Interreligious dialogue groups and the mass media
Interreligious dialogues have received attention since they were introduced as a security policy and social pacification measure after the attack on 9/11. This essay examines the development of interreligious dialogue in Germany as well as the influence of media discourses on interreligious dialogue...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
[2020]
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| In: |
Religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 50, Issue: 3, Pages: 336-352 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Germany
/ Interfaith dialogue
/ Islam
/ Mass media
/ Security policy
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AX Inter-religious relations BJ Islam CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations |
| Further subjects: | B
Islam
B Mass Media B Christianity B Interreligious Dialogue |
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| Summary: | Interreligious dialogues have received attention since they were introduced as a security policy and social pacification measure after the attack on 9/11. This essay examines the development of interreligious dialogue in Germany as well as the influence of media discourses on interreligious dialogue and asks to what extent they affect the motives, goals and modes of communication of both Muslim and non-Muslim participants. This analysis leads to the thesis that the mass media’s frequent security-policy framing of Islam within issues of integration, violence, and threat has developed interreligious dialogue groups as a space of face-to-face coping processes with the imagined religious conflict. Muslims attend it in order to put Islam in a different and positive frame. For the Christian participants this also presents the opportunity to reach a new relevance of religion in the public secular space. |
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| ISSN: | 1096-1151 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/0048721X.2020.1754604 |