Cyber Muslims (eBook, PDF)

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

• Format: PDF

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 eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350233720
• Artikelnr.: 63322556

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