Religion and anti-immigration discourses. A comparative case study of the Czech republic and Germany

• Thesis title in Czech: Náboženství a antiimigrační diskursy: Srovnávací případová studie České republiky a Německa
• Thesis title in English: Religion and anti-immigration discourses. A comparative case study of the Czech republic and Germany
• Key words: discourse analysis|religion|immigration|discourse|media
• English key words: discourse analysis|religion|immigration|discourse|media
• Academic year of topic announcement: 2018/2019
• Thesis type: Bachelor's thesis
• Thesis language: angličtina
• Department: Institute of Political Science (21-UPOL)
• Supervisor: PhDr. Ondřej Slačálek, Ph.D.
• Author: hidden - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept.
• Date of registration: 14.11.2018
• Date of assignment: 16.11.2018
• Administrator's approval: not processed yet
• Confirmed by Study dept. on: 05.03.2019
• Date and time of defence: 11.09.2019 09:00
• Date of electronic submission: 11.07.2019
• Date of proceeded defence: 11.09.2019
• Submitted/finalized: committed by student and finalized
• Opponents: Mgr. Jakub Ort, Ph.D.

Guidelines

The student will analyze the relationship between the role of religion (especially various forms of Christianity) in the political culture of the Czech Republic and Germany, and in the intensity and form of Islamophobia in public debate in the two countries. The theoretical framework will have as its basis Roger Brubaker´s concept of Christianism. In both countries she will analyse how references to religion and to Christianity in particular have been used in the public debate. She will use qualitative content analysis (complemented by some impulses from critical discourse analysis) to analyse selected episodes which she considers to be particularly telling.

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