ABSTRACT

The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Journalism is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, challenges, past and present global issues and debates in this exciting subject. The first collection of its kind, this volume comprises over 25 chapters by a team of international contributors. This Handbook is divided into five parts, each taking global developments in the field into account:

  • Theoretical Reflections
  • Power and Authority
  • Conflict, Radicalization and Populism
  • Dialogue and Peacebuilding
  • Trends

Within these sections, central issues, debates and developments are examined, including religious and secular press; ethics; globalization; gender; datafication; differentiation; journalistic religious literacy; race and religious extremism.

This volume is essential reading for students and researchers in journalism and religious studies. This Handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as sociology, communication studies, media studies and area studies.

chapter |1 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|11 pages

Religion and journalism

A global view

part 1|61 pages

Theoretical reflections

chapter 2|14 pages

Reporting refugees

The theory and practice of developing journalistic religious literacy

part 2|89 pages

Power and authority

chapter 6|16 pages

Race, religion and the news

The Reagan administration and the fairness issue

chapter 8|13 pages

From good press to fake news

Who’s got the word? Religion, authority and journalism in Brazil

chapter 9|14 pages

Asian mass media

A pillar of religious authority?

part 3|93 pages

Conflict, radicalization and populism

chapter 12|17 pages

Reporting the divided soul of the nation

Religion and politics in American news media

chapter 15|18 pages

Shukura

Gratitude, faith and the unlikely relationship between gender, religion and journalism in Brazil

chapter 16|13 pages

Journalism and the rise of Hindu extremism

Reporting religion in a post-truth era

chapter 17|15 pages

Radical others and ethical selves

Religion in African journalism

part 4|89 pages

Dialogue and peacebuilding

chapter 18|16 pages

Ethics, religion and journalism in the USA

Their roles within political dialogue and the peacemaking process

chapter 19|17 pages

19Peace- versus conflict-journalism in Poland

Representation of Islam, Muslims and refugees by progressive and right-wing Polish media

chapter 21|12 pages

Reporting religions with Chinese characteristics

Sinicizing religious faith, securitizing news media

chapter 22|14 pages

Religious peacebuilding in Zimbabwe

The role of the printing press

part 5|75 pages

Trends

chapter 24|13 pages

Differentiation

When more sometimes means less

chapter 25|16 pages

Globalization as a trend for journalism

Researchers’ perspectives 1

chapter 26|15 pages

Religion and journalism in a globalized world

A journalist’s perspective

chapter 27|14 pages

Religious datafication

Platforms, practices and power

chapter 28|15 pages

Datafication as a trend for journalism

A journalist’s perspective