Faith and Language Practices in Digital Spaces / / ed. by Andrey Rosowsky.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Akande, Iyabode Deborah,; Naggar, Shaimaa El,; Omoniyi, Tope,; Pandharipande, Rajeshwari V.,; Rosowsky, Andrey,; Salami, L. Oladipo,; Sawin, Thor,; Soldat-Jaffe, Tatjana,; Souza, Ana,; Spolsky, Bernard,
• HerausgeberIn: Rosowsky, Andrey,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This volume shares the results of research conducted within and across the complex nexus of language, religion and new technologies. It identifies the dynamic and mobile ways religious practice and language interact online to modify, confirm, transform and consolidate linguistic resources and repertoires. It makes a significant contribution to work in the emerging sub-discipline of the sociology of language and religion and adds to the growing work on digital religion. It also showcases leading and ground-breaking researchers working on online and offline examples of the complex relationships evinced by the study of language and religion. The chapter authors explore a wide range of religions, technologies and languages in order to provide an innovative insight into the overlap between the study of language and religion and language and technology.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- 1. Faith and Language Practices in Digital Spaces: An Introduction -- Part 1. Faith, Language and Social Media -- 2. Re-Parishing in Social Media: Identity-Based Virtual Faith Communities and Physical Parishes -- 3. Facebook: A Medium for the Language Planning of Migrant Churches -- Part 2. Faith, Language and Transnational Online Practices -- 4. Ifa, the Word and the Virtual World: A Study of the Perceptions of and Attitudes toward Ifa Religious Tradition on the Internet -- 5. Globalising Yoruba Taboos and their Sociocultural and Religious Values -- 6. Yiddish Wikipedia: History Revisited -- Part 3. Faith, Language and Online Televangelism -- 7. Digital Evangelism: Varieties of English in Unexpected Places -- 8. American Muslim Televangelists as Religious Celebrities: The Changing 'Face' of Religious Discourse -- Part 4. Faith, Language and Online Ritual -- 9. Online Satsang and Online Puja: Faith and Language in the Era of Globalisation -- 10. Virtual Allegiance: Online 'Bayʿah' Practices within a Worldwide Sufi Order -- Part 5. Afterword -- 11. Afterword -- Index