Criticizing Religion in Mediatized Debates

Jensdotter, Linnea; Lövheim, Mia

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“…By "ordinary standards of reasonableness", Oppy means to say that there are religious believers who are no less reasonable in their religious beliefs than is the majority of humanity in the rest of its beliefs. 6 See Jensdotter and Lövheim (2020) for an interesting analysis of the relevance of mediatization on the public debate about religion.…”

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Religion and Its Public Critics

Stenmark

2022

Religions

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To have the right and possibility to criticize religions in public life is crucial for developing a healthy liberal democratic society. However, this criticism could take many different forms with respect to who offers the criticism, on what grounds it is based, its aim, what the target of the criticism is, and whom the critics try to convince. In this article, I develop a theoretical framework we can use to distinguish and assess different forms of criticism, focusing primarily on secular criticism of religion. Furthermore, I argue that in performing such a meta-study of criticism, it is vital that we reflect more carefully on how to develop plausible ethics of criticism. Finally, by comparing public criticism and academic criticism, I show that such ethics must be developed in a way that is sensitive to discourse.

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Stenmark

2022

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Veiling as free choice or coercion: Banal religion, gender equality, and Swedish identity on Instagram

Lövheim,

Jensdotter

2024

Nordic Journal of Media Studies

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In this article, we analyse implicit connections between gender equality and particular forms of religion in Sweden, as expressed in political discourse and social media debates. Instagram posts responding to the Christian Democrats [Kristdemokraterna] political party's proposal to ban the wearing of veils in Swedish primary schools in 2021 were analysed through methods of co-occurrence analysis and feminist critical discourse analysis. By applying the concept of banal religion from mediatisation of religion theory, the results reveal how implicit connections between veiling as opposed to gender equality in the proposal turn into explicit debates on Instagram regarding what kind of religious practice is compatible with Swedish identity and values. This reveals the ambiguous nature of Instagram as a digital platform that may enhance hegemonic ideas of gender, ethnic, and religious identities, but that may also enable Muslim women to challenge understandings of Islam and gender equality in the public debate.

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Criticizing Religion in Mediatized Debates

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Religion and Its Public Critics

Veiling as free choice or coercion: Banal religion, gender equality, and Swedish identity on Instagram

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