Cyber Muslims (eBook, ePUB)

Mapping Islamic Digital Media in the Internet Age
Redaktion: Rozehnal, Robert

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Through an array of detailed case studies, this book explores the vibrant digital expressions of diverse groups of Muslim cybernauts: religious clerics and Sufis, feminists and fashionistas, artists and activists, hajj pilgrims and social media influencers. These stories span a vast cultural and geographic landscape-from Indonesia, Iran, and the Arab Middle East to North America.

These granular case studies contextualize cyber Islam within broader social trends: racism and Islamophobia, gender dynamics, celebrity culture, identity politics, and the shifting terrain of contemporary religious piety and practice.

The book's authors examine an expansive range of digital multimedia technologies as primary "texts." These include websites, podcasts, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube channels, online magazines and discussion forums, and religious apps. The contributors also draw on a range of methodological and theoretical models from multiple academic disciplines, including communication and media studies, anthropology, history, global studies, religious studies, and Islamic studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350233713
• Artikelnr.: 63321325

Autorenporträt

Robert Rozehnal is Professor of Religion Studies and the Founding Director of the Center for Global Islamic Studies at Lehigh University, USA. His books include Cyber Sufis: Virtual Expressions of the American Muslim Experience (2019) and Piety, Politics and Everyday Ethics in Southeast Asian Islam: Beautiful Behavior (Bloomsbury, 2019).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Mapping Islamic Digital Media in the Internet Age
Robert Rozehnal (Lehigh University
USA) Part I: Authority and Authenticity 1. The Net Imam Effect: Digital Contestation of #Islam and Religious Authority
Gary R. Bunt (University of Wales-Trinity Saint David
UK) 2. Hybrid Imams: Young Muslims and Religious Authority on Social Media
Sana Patel 3. Mediating Authority: A Sufi Shaykh in Multiple Media
Ismail Fajrie Alatas (New York University
USA) Part II: Community and Identity 4. Stream If You Want: See Something
Say Something and the Humanizing Potential of Digital Islam
Caleb Elfenbein
Grinnell College
USA 5. Latinx Muslim Digital Landscapes: Locating Networks and Cultural Practices
Harold Morales (Morgan State University
USA) and Madelina Nuñez (Purdue University
USA) 6. Revisiting Digital Islamic Feminism: Multiple Resistances
Identities
and Online Communities
Sahar Khamis (University of Maryland
College Park
USA) 7. #MuslimGirlWoke: A Muslim Lifestyle Website Challenges Intersectional Oppression
Kristin M. Peterson (Boston College
USA) Part III: Piety and Performance 8. The Digital Niqabosphere as a Hypermediated Third Space
Anna Piela (Northwestern University
USA) 9. Islam as Meditation: Mindfulness Apps for Muslims in the Digital Spiritual Marketplace
Megan Adamson Sijapati
(Gettysburg College
USA) 10. From Mecca With Love: Muslim Religious Apps and the Centering of Mecca
Andrea Stanton (University of Denver
USA) 11. Seeing a Global Islam?: Eid al-Adha on Instagram
Rosemary Pennington (Miami University
USA) Part IV: Visual and Cultural (Re)presentation 12. Defining Islamic Art: Practices and Digital Reconfigurations
Hussein Rashid (Independent Scholar
USA) 13.Dousing the Flame: The Political Work of Religious Satire in Contemporary Indonesia
James B. Hoesterey (Emory University
USA) 14. The Instagram Cleric: History
Technicity
and Shii Iranian Jurists in the Age of Social Media
Babak Rahimi
(University of California-San Diego
USA) 15. Muslims Between the Blackmail of Transparency and the Right to Opacity
Nabil Echchaibi (University of Colorado-Boulder
USA) Notes Bibliography Index