Framing a Mosque Project as a Sunni–Shia Conflict: A Case Study on the Discursive Construction of News Frames
In January 2015, the City of Helsinki received a proposal for the construction of ‘a grand mosque’. In December 2017, the Urban Environment committee rejected the proposal. In the interim, the proposed mosque was the subject of intense public debate. A key point of dispute was whether the mosque wou...
| Published in: | Journal of Muslims in Europe |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2020]
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Journal of Muslims in Europe
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AG Religious life; material religion BJ Islam KBE Northern Europe; Scandinavia ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
Discourse Analysis
B mosque B Conflict B Finland B Sunni–Shia relations B news frames |
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| Summary: | In January 2015, the City of Helsinki received a proposal for the construction of ‘a grand mosque’. In December 2017, the Urban Environment committee rejected the proposal. In the interim, the proposed mosque was the subject of intense public debate. A key point of dispute was whether the mosque would increase tensions between Sunni and Shia Muslims in Finland. This article explores the ways in which the mosque project became framed as a Sunni-Shia conflict. Special focus is put on a newspaper article published in the Helsingin Sanomat in July 2015 and the framing devices used therein. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-7954 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Muslims in Europe
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/22117954-BJA10017 |