Arab TV-Audiences: Negotiating Religion and Identity

Focusing on mediated religion as it is transnationally and globally practiced and consumed by Arab-speaking audiences, this volume in six studies examines Arab responses to religion in Arab media, and explores how Arab Muslims and Christians in different contexts make use of the narratives--religious, cultural, and political--offered by Arab media to construct ideas about believing and belonging intra and internationally. There are seven essays: where has the authority gone?; audience responses to Islamic TV: between resistance and piety; cyber religious-national community? The case of Arab community in Germany; Maghrebi audiences: mapping the divide between Arab sentiment, Islamic belonging and political praxis; religious media as a cultural discourse: the view of the Arab diaspora in London; watching the history of the “present”: religion and national identity in the Egyptian diaspora; minority religion mediated: contesting representation. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)