Muslims Making British Media - Popular Culture, Performance and Public Religion

Drawing on original fieldwork, Carl Morris examines Muslim cultural production in Britain, with a focus on the performance-based entertainment industries: music, comedy, film, television and theatre. It is a seminal study that charts the growing agency and involvement of British Muslims in cultural production over the last two decades. Morris sets this discussion within the context of wider religious, social and cultural change, with important insights concerning the sociological profile, religious lives and public visibility of Muslims in contemporary Britain. Morris draws on theoretical considerations concerning the mediatization of religion and cosmopolitanization in a globally-connected world. He argues that a new generation of media-savvy and internationalist Muslim cultural producers in Britain are constructing counter narratives in the public sphere and are reshaping everyday religious lives within their own communities. This is having a profound impact upon areas that range from Islamic authority and religious practice, to political and public debate, and understandings of Muslim identity and belonging.>

Product details

• Authors: Carl Morris, Morris Carl
• Assisted by: Kambiz Ghaneabassiri (Editor), Frank Peter (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2024
• EAN: 9781350265394
• ISBN: 978-1-350-26539-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 231 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Islam of the Global West
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Islam, Media Studies, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, RELIGION / Islam / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Islamic Studies, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups