"As the most widespread and popular form of communication in the country, radio occupies an essential space in the deliberation and the construction of public opinion in South Africa. From just a few state-controlled stations during the apartheid era, there are now more than 100 radio stations, reac
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hing vast swathes of the population and providing an important space for citizens to air their views and take part in significant socio-economic and political issues of the country. The various contributors to this book demonstrate that whilst print and television media often serve elite interests and audiences, the low cost and flexibility of radio has helped it to create a ‘common’ space for national dialogue and deliberation. The book also investigates the ways in which digital technologies have enhanced the consumption of radio and produced a sense of imagined community for citizens, including those in marginalised communities and rural areas." (Publisher description)
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"The study calls for the formal recognition of faith-based media in Senegal and Niger. It also suggests to the different stakeholders such as the Government, regulatory bodies and the civil society, women's rights organizations, to take a series of measures and actions to strengthen the regulation o
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f religious discourse, for more social harmony but especially for a more gendered media environment." (Publisher description)
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"En général, l’étude plaide la reconnaissance formelle des médias confessionnels au Sénégal et au Niger. Elle suggère également aux différents acteurs que sont l’Etat et les organes de régulation et à la société civile notamment aux organisations de défense des droits des femmes, l
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’adoption de certaines mesures et actions pour renforcer la régulation du discours religieux, pour plus de cohésion sociale mais surtout pour un environnement médiatique plus genré." (http://panosmedia.org)
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"This article analyses religious Morning Services, delivered by eight Muslim speakers, broadcast on Swedish public service radio during 2013 and 2014. Morning Services have been broadcast on Swedish radio since 1930, but only in recent years have non-Christian speakers been invited to contribute. In
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viting religious minority speakers is understood as a strategy for incorporating selected representatives of religious minorities into hegemonic practices and discourses. The analysis identifies four shared discourses produced in the material and relates these discourses to hegemonic views regarding legitimate public expressions of religiosity in Sweden. The discourses are: 1) a positive discourse on religious pluralism, 2) a discourse that emphasises practical self-help-like effects of Muslim religious practice, 3) a discourse that articulates religiosity as challenging purported negative aspects of current society, 4) a discourse that raises difficulties which Muslims in Sweden face. The Muslim Morning Services illustrate a complex dialectic, as, on the one hand, they endorse hegemonic values and ideals and thereby contribute to and legitimise the status quo, while, on the other hand, their individual voices, personal narratives, and religious messages signify change through their use of public space which was previously unavailable to Muslims." (Abstract)
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"Die Islamkonferenz hat kritisch nach dem Beitrag der Medien für die Integration von Muslimen gefragt. 2007 machten der SWR mit der Radio-Sendung „Islamisches Wort“ und das ZDF mit der TV-Sendung „Forum am Freitag“ einen Anfang. Der NDR folgte später mit dem „Freitagsforum“ und der „
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Deutschlandfunk“ mit „Koran erklärt“. Die Diskussion über Islam im Rundfunk konzentriert sich auf zwei Bereiche: auf die Einführung weiterer islamischer Sendungen, analog zu christlichen und jüdischen Sendungen, und auf Gremiensitze für muslimische Vertreter in den Rundfunk- und Fernsehräten. Der Artikel beleuchtet den Status quo islamischer Sendungen und Gremienvertreter. Deutlich wird: Nicht rechtliche Hürden sind oft Integrationshindernisse, sondern mangelnder politischer Wille." (Zusammenfassung)
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"New Media and Religious Transformations in Africa casts a critical look at Africa's rapidly evolving religious media scene. Following political liberalization, media deregulation, and the proliferation of new media technologies, many African religious leaders and activists have appropriated such me
