MMCCRITDM - Religious minorities and the media: The communicative construction of religious identity in times of deep mediatisation.

媒体对欧洲难民危机的广泛报道加强了媒体边缘化基督教少数群体的趋势。这尤其影响到小的基督教社区，迫使他们重新思考他们在身份建设话语中的自我概念。像我们是谁？我们在社会中的角色是什么？又回到了议程上。我们认为，媒体在这些宗教少数群体的身份建设话语中发挥着至关重要的作用。该项目的主要研究问题是基督教少数群体如何通过宗教媒体的使用来构建他们的身份。我们认为，少数基督教教会的代表使用宗教媒体（有意和无意），以构建他们的社区的宗教身份，这一过程反映在媒体使用的宗教行为者，谁创造特定的身份话语通过不同的渠道。通过在最不同的系统设计中进行有目的的抽样，选择了波兰和联合王国的东正教和基督复临安息日会作为案例研究（Otner 2010）。这种选择是合理的，因为不同的宗教结构和人口结构，以及不同的媒体组合。迄今为止，这两个教会都没有以类似的比较视角进行分析。结合使用定性研究工具和数据收集方法（媒体内容分析、情景访谈）和数据分析（批判话语分析）将揭示宗教身份的哪些方面在其建构过程中至关重要，宗教身份在多大程度上与国家宗教环境和占主导地位的宗教身份叙事相关，以及宗教身份建构背后的权力关系。该项目将填补宗教研究中现有的空白，因为它将调查媒体叙事和基督教少数群体身份建构之间的关系。此外，该项目将提供一个比较的视角，显示两国之间的差异和相似之处，基督教少数教会和宗教环境一样。

The extensive media coverage of the European refugee crisis has reinforced the tendency of media marginalisation of Christian minorities. This has affected in particular small Christian communities by forcing them to rethink their self-concept in identity-building discourses. Questions like who are we? and what is our role in the society? have come back to the agenda. We argue that media play a crucial role in these identity-building discourses of religious minorities. The main research question of the project is how Christian minorities construct their identity through religious media use. We argue that the representatives of minority Christian Churches use religious media (both intentionally and unintentionally) to construct the religious identity of their communities, and that this process is reflected in media use by religious actors, who create particular identity discourses by means of different outlets. The Orthodox and the 7th Day Adventist Church in Poland and the United Kingdom were selected as case studies by way of purposeful sampling within the most different system design (Otner 2010). The choice is justified by the differing religious structure and demographics, as well as varying media ensembles. Neither of the Churches has been analysed with a similar comparative perspective to date. Deploying a combination of qualitative research tools and methods of data collection (media content analysis, episodic interviews) and data analysis (critical discourse analysis) will show what aspects of religious identity are crucial in the process of its construction, to what degree religious identities are related to the national religious milieu and the dominant religious identity narratives, and what power relations behind religious identity construction can be identified. This project will fill an existing void within religious studies, as it will investigate the relationship between media narratives and Christian minorities identity construction. Furthermore, the project will offer a comparative perspective, showing differences and similarities between the two countries, Christian minority Churches and religious milieus alike.