: Marie Gillespie, David Eric John Herbert, Anita Greenhill
: Social Media and Religious Change
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
: 9783110270488
: Religion and SocietyISSN
: 1
: CHF 148.90
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: Allgemeines, Lexika
: English
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Amongst books on religion and the internet, this collection is distinctive in addressing the interaction between social and mass media in the construction of contemporary religion and spirituality, and public understandings of them. Topics discussed include the implications of social media for religious authority, the implications of mediatisation for community relations, and the challenges of social media for traditionally bounded religious communities.



Marie Gillespie, Open Univ., Milton Keynes, UK;David Herbert, Univ. of Ågder, Norway;Anita Greenhill, Univ. of Manchester, UK.
1 Introduction: Social Media and Religious Change9
2 Media and the Sacred: An Evaluation of the ‘Strong Program’ within Cultural Sociology23
3 Christianity, Secularism and Religious Diversity in the British Media45
4 Religion for a Postsecular Society? Discourses of Gender, Religion and Secularity in the Reception of BBC2’s The Monastery and The Convent67
5 Paradise Lost? Islamophobia, Post-liberalism and the Dismantling of State Multiculturalism in the Netherlands: The Role of Mass and Social Media87
6 Modern-day Martyrs: Fans’ Online Reconstruction of Celebrities as Divine111
7 Radical Islam, Globalisation and Social Media: Martyrdom Videos on the Internet129
8 Grassroots Religion: Facebook and Offline Post-Denominational Judaism151
9 Truck Stops and Fashion Shows: A Case Study of the Discursive Performance of Evangelical Christian Group Affiliation on YouTube173
10 Bounded Religious Communities’ Management of the Challenge of New Media: Baha’í Negotiation with the Internet193
11 Life, Death and Everyday Experience of Social Media209
12 List of Contributors227
Index231