Kathleen Foody
Biographic Data
| ID | 5178971 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen Foody |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Foody |
| SIGNATURE | FOODY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of Charleston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The World of Islam
This article draws on conversations about liberal religion to explore how international events attempt to stage ‘good Islam’ for non-Muslim publics. It does this by focusing on an understudied event from post-empire Britain: the 1976 World of Islam Festival. Here, I focus on how Muslim and non-Muslim actors, ideas about universalism, perennialism and religion, and international politics organised the presentation of ‘good’ Islam in the 1970s. I a…
On Islam
Scholars have been examining how the media represent Islam and Muslims for decades. They have shown that news reports too often depict Islam as frightening and foreign. Even when ‘good’ Muslims appear in the media they do so alongside the ever-present ‘bad’ Muslim (see Evelyn Alsultany). Rosemary Pennington and Hilary E. Kahn focus less on the research behind these representations in On Islam: Muslims and the Media. Their concern is to overcome s…
Muslims in the American Media
Much scholarship on Islamophobia has offered helpful analyses of the ways that news media, film, television, and even political cartoons represent Muslims generally and Arabs specifically as threating, dangerous, and entirely foreign. In contrast, I argue that analysis of Islamophobic media also requires moving from content analyses to explore why, when, and to whom these representations matter. This article draws on studies of affect to analyse …
The limits of religion
This essay investigates the ways that ‘religion,’ as a particular category of discourse, organised Muslim debates in the Islamic Republic of Iran during the 1990s and early 2000s. Recent work in the study of religion has highlighted not only liberalism’s privatised and largely protestant notion of religion, but also the ways that understanding of religion affects the representation of Islam in the West. Studies of Islam, continuing the critique o…
Pedagogical Projects
Considering Public Criticism
Interiorizing Islam
Recent work in religious studies has turned from a long-standing focus on interior expressions of religion to emphasize instead embodied worship and the materiality of religious expression. Yet, for all the worthwhile critique of experience as a theoretical category, in practice various communities have taken up the language of experience as a central term for their own traditions. Scholars of religion have traced the cross-pollination of modern …
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Islam and dissent in postrevolutionary Iran
Interiorizing Islam
Recent work in religious studies has turned from a long-standing focus on interior expressions of religion to emphasize instead embodied worship and the materiality of religious expression. Yet, for all the worthwhile critique of experience as a theoretical category, in practice various communities have taken up the language of experience as a central term for their own traditions. Scholars of religion have traced the cross-pollination of modern …
The limits of religion
This essay investigates the ways that ‘religion,’ as a particular category of discourse, organised Muslim debates in the Islamic Republic of Iran during the 1990s and early 2000s. Recent work in the study of religion has highlighted not only liberalism’s privatised and largely protestant notion of religion, but also the ways that understanding of religion affects the representation of Islam in the West. Studies of Islam, continuing the critique o…
Muslims in the American Media
Much scholarship on Islamophobia has offered helpful analyses of the ways that news media, film, television, and even political cartoons represent Muslims generally and Arabs specifically as threating, dangerous, and entirely foreign. In contrast, I argue that analysis of Islamophobic media also requires moving from content analyses to explore why, when, and to whom these representations matter. This article draws on studies of affect to analyse …
Pedagogical Projects
Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Islam and dissent in postrevolutionary Iran
Considering Public Criticism
Interiorizing Islam
Recent work in religious studies has turned from a long-standing focus on interior expressions of religion to emphasize instead embodied worship and the materiality of religious expression. Yet, for all the worthwhile critique of experience as a theoretical category, in practice various communities have taken up the language of experience as a central term for their own traditions. Scholars of religion have traced the cross-pollination of modern …
The limits of religion
This essay investigates the ways that ‘religion,’ as a particular category of discourse, organised Muslim debates in the Islamic Republic of Iran during the 1990s and early 2000s. Recent work in the study of religion has highlighted not only liberalism’s privatised and largely protestant notion of religion, but also the ways that understanding of religion affects the representation of Islam in the West. Studies of Islam, continuing the critique o…
Pedagogical Projects
Muslims in the American Media
Much scholarship on Islamophobia has offered helpful analyses of the ways that news media, film, television, and even political cartoons represent Muslims generally and Arabs specifically as threating, dangerous, and entirely foreign. In contrast, I argue that analysis of Islamophobic media also requires moving from content analyses to explore why, when, and to whom these representations matter. This article draws on studies of affect to analyse …
On Islam
Scholars have been examining how the media represent Islam and Muslims for decades. They have shown that news reports too often depict Islam as frightening and foreign. Even when ‘good’ Muslims appear in the media they do so alongside the ever-present ‘bad’ Muslim (see Evelyn Alsultany). Rosemary Pennington and Hilary E. Kahn focus less on the research behind these representations in On Islam: Muslims and the Media. Their concern is to overcome s…
The World of Islam
This article draws on conversations about liberal religion to explore how international events attempt to stage ‘good Islam’ for non-Muslim publics. It does this by focusing on an understudied event from post-empire Britain: the 1976 World of Islam Festival. Here, I focus on how Muslim and non-Muslim actors, ideas about universalism, perennialism and religion, and international politics organised the presentation of ‘good’ Islam in the 1970s. I a…
Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Theology (7 works) · Islam (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (6 works) · Islamic Studies and History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works)