Table Of ContentTHE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK
OF RELIGION AND JOURNALISM
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; jour-
nalistic 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.
Kerstin Radde-Antweiler is professor of Religious Studies at the University of Bremen,
Germany.
Xenia Zeiler is associate professor of South Asian Studies at the University of Helsinki,
Finland.
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Edited by Kerstin Radde-Antweiler and Xenia Zeiler
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CONTENTS
List of figures ix
List of tables x
List of contributors xi
Introduction 1
1 Religion and journalism: a global view 3
Xenia Zeiler and Kerstin Radde-Antweiler
PART 1
Theoretical reflections 15
2 Reporting refugees: the theory and practice of developing
journalistic religious literacy 17
Jolyon Mitchell and Sara Afshari
3 Religion and journalism under secularization 31
Henrik Reintoft Christensen
4 The role and function of journalism for religious organizations 46
Tim Hutchings
5 Gender, religion and the press in Scandinavia 62
Mia Lövheim
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PART 2
Power and authority 77
6 Race, religion and the news: the Reagan administration and the
fairness issue 79
Diane Winston
7 The negotiation of religious authorities in European journalism 95
Teemu Taira
8 From good press to fake news: who’s got the word? Religion,
authority and journalism in Brazil 109
Karina Kosicki Bellotti
9 Asian mass media: a pillar of religious authority? 122
Yoel Cohen
10 Religion and journalism in Ghanaian news media 136
J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
11 Religion, gender and news media in Africa 151
Katrien Pype
PART 3
Conflict, radicalization and populism 167
12 Reporting the divided soul of the nation: religion and politics in
American news media 169
D. Ashley Campbell
13 Media visibility of religion and conflict in the digital age 186
Tanja Maier
14 Gender, religion and new medias in Latin America 199
Kelber Pereira Gonçalves
15 Shukura: gratitude, faith and the unlikely relationship between
gender, religion and journalism in Brazil 214
Priscila Vieira-Souza and Andréia Coutinho Louback
16 Journalism and the rise of Hindu extremism: reporting religion
in a post-truth era 232
Pradip Thomas
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17 Radical others and ethical selves: religion in African journalism 245
Jennifer Hasty
PART 4
Dialogue and peacebuilding 261
18 Ethics, religion and journalism in the USA: their roles within
political dialogue and the peacemaking process 263
Doug Underwood
19 Peace- versus conflict-journalism in Poland: representation of
Islam, Muslims and refugees by progressive and right-wing
Polish media 279
Anna Piela
20 Journalism, religious intolerance and violence in Brazil 296
Magali do Nascimento Cunha
21 Reporting religions with Chinese characteristics: sinicizing religious
faith, securitizing news media 311
Wai-Yip Ho
22 Religious peacebuilding in Zimbabwe: the role of the
printing press 323
Joram Tarusarira and Admire Mare
23 (De-)differentiation and religion in digital news 337
Johanna M. Sumiala
PART 5
Trends 351
24 Differentiation: when more sometimes means less 353
Joyce Smith
25 Globalization as a trend for journalism: researchers’ perspectives 366
Liane Rothenberger and Cornelius B. Pratt
26 Religion and journalism in a globalized world: a journalist’s
perspective 382
Paul Chaffee
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27 Religious datafication: platforms, practices and power 397
Pauline Hope Cheong
28 Datafication as a trend for journalism: a journalist’s perspective 411
Andreas Mattsson
Index 427
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FIGURES
15.1 Illustration of intersectionality (Crenshaw 2002) 220
15.2 Caribbean and Latin America journalists by sex (GMMP 2015b, 2015c) 222
15.3 Brazilian journalists (Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC);
National Federation of Journalists (FENAJ), 2012) 223
15.4 Brazilian journalists by race (Federal University of Santa Catarina
(UFSC); National Federation of Journalists (FENAJ), 2012) 223
15.5 Journalists X population by religious groups (The Trust Project 2017;
Demographic Census Atlas (IBGE), 2010) 224
25.1 Phase model illustrating (periodical) apogees and paradigm affiliations of
globalization theories 371
28.1 Screenshot from the TED talk with Hans Rosling entitled “Religion and
Babies” (2012) 416
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