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"This book examines the incorporation of newly accessible mass media into practices of religious mediation in a variety of settings including the Pentecostal Church and Islamic movements, as well as the use of religious forms and image in the sphere of radio and cinema." (Publisher description)

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Fernsehprediger, Online-Counselling und Fatwa-Hotlines: Zur Medialisierung des Islam

Carola Richter

In: Religion und Massenmedien

Maud E. Sieprath (ed.)

Berlin: Weißensee-Verlag (2009), pp. 99-128

"Der Mainstream-Islam, der sich heute im arabischen Fernsehen und Internet präsentiert, hat [...] eine besondere Charakteristik: er hat eine moralische Botschaft, ist aber nicht vordergründig politisch und wird damit geduldet von den autoritären Regimes, die in populär-religiösen Formaten zumei ... more

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Von Chatraum bis Cyberjihad: Muslimische Internetnutzung in lokaler und globaler Perspektive

Matthias Brückner, Johanna Pink (eds.)

Würzburg: Ergon (2009), xiii, 215 pp.

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Indonesia: Jemaah Islamiyah's Publishing Industry

Jakarta; Bruxelles: International Crisis Group (2008), 22 pp.

"A handful of members and persons close to Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), Indonesia’s most prominent extremist organisation, have developed a profitable publishing consortium in and around the pesantren (religious school) founded by Abu Bakar Ba’asyir and Abdullah Sungkar in Solo, Central Java. The cons ... more

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Unholy Speech and Holy Laws: Blasphemy Laws in Pakistan—Controversial Origins, Design Defects, and Free Speech Implications

Osama Siddique, Zahra Hayat

Minnesota Journal of International Law, volume 17, issue 2 (2008), pp. 303-385

"This article, inter alia, attempts to analyze and focus on the historical, formalistic, and design aspects of Pakistan’s existing blasphemy laws from a comparative perspective. It argues that, quite apart from procedural inadequacies of the Pakistani legal system and its special socio-political c ... more

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The Islamic Internet: Authority, Authenticity and Reform

Musa Maguire

In: Media on the Move: Global Flow and Contra-Flow

Daya Kishan Thussu (ed.)

Abingdon; New York: Routledge (2007), pp. 237-250

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Islam im Rundfunk - wie eigentlich? Auf dem Weg zu muslimischer kommunikativer Präsenz in deutschen Rundfunkprogrammen

Martin Stock

Köln: Institut für Rundfunkökonomie an der Universität zu Köln (2007), 40 pp.

"[...] 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 ... more

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Evoking Moral Community, Fragmenting Muslim Discourse: Sermon Audio-Recordings and the Reconfiguration of Public Debate in Mali

Dorothea E. Schulz

Journal for Islamic Studies, volume 27 (2007), pp. 39-72

"The article explores the processes that have allowed Islam to gain great appeal as a community-building idiom in Mali since the introduction of multiparty democracy in 1991. Drawing on the mediatic performances of the charismatic preacher Sharif Haidara, the article analyzes how new media technolog ... more

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The Moral Resonance of Arab Media: Audiocassette Poetry and Culture in Yemen

Flagg Miller

Harvard: Harvard University Press (2007), xxiv, 525 pp.

"Investigating a vibrant audio-recording industry in southern Yemen, The Moral Resonance of Arab Media shows how new forms of political activism emerge through sensory engagements with Arabic poetry and song. From the 1940s onward, a new cadre of political activists has used audio-recording technolo ... more

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Islam auf Sendung: Islamische Fernsehsendungen im offenen Kanal

Anke Bentzin, Jeanine Elif Dagyeli, Ayfer Durdu, Kira Kosnick, Riem Spielhaus

Berlin: Dagyeli (2007), 238 pp.

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Religiöser Wandel und Krisenerfahrung: Tendenzen der islamischen Buchproduktion in Indonesien seit 1945

Arndt Graf

Asien , issue 104 (2007), pp. 153-165

"Wer sich heute auf eine Reise in die malaiische Welt (Indonesien, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam) begibt, wird beobachten, dass sich das Angebot in den Buchhandlungen von Land zu Land zum Teil erheblich unterscheidet. In Indonesien etwa, das mit seinen zur Zeit etwa 230 Millionen Einwohnern fast 90% d ... more

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Promises of (im)mediate Salvation: Islam, Broadcast Media, and the Remaking of Religious Experience in Mali

Dorothea E. Schulz

American Ethnologist, volume 33, issue 2 (2006), pp. 210-229

"In this article, I take the highly successful Muslim preacher Cherif Haidara in Mali as a starting point to explore the conditions that, throughout the contemporary Muslim world, facilitate the rise to prominence of new types of religious leaders, who, by virtue of their media performances and in t ... more

Islam and the Media

Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 3, issue 2 (2006), 125 pp.

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Exotische Typen: Buchdruck im Orient - Orient im Buchdruck

Meliné Pehlivanian, Siegfried Schmitt et al.

Berlin: Staatsbibliothek (2006), 215 pp.

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Reflections in a Bloodshoot Lens: America, Islam and the War of Ideas

Lawrence Pintak

London: Pluto Press (2006), xviii, 374 pp.

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The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics

Charles Hirschkind

New York: Columbia University Press (2006), xiii, 270 pp.

"An essential aspect of what is now called the Islamic Revival, the cassette sermon has become omnipresent in most Middle Eastern cities, punctuating the daily routines of many men and women. Hirschkind shows how sermon tapes have provided one of the means by which Islamic ethical traditions have be ... more

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Muslims and the News Media

Elizabeth Poole, John E. Richardson (eds.)

London: Tauris (2006), xv, 257 pp.

"Written by both leading academic authorities and by Muslim media practitioners, 'Muslims and the Media' is designed as a comprehensive and critical textbook and is set in both the British and international contexts. The book clearly establishes the links between context, content, production and aud ... more

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British Muslims: Media Guide

Ehsan Masood

British Council (2006), 73 pp.

"This publication gives an account of Britons who feel themselves to be the target of antagonism. A joint enterprise of the British Council and a number of Muslim organisations, the book is written in the belief that much hostility and negativity is founded in, and fostered by, misunderstanding. It ... more