[Commlist] CfPs for Populism journal special issue: Religious populism in hybrid media

Call for papers: Religious Populism in Hybrid Media Special Issue

Journal: Populism

Guest Editors: Feeza Vasudeva and Dayei Oh

The relationship between religion and populism has been a topic of 
growing interest in recent years, as populist movements with religious 
supporters and institutions have gained prominence around the world. The 
connections between Donald Trump and Evangelical Christianity in the 
United States, Viktor Orbán and Christianity in Hungary, and Narendra 
Modi and Hindu nationalists in India, are only a few examples.

At the same time, new forms of media and hybrid media environments (cf. 
Chadwick, 2013; Hoover, 2020) have emerged and transformed public 
discourse, influencing the production, reception, and circulation of 
populist concepts. The logic of ‘media populism’ (Mazzoleni, 2003) 
identifies that populist actors reach for new audiences through 
mediatising 'personalisation, emotionalization, and anti-establishment 
attitude’ (Mudde, 2007). Scholarly attention has been paid to the 
distinctive rhetorical style and communicative strategies of mediatized 
populism, such as playing up the intimacy and closeness of populist 
politicians to portray them as the representatives of the people against 
the establishment. However, not enough attention has been given to 
mediatized religious populism.

This call for papers seeks to explore the intersection of religion, 
populism, and hybrid media,focusing on the many ways these associations 
interact and shape one another. We welcome conceptual, methodological, 
and empirical research works. Possible topic areas include (but are not 
limited to):

  * Populism and Religion
  * Religious Nationalism and Xenophobia
  * Mediatized religious populism
  * Religion, Populism, and Conspiracy Theories
  * New Religions, Cults, and Populism
  * Atheism and Populism
  * Transnational Nationalism(s) and Populism(s)
  * Populisms in Datafied Society
  * New Religious Constellations
  * Translocal and Hybrid Movements
  * Emotion and Affectivity
  * Epistemic contestations in Religious Populism
  * Institutionalized Populisms
  * Interfaith Dialogues and Religious Populism

  We welcome submissions from various disciplines, including media 
studies, sociology, religious studies, political science, and 
communication studies. We encourage interdisciplinary approaches and 
transnational studies that examine these phenomena across different 
geographical contexts.

The special issue will invite individual submissions based on approved 
abstracts. To submit anabstract for consideration, please email an MS 
Word document of no more than 500 words with author information to 
feeza.vasudeva[at]helsinki[dot]fi and cc: dayei.oh[at]helsinki[dot]fi 
using the subject header, “Religious Populism in Hybrid Media Special 
issue.” The deadline for receiving abstracts is *Sunday 7th April 2024*. 
Invited manuscripts of no more than 10,000 words (inclusive) mustbe 
submitted by* Sunday 25th August 2024* to the journal submission page to 
receive a double-blind peer review. No payment from the authors will be 
required.



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