Media, Religion and Politics
The module will examine the cultural and political relationships and intersections between media, religion and politics in national and global contexts. Both old and new media will be considered, and consideration will be given to the transformative potential of the latter for participation and activism in religion and politics. The research methods used for analysing media content and discourse will be introduced and applied.
Topics may include:
- Religion and politics: media, mediation and mediatisation
- Media, Islam, Islamophobia
- Global religious and political issues through the media
- Political and religious ritual and media rituals
- Changing media portrayals of religion in Britain
- Media analysis (introduction to content, discourse, and visual analyses)
- Politics, political engagement and the media in Britain
- Religious and political broadcasting
- New media and religious and political activism
- Secularism and atheism in the media