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dia to strengthen and expand their communities and gain public recognition. Media have also been used to marginalize and restrict the activities of other groups, which has sometimes led to tension, conflict, and even violence. Showing how media are rarely neutral vehicles of expression, the contributors to this multidisciplinary volume analyze the mutual imbrications of media and religion during times of rapid technological and social change in various places throughout Africa." (Publisher description)
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"Cet ouvrage analyse l’environnement des radios confessionnelles et leurs stratégies de communication dans un contexte médiatique, religieux et social marqué par le libéralisme et de profondes mutations. Il nous fait découvrir l’extraordinaire expansion des médias radiophoniques en Afrique
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subsaharienne depuis le début des années 1990. L’étude porte essentiellement sur quatre pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest, mais examine aussi des exemples bien connus en Afrique centrale et en Afrique de l’Est. On verra que tout en faisant une large part au message religieux, les radios mettent volontiers l’accent sur les problèmes sociaux: développement, condition féminine, démocratie et État de droit, questions de santé – la maladie et sa guérison. Les radios confessionnelles africaines mènent donc de front le prosélytisme et l’engagement social au nom de la logique d’une mission à double sens: ad intra et ad extra, sans oublier le « divertissement ». (Description de la maison d'édition)
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"Overall, the evaluators found that the project’s approach was quite relevant in promoting religious freedom and preventing religious radicalization. The project targeted pesantrens affiliated to the traditional Islam Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), and at the same time, it empowered the mainstream moderate
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Islam that has been seen as ‘silent majority’. Subsequently, it provided a countermeasure against the ‘vocal minority’ extremists in the country. In this regard, a similar attempt could have been done among the modernist Islam Muhammadiyah educational institutions, which have older roots in Indonesian society. Radio programs have been attractively designed, especially for the young audience, and encouraged them to be agents of change among the Muslim community. The progressive Islamic study programs clearly provided theological basis for religious freedom and against religious violence. Meanwhile, the video documentary provided the students a reality check, a chance to deal with the real world’s cultural and religious diversity. Both activities were sufficient and complemented each other, in rising their critical awareness on the issues of tolerance and radicalization. The pesantren based radio broadcasting service has been seen as a spiritual oasis by its surrounding community, and facilitated them to digest the moderate Islamic knowledge. Otherwise, they would fulfill their spiritual hunger with another kind of religiousity which is radical and extremist in nature. However, not all of the radio stations pay equal attention to both targets: the young students and the community members. Due to some considerations, some pesantrens prefer to focus on serving the external beneficiaries (community), while ignoring the internal ones (young students). Some pesantrens
unexpectedly did the contrary. In this case, regular monitoring is necessary to ensure and remind stakeholders to meet their actual objectives." (Executive summary)
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"This chapter examines how community radio in post-apartheid South Africa is playing an important role in the cultural citizenship of ethnic minorities. Using the case study of Radio Islam, a community radio station located in Johannesburg in South Africa, it explores how the radio station provides
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spaces for the celebration of the culture and identity of the Muslim minorities in the country. Although Radio Islam considers itself to be a community of interest station, it is actually based on a hybrid model that mixes the geographic and community of interest organizational norms." (Introduction, page 303)
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"[...] Vor diesem Hintergrund sei nun der heutige rechtliche Sachstand bei den religiösen Sendungen anhand einiger Gesetzesbeispiele etwas genauer beschrieben (unter 2). Daraus werden sich auch bereits erste Aufschlüsse über künftige allgemeine Entwicklungs- und Reformmöglichkeiten ergeben. Ein
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entsprechender innovativer Ansatz wird dann kurz umrissen, mit ein paar Seitenblicken auf Islamunterricht in der deutschen öffentlichen Schule als interessante Vergleichsmaterie (unter 3). Nachfolgend geht es um ausgewählte Fragen der Nutzanwendung auf die islamische Religion und deren Präsenz im deutschen Rundfunkwesen, und zwar auch über die Drittsendungen hinaus (unter 4), beginnend vielleicht mit einem redaktionell betreuten „Wort zum Freitag“ (unter 5)." (Einleitung, Seite 8)
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