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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|61 pages
Theoretical reflections
chapter 2|14 pages
Reporting refugees
part 2|89 pages
Power and authority
chapter 8|13 pages
From good press to fake news
part 3|93 pages
Conflict, radicalization and populism
chapter 12|17 pages
Reporting the divided soul of the nation
chapter 15|18 pages
Shukura
chapter 16|13 pages
Journalism and the rise of Hindu extremism
part 4|89 pages
Dialogue and peacebuilding
chapter 18|16 pages
Ethics, religion and journalism in the USA
chapter 19|17 pages
19Peace- versus conflict-journalism in Poland
chapter 21|12 pages
Reporting religions with Chinese characteristics
part 5|75 pages
Trends