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A training program to combat Islamophobic reporting According to Islamophobia in the Eyes of Muslims, a report by the Othering and Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley, “Muslim women tend to be the primary targets of Islamophobic incidents (74.3% of the time). ” The report adds, “The lack of reporting by victims (87.5%…
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A dialogue between Emma Green and David P. Gushee Donald Trump’s Electoral College victory in the 2016 presidential election exposed fundamental flaws in the way the media covered major social and political issues. When it came to issues such as racism, gender and sexual violence, migration and citizenship, and poverty, mainstream media outlets amplified the…
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Ruth Tsuria is an associate professor at Seton Hall University’s Department of Communication, Media, and the Arts. Her research, which investigates the intersection of digital media, culture, and feminism, has been published in various prestigious academic outlets, such as the International Journal of Communication and Social Media + Society. She is the recipient of the…
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A workshop on new approaches to portraying religious traditions in the media. Have you noticed any patterns in the way that religion is portrayed in the media? For instance, how are Muslims usually characterized? Does the depiction of Muslims differ from how Christians or Buddhists are portrayed? What images or concepts come to mind when…
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Spirituality, ecology, and ethics in India’s time of thirst When the water isn’t fit for bathing a people’s gods—and not even safe for the people to drink—then what is next? Tulasi Srinivas explores the connections between spiritual, ecological, and humanitarian tragedy in her article for The Revealer, “Bathing the Gods in Bottled Water: An Account…
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Northeastern University students report on religious diversity just outside the academy walls. Fourteen Northeastern University students participated in the “Reporting Religion” course, co-taught by religious studies professor Carlene Hempel and journalism professor Elizabeth Bucar. This entailed reporting on religious life 3,510 miles away in Granada, Spain. Understanding religious life and diversity beyond the classroom was,…
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An experiential course for journalism students Granada, Spain, is one of those cities where multiple religious communities converge. It is home to mainline Protestants, Catholics, Pentecostals, Seventh-day Adventists, and Anglicans as well as Muslims, Hindus, Tibetan Buddhists, Jews, and Rastafari. Like many multicultural cities, it has seen the rise and fall of different occupying powers—such…
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A special issue of the award-winning online magazine By . . . . 2018, stories about abusive priests had become both routine and shocking—routine in that Americans were accustomed to such reports, and shocking in that there seemed no end to new revelations about abusive clergy and the institutions that protected them. —Brett Krutzsch, The…
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A portal into the digital world of Islamic studies In the political sphere, the term sharia is frequently used and often abused—particularly by political figures in the West. Directly translated from Arabic, “sharīʿah” means “the path” or “the way.” Practically, sharia (or Islamic law) is a set of sacred imperatives that direct the everyday lives…
