Erkan Binici, M.A. (Center for Islamic Theology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen): "Religiöse Sozialisation (muslimischer) Jugendlicher in mediatisierter Welt. Eine qualitativ-rekonstruktive Studie zum Schnittbereich von Medien und Religion"

• Datum: 18. December 2024
• Time: 16:15
• Street: Linzer Straße 4
• Location: ZeMKI
• Room: 60.070

The study examines how Muslim young people perceive religion in the media, where & 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 young people’s dealings with religion in the media & 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 significantly 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 & 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 were documented in the everyday media activities of the young people. It was shown that these forms of self-interpretation and interpretation of the world structure both media activities and religious activities and that the orientation of action is therefore identical in both areas.

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Erkan Binici is a research assistant and doctoral candidate at the Chair of Islamic Religious Education at the University of Tübingen. In an interdisciplinary research project, he is working on and researching 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.