Fighting Religious Extremism with Faith-Based Entertainment-Education: The Portrayal of isis in Arab Drama
isis’s media projected the group’s vision of an Islamic utopia upon declaring its so-called Caliphate in 2014. In response, many counter-messaging campaigns have emerged. Although many examine isis’s media and anti-extremism interventions, very few assess faith-based initiatives in Arab countries. I...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2022
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| In: |
Journal of religion, media and digital culture
Year: 2022, Volume: 11, Issue: 2, Pages: 171-197 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Islamischer Staat im Irak und in Syrien
/ Counter movement (Sociology)
/ Depiction
/ Television (motif)
/ Religious drama
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AG Religious life; material religion AH Religious education BJ Islam KBL Near East and North Africa NBA Dogmatics NCB Personal ethics ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies |
| Further subjects: | B
Islam
B counter violent extremism B Isis B Arab drama B conversion narratives B entertainment-education |
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| Summary: | isis’s media projected the group’s vision of an Islamic utopia upon declaring its so-called Caliphate in 2014. In response, many counter-messaging campaigns have emerged. Although many examine isis’s media and anti-extremism interventions, very few assess faith-based initiatives in Arab countries. Integrating two bodies of scholarly literature on religious and political conversions and entertainment-education, this study explores al-Siham al-Marika, a faith-based Arab drama portraying life under isis. The study uses mixed-methods to analyze the show’s religious underpinnings, the depiction of positive/negative role models, and the portrayals of religious-political conversions. Focusing on spiritual outcomes, the show illustrates cross-cultural differences in conceptualizing rewards and punishments and uses drama to bolster the persuasive power of religious-political conversion narratives. The study concludes with a discussion on the implications of faith-based entertainment-education in combating extremism and its potential role as a catalyst for bridging the perceived schism between religion and popular culture in some Muslim societies. |
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| ISSN: | 2165-9214 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion, media and digital culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/21659214-bja10070 |
