1st Edition

Blogging My Religion Secular, Muslim, and Catholic Media Spaces in Europe

By Giulia Evolvi Copyright 2019
186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

186 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Religion in Europe is currently undergoing changes that are reconfiguring physical and virtual spaces of practice and belief, and these changes need to be understood with regards to the proliferation of digital media discourses. This book explores religious change in Europe through a comparative approach that analyzes Atheist, Catholic, and Muslim blogs as spaces for articulating narratives about... Read more

Introduction: Discussing Religious Change in Catholic Europe  1 The Hypermediation of Religion: Situating Religion in a Media-Saturated World  2 Hypermediated Religious Spaces: Conceptualizing Religion in Digital Spaces  3 Muslim and European: Spaces to Defeat Stereotypes and Articulate Hybrid Identities  4 Thank God I’m an Atheist: Digital Spaces for the Promotion Of Laïcité  5 Who is Afraid of Gender? Catholic Anti-Gender Spaces of Public Protest  6 Conclusion: Creating Hypermediated Spaces of Religious Change in Catholic Europe

Biography

Giulia Evolvi is a Research Associate in Religion and Media at Ruhr University, Germany. Her research interests include religion and materiality, secularization, Islam and Islamophobia. She has published various articles and chapters on these subjects in publications such as Media History, Social Compass, and Information, Communication & Society.