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Social Media and Religious Change (Hardcover)
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Social Media and Religious Change (Hardcover)
Series: Religion and Society
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This volume offers unique insights into the mutually constitutive
nature of social media practices and religious change. Part 1
examines how social media operate in conjunction with mass media in
the construction of discourses of religion and spirituality. It
includes: a longitudinal study of British news media coverage of
Christianity, secularism and religious diversity (Knott et al.); an
analysis of responses to two documentaries 'The Monastery' and 'The
Convent' (Thomas); an evaluation of theories of the sacred in
studies of religion and media within the 'strong program' in
cultural sociology in the US (Lynch); and a study of the
consequences of mass and social media synergies for public
perceptions of Islam in the Netherlands (Herbert). Part 2 examines
the role of social media in the construction of contemporary
martyrs and media celebrities (e.g., Michael Jackson) using mixed
and mobile methods to analyse fan sites (Bennett & Campbell)
and jihadi websites and YouTube (Nauta). Part 3 examines how
certain bounded religious communities negotiate the challenges of
social media: Judaism in Second Life (Abrams & Baker); Bah'ai
regulation of web use among members (Campbell & Fulton);
YouTube evangelists (Pihlaja); and public expressions of
bereavement (Greenhill & Fletcher). The book provides
theoretically informed empirical case studies and presents an
intriguing, complex picture of the aesthetic and ethical,
demographic and discursive aspects of new spaces of communication
and their implications for religious institutions, beliefs and
practices.
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