Islamophobia beyond Explicit Hate Speech: Analyzing the Coverage of Muslims in Slovenia's Public Broadcasting

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11320%2F25%3A3BKGRFTB" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11320/25:3BKGRFTB - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel15060697" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel15060697</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel15060697" target="_blank" >10.3390/rel15060697</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Islamophobia beyond Explicit Hate Speech: Analyzing the Coverage of Muslims in Slovenia's Public Broadcasting

Original language description

Religion in Europe has been undergoing two fundamental changes in the past four decades. As a side effect of secularization, religious fields have been pluralizing. On the other hand, religions themselves have taken a qualitative shift towards lived, material characteristics. Focusing exclusively on the diversification of European religious fields, we are interested in the concept of religious literacy as a tool for competent engagement in contemporary religious plural societies. To better understand the role of public media in fostering religious literacy, we offer an analysis of the public broadcaster's coverage of smaller religious communities in Slovenia. Focusing particularly on Muslims as the largest religious minority in Slovenia, we provide an analysis of 245 episodes, consisting of 540 items, in the 2015-2020 period. We show that the coverage given to smaller religious communities is unevenly spread amongst the communities, with disproportional airtime given to Christian churches and communities. Furthermore, we pinpoint the key qualitative difference in portrayals of Slovenian Muslims and non-Catholic Christians, explaining how the process of racialized Islamophobia may continue beyond explicit hate speech. In conclusion we set out limitations of our study and provide guidelines for future research.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

RELIGIONS

ISSN

2077-1444

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Volume of the periodical

15

Issue of the periodical within the volume

6

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

1-23

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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