Social Media and Religious Change / / ed. by David Eric John Herbert, Anita Greenhill, Marie Gillespie.

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 Britis...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Religion and Society , 53
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • 1. Introduction: Social Media and Religious Change
  • 2. Media and the Sacred: An Evaluation of the ‘Strong Program’ within Cultural Sociology
  • 3. Christianity, Secularism and Religious Diversity in the British Media
  • 4. Religion for a Postsecular Society? Discourses of Gender, Religion and Secularity in the Reception of BBC2’s The Monastery and The Convent
  • 5. Paradise Lost? Islamophobia, Post-liberalism and the Dismantling of State Multiculturalism in the Netherlands: The Role of Mass and Social Media
  • 6. Modern-day Martyrs: Fans’ Online Reconstruction of Celebrities as Divine
  • 7. Radical Islam, Globalisation and Social Media: Martyrdom Videos on the Internet
  • 8. Grassroots Religion: Facebook and Offline Post-Denominational Judaism
  • 9. Truck Stops and Fashion Shows: A Case Study of the Discursive Performance of Evangelical Christian Group Affiliation on YouTube
  • 10. Bounded Religious Communities’ Management of the Challenge of New Media: Baha’í Negotiation with the Internet
  • 11. Life, Death and Everyday Experience of Social Media
  • 12. List of Contributors
  • Index