Introduction: Setting the Stage

Sakaranaho, Tuula; Aarrevaara, Timo; Konttori, Johanna

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-47576-5_1

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“…There are several factors for my choice of the two contexts. Finland is a country where most Muslims are of migrant background and constitute a religious minority, where Islam and Muslims are either othered in public discourses or overdetermined (Sakaranaho, Aarrevaara and Konttori 2020). Egypt, on the other hand, is a Muslimmajority con text but also a migratory context hosting many Muslim and nonMuslim refugees, many of whom are of African background.…”

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Engaging with the Qur’an

Al-Sharmani

2024

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In this article, I examine what selected Muslim women in Finland and Egypt do with the Qur’an in their daily lives. I shed light on their modes of engagement with the Qur’an (spiritual, emotional, intellectual, communal). I analyse how their relationship with the Qur’an is shaped and changes over the course of their life. I pay attention to the interplay between the women’s daily lives and the ways in which they experience, learn from, grapple with, and interpret the text. My overall aim is twofold: to contribute to research-based understanding of the Qur’an as daily religious practice that in many ways involves learning both about God and about the complex circumstances of personal life, and to unpack the layered and shifting meanings of this practice in the context of the women’s lives. My analysis is informed by life-story interviews with six women in Helsinki and Cairo (three in each country).

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Engaging with the Qur’an

Al-Sharmani

2024

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“…Thus, contemporary religious diversity necessitates a significant societal transformation, requiring states to adapt their approach to upholding a secular system while also ensuring the implementation of mechanisms that facilitate peaceful coexistence among different religious plausibility structures and practices. Multiple studies have shown that one such mechanism is the fostering of potent religious literacy (Dinham and Francis 2015a;Littau 2015;Sakaranaho 2020;Mason 2021;Walker et al 2021), a concept central to our analytical undertaking. Religiously literate individuals-whatever their (non)religious background may be-make for competent citizens of religiously diverse societies.…”

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

Jurekovič

2024

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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.

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Ο θρησκευτικός γραμματισμός και η θρησκευτικότητα των αποφοίτων (2020) της ελληνικής εκπαίδευσης / Religious literacy and religiosity of the Greek school education graduates (2020)

Κουκουνάρας Λιάγκης,

Σεκαδάκης

2022

Ελληνική Περιοδική Έκδοση Για Τη Θρησκευτική Εκπαίδευση (ΕλΘΕ)/Greek Journal of Religious Education (GjRE)

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Η παρούσα μελέτη διερευνά τον θρησκευτικό γραμματισμό και τη θρησκευτικότητα των νέων που αποφοίτησαν το 2020 από τη Γ΄ Λυκείου της ελληνικής Εκπαίδευσης και έχουν διδαχθεί δέκα χρόνια υποχρεωτικά το μάθημα των Θρησκευτικών. Σκοπός της είναι να περιγράψει το επίπεδο του θρησκευτικού γραμματισμού και της θρησκευτικότητάς τους. Η έρευνα πραγματοποιήθηκε από 12-10-2020 μέχρι 20-02-2021 σε 996 απόφοιτους δευτεροβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης μέσω ηλεκτρονικών ερωτηματολογίων. Τα συμπεράσματα που εξάγονται είναι πως οι νέοι στην Ελλάδα κατέχουν μέτρια ποσοστά θρησκευτικών γνώσεων και θρησκευτικότητας. Η συμβολή της έρευνας έγκειται στο ότι παρέχει μία εικόνα για το επίπεδο θρησκευτικού γραμματισμού και θρησκευτικότητας της σύγχρονης γενιάς στην Ελλάδα, η οποία θα έπρεπε να λαμβάνεται υπόψη στον σχεδιασμό του Προγράμματος Σπουδών της Θρησκευτικής Εκπαίδευσης.

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Introduction: Setting the Stage

Cited by 4 publications

References 8 publications

Engaging with the Qur’an

Engaging with the Qur’an

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

Ο θρησκευτικός γραμματισμός και η θρησκευτικότητα των αποφοίτων (2020) της ελληνικής εκπαίδευσης / Religious literacy and religiosity of the Greek school education graduates (2020)

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