Pub Date : 2023-07-26DOI: 10.1163/21659214-bja10089
Jacquelene G. Brinton
A recent New York Times op-ed about “Instavangelists” claims these women are replacing traditional religion with their own gospel through Instagram and other online platforms. Christian celebrity pastors also gain success on social media by mimicking the success those media necessitate. Because of these trends the term religion is now networked with elements that make its meaning unstable. Instability comes through experiences that direct understanding in relation to a variety of human activities, which in turn gives religion its meaning. As part of this shift, the social media networking of religion with other elements online in word and image further dilutes the barrier between secular and religious. Whether on affiliated or unaffiliated social media sites, teaching women how to be their best selves is now classified under the shifting category religion, even though both the media and the message further blur the lines between religion and the secular.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-26DOI: 10.1163/21659214-bja10083
Michael B. Munnik
Journalists in secular contexts report – accurately and fairly, we hope – on religious communities and events. Quantitative studies of media content and discourse have suggested a rise in reporting on religion in general and, since 9/11, Islam in particular, with misrepresentations and negative representations. I draw on findings from a new study evaluating journalistic style guides on their representation of Muslims and Islam. A researcher and I reviewed academic literature on style guides, surveyed news organisations across the UK for the tools they use, and assessed those tools. In this paper, I consider the representations that emerge in ten different resources, ranging from in-house style guides to documents prepared by charities and even that most basic of resources – the dictionary. I consider their ease of use, their currency, and the quality of their contents. I am also attentive to the political context: for example, The Guardian has a richer, fuller, and more explanatory set of entries related to the tradition and its adherents than The Daily Telegraph, and this matches assessments of how these news organisations treat Muslims and Islam. From this, I comment on the adequacy of these style guides for such an important news topic in the 21st Century and problematise the utility of style guides in general as a resource for uncertain journalists.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-26DOI: 10.1163/21659214-bja10088
Margaret J. Hamm, Kate Hoeting
This paper examines the media practices of young Christians as expressed in the TikTok trend “#ChristianCheck,” a challenge in which TikTokers create videos displaying objects that represent their faith. Through #ChristianCheck, Christian TikTokers emphasize the tangibility of their faith at a time when United States media expresses anxiety over the “dilution” of Christianity in a new generation of non-religious teens to whom the tangible components of religion do not seem to matter. Ultimately, in the face of notions that Christianity is “dead” or “uncool,” Generation Z TikTokers pose their own understandings of Christianity through reiterative processes oriented around race- and gender-based values.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-26DOI: 10.1163/21659214-bja10091
Christy Miller
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Pub Date : 2023-07-26DOI: 10.1163/21659214-bja10099
Johanna Sumiala
In this presidential address to the International Society for Media, Religion and Culture (ismrc) I argue for the relevance of studying digital religion as a public phenomenon in one particular context: within the structures of hybrid media. While hybrid as a concept has achieved, in recent years, considerable interest in media and communication studies, it has also been addressed in the study of digital religion. Here, I wish to provide a structure-oriented approach to such hybrid media and argue how this approach could provide a valuable contribution to the study of digital religion in the future.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-26DOI: 10.1163/21659214-bja10090
J. Bilby
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Pub Date : 2023-07-26DOI: 10.1163/21659214-bja10087
Ilaria Biano
The paper will focus on the different ways in which being secular or nonreligious is represented in contemporary US television seriality. The paper will examine three cases, showing how they manage to depict different ways of being religious and nonreligious and how these differences are represented and mediated. Conceptually the focus will be on nonreligiosity as a relational concept, while the more general frame is the role of television and specifically seriality in representing, reflecting, and promoting (or not) different forms of religion, nonreligion, and secularity.
{"title":"“To Me, Religion is like Paul Rudd”. Popularising Secularities and Nonreligion in Contemporary US Seriality","authors":"Ilaria Biano","doi":"10.1163/21659214-bja10087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21659214-bja10087","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The paper will focus on the different ways in which being secular or nonreligious is represented in contemporary US television seriality. The paper will examine three cases, showing how they manage to depict different ways of being religious and nonreligious and how these differences are represented and mediated. Conceptually the focus will be on nonreligiosity as a relational concept, while the more general frame is the role of television and specifically seriality in representing, reflecting, and promoting (or not) different forms of religion, nonreligion, and secularity.","PeriodicalId":29881,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religion Media and Digital Culture","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74779515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-26DOI: 10.1163/21659214-bja10098
Jasbeer Musthafa Mamalipurath
Much of the scholarly discussions on the nexus between secular worldview and discourse on Islam have depicted a rather homogeneous image of ‘postsecular Islam’ by overlooking the heterogeneity and changing nature of communications on Islam. In most cases, the postsecular rhetoric of minority sects in Islam, such as Shia Islam, is rarely mentioned. This study aims to offer a more empirical and context-oriented understanding of the emerging postsecular turn in the contemporary narratives of Shia Islam due to its encounter with secular ideologies, digital media, and popular culture. To do so, it examines dominant discursive features of a transnational Shia religious network – ‘Who is Hussain’. The analysis focuses on exploring new interpretations and representations of Shi’i messages online. Four main types of narrative features were found: a postsecular contextualization of Shi’i religious events, a secular call for action infused with Shi’i moral motivations, promoting postsecular humanitarian responses, and translating Shi’i religiosity into citizenry engagement. The language deployed by the Facebook page of this network to translate religious ideas denotes a high degree of malleability. This open hermeneutic margin, this study finds, allows the knowledge producers to develop a postsecular narrative of Shi’ism that has the potential to travel beyond the confines of religious boundaries by animating new debates internationally.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-31DOI: 10.1163/21659214-bja10062
Tuvia Gering, Yoel Cohen
Despite growing recognition of the important role which culture and religion play in risk communication and framing theory, research on framing in religious media is limited. In the context of health risks, framing remains virtually unexplored. In an attempt to address this gap, this study looks at risk reporting in religious media. By means of a content analysis of 331 news reports and articles published in the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish religious media in Israel during the covid-19 outbreak in Israel, this study serves the dual purpose of offering the empirical evaluation of the “quality of risk information” as well as the framing of health-risks in religious media. Drawing upon the constructivist approach to framing theory, the study’s findings shed light on the mediation of frames through cultural-religious prisms and its effects on the quality of risk information. In addition, the findings provide a conceptual basis for comparative analysis across various cultural and religious groups.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-31DOI: 10.1163/21659214-bja10080
Rehab Mohmed Patel
{"title":"Lynn S. Neal, Religion in Vogue: Christianity and Fashion in America","authors":"Rehab Mohmed Patel","doi":"10.1163/21659214-bja10080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21659214-bja10080","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":29881,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Religion Media and Digital Culture","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90873310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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