1st Edition
Performing Atheist Selves in Digital Publics U.S. Women and Non-Religious Identity Online
By Evelina Lundmark
Copyright 2023
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book considers how the non-religious self is performed publicly online, and how digital culture and technology shapes this process. Building on a YouTube case study with women vloggers, it presents unique empirical data on non-organized atheism in the United States. Lundmark suggests that the atheist self as performed online exists in tension between a perception of atheism as sinful and... Read more
Introduction: US Women and Non-Religious Identity Online
1. Atheist Identity in the United States: Civil Religion and Christian Privilege
2. New Atheist Discourse and Hyper Rationality: Authority, Femininity, Atheism
3. Precarious Selves: Digital Media and Exacerbated Vulnerabilities
4. Third Spaces: Evoking Resonance
5. Counter Publics: Resistance Through Dissonance
Index
Biography
Evelina Lundmark currently holds a postdoctoral position at Agder University in Norway. She has a PhD in the Sociology of Religion from Uppsala University, Sweden.
