Religion, Crime and Media
The aim of the project is to explore the complex and complicated relationship between religion, media, and crime. We want to ask the question: What can we learn from looking at the religion-media-crime triangle about society that we could not otherwise learn by looking at religion and media, or religion and crime, or media and crime separately or in isolation.
We encourage analyses of the various processes through which issues related to crime are created and made into public issues through the particular logic of media and the use of religious language. We are also interested in how media discourses about crime use religious motifs and thus shape understandings of aspects such as guilt, punishment or redemption. We are exploring how various stakeholders in the religion-media-crime triangle communicate witheach other and with the broader public about issues that touch on vertices of the triangle or the connections between the vertices, e.g. how media are used in prison ministry, how the police or the criminal justice system use religious motifs or practices in a media context to establish their own authority, etc.
To promote the relevance of our project and to demonstrate the impact the religion-media-crime triangle can have on everyday practices, concrete lives, or policies on a local or global level, we encourage projects that focus on or cooperate with organizations that are a part of this triangle, e.g. faith communities, criminal justice organizations, local policy makers, or media producers.
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