawaz, …
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In the constant deluge of media coverage on Islam, Muslims are
often portrayed as terrorists, refugees, radicals, or victims,
depictions that erode human responses of concern, connection, or
even a willingness to learn about Muslims. On Islam helps break
this cycle with information and strategies to understand and report
the modern Muslim experience. Journalists, activists, bloggers, and
scholars offer insights into how Muslims are represented in the
media today and offer tips for those covering Islam in the future.
Interviews provide personal and often moving firsthand accounts of
people confronting the challenges of modern life while maintaining
their Muslim faith, and brief overviews provide a crash course on
Muslim beliefs and practices. A concise and frank discussion of the
Muslim experience, On Islam provides facts and perspective at a
time when truth in journalism is more vital than ever.
The events of 9/11 have cast a shadow of suspicion on Muslims in
Western Europe and fostered a public discourse of arbitrary
associations with violence and resistance to social and cultural
integration. The antagonistic ascendancy of militant Islam globally
and the anxiety this has engendered are animating day-to-day
debates on the place and loyalty of Muslims in Western societies.
Exploring the neglected reality of ethnic radio in Paris and
Berlin, Voicing Diasporas: Ethnic Radio in Paris and Berlin Between
Cultural Renewal and Retention examines how Muslim minorities of
North African descent in France and Germany resist these glaring
generalizations and challenge bounded narratives and laws of
cultural citizenship in both countries. Through an analysis of Beur
FM in Paris and Radio Multikulti in Berlin, this book also
questions the reductionist view of diasporic media as expressions
of longing, nostalgia, and cultural dislocation. This
ground-breaking study is as essential read for not only scholars
and higher educational students in various fields, but for those
interested in this ever-changing, topical issue.
This book documents and analyzes how the contemporary Mediterranean
city manages and negotiates its identity as a result of recent
reconfigurations in its cultural, religious, and social landscape.
The events of Sept. 11, 2001 have recast difference as a central
trope of identification in urban borderland settings, unleashing
heated debates about cultural convergences and animating anxieties
about an arguable clash of civilizations in modern cities. These
emerging uncertainties have also grown stronger as the homogenizing
forces of globalization unsettle essential principles of the
nation-state and nationhood and render fixed perceptions of
distinctive and singular people and cultures more tenuous. Recent
scholarship and public discourse have accordingly framed
discussions of these encounters around concerns of geo-political
security and international policy. Unfortunately, framed within
these terms, our understanding of how various groups within the
Mediterranean metropolis deal with the intensification of
difference as a lived experience has remained regrettably thin.
This volume transcends this limitation and explores new,
interdisciplinary research paradigms that will help us gain a
comprehensive perspective on how complex macro and micro tensions,
contradictions and similarities are negotiated in building urban
identities in the Mediterranean basin. The contributors to this
volume explore the multi-faceted nature of Mediterranean cities and
engage a critical discussion of identity production and consumption
in the Mediterranean basin. By spanning two centuries and examining
both the Northern and Southern shores of the Mediterranean, the
chapters in this book provide a broad and comprehensive
investigation of the ways in which recent cultural productions have
framed and re-imagined the Mediterranean city as a locus of
departures, arrivals and contested belonging. By focusing on
cinema, photography, new media, magazines, music and literature as
different stages for the performative representation of
Mediterraneity, the authors highlight the vibrancy of the
intercultural discourses taking place along the shores of the mare
nostrum and provide new perspectives from which to explore the
relationship between North and South, East and West.
Bloggers around the world produce material for local, national and
international audiences, yet they are developing in ways that are
distinct from the U.S. model. Through case studies of blogs written
in English, Chinese, Arab, French, Russian, and Hebrew, this book
explores the way blogging is being conceptualized in different
cultural contexts. The authors move beyond the most highly
trafficked sites to shed light on larger developments taking place
online, calling into question assumptions that form the foundation
of much of what we read on blogging and, by extension, on global
amateur or do-it-yourself media. This book suggests a more nuanced
approach to understanding how blogospheres serve communication
needs, how they exist in relation to one another, where they exist
apart as well as where they overlap, and how they interact with
other forms of communication in the larger media landscape.
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