Banal Religion and National Identity in Hybrid Media: "Heating" the Debate on Values and Veiling in Sweden
Religion has become a hot topic in Sweden, often perceived as the most secularized corner of the world. This article analyzes how Islam and Lutheran Christianity come to be used in the construction of national identity, through discourse analysis of an opinion piece by the Christian Democrats in 202...
| Άλλοι τίτλοι: | "Special issue: Studying Populism, Religion and Media - a Nordic Perspective" |
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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Universitetsforlaget
2023
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Nordic journal of religion and society
Έτος: 2023, Τόμος: 36, Τεύχος: 2, Σελίδες: 95-108 |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
Sweden
B Christian Democrats B Veil B Banal religion B hybrid media |
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| Σύνοψη: | Religion has become a hot topic in Sweden, often perceived as the most secularized corner of the world. This article analyzes how Islam and Lutheran Christianity come to be used in the construction of national identity, through discourse analysis of an opinion piece by the Christian Democrats in 2021 on banning veils in elementary schools, and the following discussion on Twitter1. The concept "banal religion" from mediatization of religion theory is used to analyze when implicit understandings of religion and national identity become "heated" into a polarization between Islam and Swedish values. This represents a novel use of the concept that can contribute to previous research on religion and national identity by revealing how this dynamic is played out in hybrid media, where the logics of conventional news media become mixed with those of social media. |
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| ISSN: | 1890-7008 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Nordic journal of religion and society
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.18261/njrs.36.2.4 |