The Third Spaces of Digital Religion (Routledge Research in Religion, Media and Culture)

Synopsis

This exciting volume explores how religious meaning is generated and performed in our present digital media ecosystem. It uses the spatial metaphor of a third space to visualize the mobility of everyday religion and to explore the dynamic ways in which contemporary subjects imagine, produce, and navigate new religious and spiritual places. Comprised of seven original essays, this book provides a rigorous discussion of the complex intersections of the digital and religion, demonstrating how third spaces of religion stand out by virtue of their in-betweenness. They exist between private and public, between institution and individual, between authority and individual autonomy, between large media framings and individual "pro-sumption," and between local and translocal. Including probing analysis of how Muslim, Catholic, and Neo-Pagan identities are cultivated and developed online, case studies reflect on the creative outcomes of this condition of in-betweenness and the emergence of other places of religious and spiritual meaning. Blending theoretical analysis with grounded empirical research, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of contemporary religion, media and religion, sociology of religion, religion, and popular culture.

Copyright:

2023

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

124 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000841411

Related ISBNs:

9781003048190, 9780367524814, 9780367499471

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

03/02/23

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Nabil Echchaibi and Stewart M. Hoover

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Politics and Government

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Nabil Echchaibi

Edited by:

Stewart M. Hoover