Threat and Terror: Representations to cause fear
Fundamentalism is the new Red Threat. How do we analyze claims in a variety of media that link violence with religion, or violence and certain types of political ideology?
Readings examples:
- Lincoln, Bruce. 2003. The Study of Religion in the Current Political Moment. In Holy Terrors: Thinking about Religion After September 11, 1-18. University of Chicago Press. UBC library [link]
- Terror and God. 3-15. Armageddon in a Tokyo Subway. 102-116. Juergensmeyer, Mark. 2003. Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence. University of California Press. UBC library [link]
- Tambiah, Stanley J. 1992. Buddhism Betrayed: Religion, Politics, and Violence in Sri Lanka. University of Chicago Press.
- Tekwani, Shyam, ed. 2008. Media and Conflict Reporting in Asia. AMIC.
- Towards a Theorisation of the Link Between Media, Religion and Conflict. 145-161. Marsden, Lee, and Heather Savigny, eds. 2009. Media, Religion, and Conflict. Ashgate Publishing. UBC library [link]
- Maslog, Crispin C., Seow Ting Lee, and Hun Shik Kim. 2006. Framing Analysis of a Conflict: How Newspapers in Five Asian countries Covered the Iraq War. Asian Journal of Communication 16. 1: 19–39.
- Palmer-Fernández, Gabriel, ed. 2004. The Encyclopedia of Religion and War. Taylor & Francis.
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