Media and Religion in the Arab/Islamic World
Media and Religion in the Arab/Islamic World

Summary/Abstract: The past few decades have borne out the warning made more than thirty years ago by Jacques Ellul, the French moral philosopher and sociologist, that the phenomenal development of mass media would revolutionize politics, with the flood of information and discontinuous facts overwhelming any sense of historic context. Now more than ever, with religion and politics often having become overtly intertwined, the lack of historic context is a massive problem. We have gotten used to this dismal situation where the parade of facts usually lacks the vital context, especially in the context of religion.

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