Dr. des. Erkan Binici (Centre for Islamic Theology, University of Münster): “Religious socialization of (Muslim) youths in a mediatized world. A qualitative-reconstructive study on the intersection of media and religion”

• Datum: 28. May 2025
• Time: 16:15
• Street: Linzer Str. 4
• Room: 60.070

The study examines how Muslim young people perceive religion in the media, where and how religion appears in their everyday media use and how they deal with religion in the media. To this end, 12 young people who see themselves as Muslim and are between the ages of 12 and 19 were interviewed between 2020 and 2023 about their everyday use of media and how religion appears in it. It is a qualitative-reconstructive approach that reconstructs patterns of action in the way young people deal with religion in the media and thus reveals deeper structures of the phenomenon of religious socialization in a mediatized world. Based on the concept of religious media socialization, as formulated by Pirner in 2004, the object of research is essentially framed by the theories/methodologies of mediatization, socialization and praxeological sociology of knowledge. The specific research question is: “Which action-guiding orientations structure the way Muslim young people deal with media and what connection is there to the way they deal with religion?”. Three different forms of self-interpretation and interpretation of the world could be reconstructed, which are documented in the everyday media activities of young people.It was shown that these forms of self-interpretation and interpretation of the world structure both the media actions and the religious actions and thus the action orientations in both areas are identical.

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Erkan Binici is a research assistant at the Center for Islamic Theology at the University of Münster.Most recently he was a doctoral student at the University of Tübingen.In an interdisciplinary research project, he conducted research on a VR learning environment to promote anti-discrimination skills in teacher training. He also works as a freelance speaker in political education and media education.