Muslims as a religious minority in Uganda

该研究项目调查了乌干达的穆斯林如何在当地和国家背景下将自己定位为宗教少数群体，以及在这一过程中，他们如何在公共场合定义和构建与基督徒的关系。该项目并不完全关注穆斯林，而是通过研究穆斯林和基督徒之间的边界工作来解决这些问题。为此，该项目研究了话语和听觉实践以及象征形式，通过这些形式，穆斯林和基督徒寻求获得更大的公众声望，参与关于社会和道德生活秩序的辩论，并谈判他们的相互关系。该项目从媒体研究的角度解决这些问题，特别关注美学和感官，象征形式，通过电子媒体部分补救，使乌干达的穆斯林体验宗教社区，并反思他们在地方和国家背景下的少数民族地位。两个不同的地方环境，说明了两个基本上不同的机会，体验宗教社区和结构穆斯林-基督教关系在乌干达的比较研究。因此，这些比较案例研究使人们能够进一步思考穆斯林和基督徒之间这些区域性的不同遭遇对穆斯林试图在国家竞技场中获得更大政治存在的不同影响。

The research project investigates how Muslims in Uganda position themselves as a religious minority in local and national contexts and how, in this process, they define and structure their relations to Christians in public arenas. Rather than focusing exclusively on Muslims, the project addresses these questions by looking at the boundary work effected between Muslims and Christians. To this end, the project examines the discursive and auditory practices and symbolic forms through which Muslims and Christians seek to achieve greater public prominence, to partake in debates over the ordering of social and moral life, and to negotiate their mutual relationship. The project addresses these questions from a media studies perspective, by paying particular attention to the aesthetic and sensory, symbolic forms that, partly remediated via electronic media, allow Muslims in Uganda to experience religious community and to reflect on their minority position in local and national contexts.The project pursues these objectives through a regionally based, comparative examination of two different local settings that illustrate two substantially distinct opportunities for experiencing religious community and for structuring Muslim-Christian relations in Uganda. These comparative case studies thus enable further reflection on the differential implications of these regionally diverse encounters between Muslims' and Christians for Muslims attempts to gain greater political presence in the national arena.