Social Media and Religious Change

Author： Edited by Gillespie Marie; Herbert David Eric John; Greenhill Anita

Publisher： De Gruyter‎

Publication year： 2013

E-ISBN: 9783110270488

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9783110270457

Subject：

Keyword：宗教,语言学

Language： ENG

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Description

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.

Chapter

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