Social Media and Religious Change (eBook)

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David Herbert, University of Ågder, Norway; Marie Gillespie, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK; Anita Greenhill, University of Manchester, UK.

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 Change 9
2 Media and the Sacred: An Evaluation of the ‘Strong Program’ within Cultural Sociology 23
3 Christianity, Secularism and Religious Diversity in the British Media 45
4 Religion for a Postsecular Society? Discourses of Gender, Religion and Secularity in the Reception of BBC2’s The Monastery and The Convent 67
5 Paradise Lost? Islamophobia, Post-liberalism and the Dismantling of State Multiculturalism in the Netherlands: The Role of Mass and Social Media 87
6 Modern-day Martyrs: Fans’ Online Reconstruction of Celebrities as Divine 111
7 Radical Islam, Globalisation and Social Media: Martyrdom Videos on the Internet 129
8 Grassroots Religion: Facebook and Offline Post-Denominational Judaism 151
9 Truck Stops and Fashion Shows: A Case Study of the Discursive Performance of Evangelical Christian Group Affiliation on YouTube 173
10 Bounded Religious Communities’ Management of the Challenge of New Media: Baha’í Negotiation with the Internet 193
11 Life, Death and Everyday Experience of Social Media 209
12 List of Contributors 227
Index 231