God’s Influencers: How Social Media Users Shape Religion and Pious Self-Fashioning
Drawing on the contributions presented in the special issue “God’s Influencers: How Social Media Users Shape Religion and Pious Self-Fashioning”, this introduction explores resonances and dissonances between the six articles: First, I reconsider the online/offline connection in relation to the relig...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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2024
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Journal of religion, media and digital culture
Année: 2024, Volume: 13, Numéro: 2, Pages: 143-172 |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
digital materiality
B Orthopraxy B Digital Religion B Réseaux sociaux B digital-religious culture |
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| Résumé: | Drawing on the contributions presented in the special issue “God’s Influencers: How Social Media Users Shape Religion and Pious Self-Fashioning”, this introduction explores resonances and dissonances between the six articles: First, I reconsider the online/offline connection in relation to the religious actors examined. Then, I articulate a post techno-utopian vision of religion online, identifying digital media as a social space where inequalities, prejudices and power structures offline can be both reinforced and challenged. Third, I shed light on the subjective turn in the way online religious actors understand and impart “authenticity”, a heatedly debated concept in the context of both religion and social media. Fourth, I present some of the communicative strategies that the religious social media users examined in this special issue employ. And, finally, I conclude by sketching future research directions in the study of how social media users shape religion and pious self-fashioning. |
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| ISSN: | 2165-9214 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion, media and digital culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/21659214-bja10140 |