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Muslims Making British Media
Popular Culture, Performance and Public Religion
By: Carl Morris
Series: Islam of the Global West
240 Pages
- Hardcover
- ISBN: 9781350265356
- Published By: Bloomsbury Academic
- Published: December 2022
$115.00
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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.
Carl Morris is Lecturer in Religion, Culture and Society at the University of Central Lancashire, UK.