In today’s society, the media affects young people and their understanding of different aspects of society – and religion is no exception. In the academic field of religious studies, using the term ”religion” in an uncritical way has received a lot of criticism as it may overlook the fact that ”religion” as we know it, has had different meanings in different times and in different cultures and societies. Having this in mind, the aim of this essay is to, on the basis of critical discourse analysis, examine what discourses surround the concept of religion in the digital newspapers Aftonbladet and Expressen. The result and analysis are based on the findings from the different articles from the two newspapers. The findings indicate that a We and Them – discourse was present in the newspapers. This category of discourse was characterized by using formulations such as ”the other” to separate between different groups of people and especially between secular and non– secular societies. In this category, the concept of religion was very much connected to Islam, which in turn was described as something distant and foreign. Hence, the concept of religion was depicted as ”the other”. The second discourse named Religion and Violence made use of two different perspectives. The first perspective made use of religion as a concept in order to make connections to religion and violence. In contrast, the second perspective provided a critical view on the correlations of religion and violence. The discourses that were suggested in the study overlapped one another, hence the We and Them –discourse acted as a point of departure for the second discourse on Religion and Violence.