Identity Politics in a Mediatized Religious Environment on Facebook: Yes to Wearing the Cross Whenever and Wherever I Choose
The Norwegian Facebook page Yes to Wearing the Cross Whenever and Wherever I Choose was initially created to protest the prohibition of the cross for nrk news anchors. Yet, many of the discussions and audience interactions transpired into heated religio-political debates with strong elements of anti...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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Journal of religion in Europe
Year: 2017, Volume: 10, Issue: 4, Pages: 457-486 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Norway
/ Social media
/ Christianity
/ Cross
/ Religion
/ Debate
/ Cultural identity
/ Islamophobia
/ Xenophobia
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion CB Christian life; spirituality CG Christianity and Politics KBE Northern Europe; Scandinavia |
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media and religion
media anthropology
mediatized conflict
Islamophobia
Facebook debates
politics
social media
Christianity
xenophobia
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | The Norwegian Facebook page Yes to Wearing the Cross Whenever and Wherever I Choose was initially created to protest the prohibition of the cross for nrk news anchors. Yet, many of the discussions and audience interactions transpired into heated religio-political debates with strong elements of anti-Muslim, xenophobic, anti-secular, and anti-atheist sentiments. This study aims to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the interplay between media and religion by providing new insights on the variety of ways in which media audiences may ‘add a series of dynamics to conflicts, namely, amplification, framing and performative agency, and co-structuring’ and ‘perform conflict’, as formulated by Hjarvard et al. It is argued that mediatized conflicts with inherent trigger themes, which tug at core religio-political identity issues, also tend to evoke emotional responses, which, in turn, inspire social media users to perform the conflict in ways that multiply the conflict(s). |
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| ISSN: | 1874-8929 |
| Contains: | In: Journal of religion in Europe
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18748929-01004001 |