From Respected Religion Scholar Expert to Cartoon Character
Reflections in the Wake of the Danish Muhammad Cartoon Crisis and Three Decades as Expert to the Media
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22201632 |
|---|---|
| Authors | T Jensen (0000-0001-7748-9199, Leibniz University Hannover, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 333-352 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Changing Societies and Personalities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2587-6104 • E-ISSN: 2587-8964 |
| Publisher | Ural Federal University (PUBLISHER • RU) |
| DOI | 10.15826/csp.2019.3.4.081 |
| OpenAlex | W2999036424 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
Respected scholar, expert, public opinion maker, oracle, under-cover politician, charlatan, cartoon character – all roles “out there” waiting for scholars sharing knowledge with a wider public. Scholars of religion trying to carve out more room in the public arena for a nonreligious, scientific approach to religion always risk digging their graves as (respected) scholars. What’s worse, they also risk digging the grave for a valuable and respectable, as well as publicly valued and respected academic, scientific study of religion. The scholar popularizing scientifically based knowledge, not least via the mass media (daily newspapers or public television), may “become” political and controversial to such a degree that s/he becomes a problem for the scientific study of religion, the community of scholars of religion, and the university with which s/he is affiliated. The otherwise valuable engagement threatens the reputation of science as being something valuable, “pure” and “neutral,” elevated above the dirty business of politics and power. In spite of the risks, the engaged scholar, it is, however, also argued, actually can help to strengthen the position, inside and outside the academy, of scientifically based knowledge and of the critical, analytical, scientific study of religion
Media studies · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Public opinion · Reputation · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of scientific knowledge · Law · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Religion and Society Interactions · Study and Philosophy of Religion
Responsa Miniscula
The Politics of Wishful Thinking? Disentangling the Role of the Scholar-Scientist from that of the Public Intellectual in the Modern Academic Study of Religion
The Danish Cartoon Affair
The War in Iraq and the Academic Study of Religion
Affinities, Benefits, and Costs
Islam, Media and Minorities in Denmark
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |