Orientalism in reporting religion: Approaches to teaching journalism and Islam as a civilization

• Main Author: Merican, Ahmad Murad
• Format: Article
• Published: University of Wollongong 2010
• Subjects: AZ History of Scholarship The Humanities; H Social Sciences (General); BL Religion; P Philology. Linguistics; HM Sociology
• Online Access: http://eprints.utp.edu.my/3951/1/viewcontent.pdf; http://www.uow.edu.au/; http://eprints.utp.edu.my/3951/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas

After years of discourse on the distortion of Islam by the media, this paper suggests that the link in understanding the (mis)representation of Islam is in the corpus of Orientalism. It argues that reporting on religions, or reporting on Islam, be adopted as critical components in the curricula of...