1st Edition

The Third Spaces of Digital Religion

Edited By Stewart M Hoover, Nabil Echchaibi Copyright 2023
130 Pages
by Routledge

130 Pages
by Routledge

130 Pages
by Routledge

This exciting volume explores how religious meaning is generated and performed in our present digital media ecosystem. It uses the spatial metaphor of a third space to visualize the mobility of everyday religion and to explore the dynamic ways in which contemporary subjects imagine, produce, and navigate new religious and spiritual places. Comprised of seven original essays, this book provides... Read more

1. Introduction: Media Theory and the Third Spaces of Digital Religion

Stewart M. Hoover and Nabil Echchaibi

2. Neda: Religious Manifestations of a Digital Martyr

Samira Rajabi

3. Identity, Confession, and Performance in PostSecret

Stewart M. Hoover and Rachael Liberman

4. Queer Muslim Identity in the Third Space of Tumblr

Kristin M. Peterson

5. The Sacred Tech: Identity, Aesthetics, and Practice in Neo-Pagan Digital Spaces

Giulia Evolvi

6. Facebook as a Third Space of Digital Catholicism: The "Catholic" in Circulation and Reconstruction

Moisés Sbardelotto

7. Rewriting Religion: How LGBTQ Individuals Are Finding a Place of Belonging Online

Patrick M. Johnson

Biography

Nabil Echchaibi is Associate Professor of Media Studies and Director of the Center for Media, Religion, and Culture in the College of Media, Communication, and Information at the University of Colorado Boulder. His work focuses on Muslim media, Arab cultural production and aesthetics, and decoloniality.

Stewart M. Hoover is Professor Emeritus of Media Studies and Director Emeritus of the Center for Media, Religion, and Culture in the College of Media, Communication, and Information at the University of Colorado Boulder. A theorist of media audiences and audience research, his research is located at the intersection of religion and modern media of communication.