ACTEURS MEDIATIQUES ET ACTEURS RELIGIEUX AU SENEGAL : L'IMPOSSIBLE ENTENTE ENTRE DEUX POUVOIRS
Résumé
This contribution discusses the relationship between the media field and religious power in Senegal. Specifically, it is an analysis of how the media treatment of facts having to do with religion and particularly the Muslim brotherhoods constitutes a risk to which media actors in Senegal are subjected. Thus, from a documentary and empirical research, it is observed a media field in full effervescence and in search of autonomy in an environment dominated by a religious power which has finished imposing its force in the socio-political field in the Senegal. It is a power often carried by Muslim leaders commonly referred to as “marabouts’’ who enjoy a certain traditional and charismatic legitimacy allowing them to lead masses. This power, being hostile to criticism and controversy, limits the freedom and autonomy of the media due to the symbolic violence and the physical violence suffered by journalists having to deal with a feature directly or indirectly linked to these religious figures. This is thus analyzed as a risk for media actors who are threatened, beaten up and sacked by disciplines grouped together like a parallel police at the service of their guides. As a solution to this situation, this contribution proposes and justifies the specialization of Senegalese journalists, especially in the religious field. This could limit
certain “drifts” considered to be the main cause of this conflicting relationship between the media field
and religious power in Senegal
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