Muslims Making British Media: Popular Culture, Performance and Public Religion

Carl Morris examines Muslim cultural production in Britain, focusing on performance-based entertainment industries, and argues that a new generation of media-savvy and internationalist Muslim cultural producers are constructing counter narratives and reshaping everyday religious lives.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 27 June 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Carl Morris' groundbreaking study explores Muslim cultural production in Britain, particularly in the performance-based entertainment industries of music, comedy, film, television, and theatre. It provides a comprehensive overview of the growing agency and involvement of British Muslims in cultural production over the past two decades, within the broader context of religious, social, and cultural change. Morris highlights the sociological profile, religious lives, and public visibility of Muslims in contemporary Britain, drawing on theoretical considerations of the mediatization of religion and cosmopolitanization in a globally-connected world. He argues that a new generation of media-savvy and internationalist Muslim cultural producers in Britain is constructing counter narratives in the public sphere and reshaping everyday religious lives within their own communities. This has significant implications for Islamic authority, religious practice, political and public debate, and understandings of Muslim identity and belonging. Morris's study offers valuable insights into the evolving role of Muslim cultural production in shaping British society and culture.

Weight: 362g
Dimension: 234 x 155 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350265394