Believing and Belonging: The Aesthetics of Media Representations of Islam and Muslims in Britain and Its Relationship to British Civil Religion

Increasingly, debates are dealing with the integration and the compatibility of Islam with British values and society. Media narratives are used to conceptualise Islam in Britain. The existing protocols of religion, media, and public space characterise that environment, as well as dictating the part...

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Auteur principal: de Rooij, Laurens (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Brill 2017
Dans: Journal of religion in Europe
Année: 2017, Volume: 10, Numéro: 1/2, Pages: 172-217
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Großbritannien / Religion civile / Islam / Médias / Musulman / Identité culturelle
RelBib Classification:AD Sociologie des religions
KBF Îles britanniques
ZC Politique en général
Sujets non-standardisés:B Civil Religion aesthetics of religion content analysis media discourse Islam Muslims
Accès en ligne: Volltext (Verlag)
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Résumé:Increasingly, debates are dealing with the integration and the compatibility of Islam with British values and society. Media narratives are used to conceptualise Islam in Britain. The existing protocols of religion, media, and public space characterise that environment, as well as dictating the participation of members in that space. This paper discusses how media constructions of Islam are linked to civil religion. It does so by discussing: (1) how the media’s protocols of public discourse affect the framing of religious identities; (2) how the media defines the aesthetic parameters of religious expression; (3) how the conceptualisation(s) of civil religion are used to regulate Islam in Britain. This study utilises a qualitative content analysis of media frames. Findings suggest that the aesthetic elements (media representations of Islam and Muslims) regulate Islam and Muslims through the codes and conventions (civil religion) of British society.
ISSN:1874-8929
Contient:In: Journal of religion in Europe
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/18748929-01002007