Conclusion

In this concluding chapter, I first summarise the main arguments developed in the first part of this research. I then further unpack and situate the key findings within the broader field of enquiry. I also discuss the contribution and significance of this study and its findings to scholarship. The most important contribution is the development and proposal of the four-dimension democratic approach, which has enabled and illuminated, with all the empirical complexities, a systematic comparison of religion news coverage in the UK and Turkey. While I developed and proposed it deductively and inductively, the results also confirm its necessity and suggest that this democratic approach can achieve its purpose and contribute to more comprehensive and balanced reporting of religion. Therefore, I consider that this approach could serve as a democracy index or as a guide against which newspapers and possibly other news media can measure up their coverage of religion.