Book Review: The Global Public Sphere: Public Communication in the Age of Reflective Interdependence

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 404-405
Author(s):  
Hans-Jörg Trenz
Etkileşim ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 98-127
Author(s):  
Ali Demir

Pluralistic public sphere is where sociological categories such as action, interests and identities, and the basic concepts of philosophy such as freedom, democracy, equality and difference, are connected with each other. Communication here has always been in interaction with personalities and identities. However, in time, public communication of social belongings based on difference or equality has led to some conflicts. Thinkers such as Thomas Hobbes, Immanuel Kant and Jürgen Habermas have studied miscommunication in public within the framework of the concept of pluralism, which is historically and sociologically related to religious identities. In the article, this connection of communication, interaction and relationships will be covered by the image of God in Gilgamesh, the function that Emile Durkheim attributed to religion, and some sociological examples.


Author(s):  
Julian Millie

Chapter Nine reflects further on the meanings of oral preaching in Indonesia’s Islamic public sphere, searching for alternatives to the modernist perspectives explored in earlier chapters. It finds support for the medium in the traditionalist project of the mass organisation known as NU (Nahdlatul Ulama, or the Rising of the Scholars). Through its doctrine as well as its characteristic forms of public communication, the organisation advocates passivity as an acceptable Muslim position.


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