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 a rigorous discussion of the complex intersections of the digital and religion, demonstrating how third spaces of religion stand out by virtue of their in-betweenness. They exist between private and public, between institution and individual, between authority and individual autonomy, between large media framings and individual "pro-sumption, " and between local and translocal. Including probing analysis of how Muslim, Catholic, and Neo-Pagan identities are cultivated and developed online, case studies reflect on the creative outcomes of this condition of in-betweenness and the emergence of other places of religious and spiritual meaning.

Blending theoretical analysis with grounded empirical research, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of contemporary religion, media and religion, sociology of religion, religion, and popular culture.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2023

ISBN

9781000841411

Edition

Topic

Theology & Religion

Subtopic

Religion

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Media Theory and the Third Spaces of Digital Religion
2. Neda: Religious Manifestations of a Digital Martyr
3. Identity, Confession, and Performance in PostSecret
4. Queer Muslim Identity in the Third Space of Tumblr
5. The Sacred Tech: Identity, Aesthetics, and Practice in Neo-Pagan Digital Spaces
6. Facebook as a Third Space of Digital Catholicism: The “Catholic” in Circulation and Reconstruction
7. Rewriting Religion: How LGBTQ Individuals are Finding a Place of Belonging Online
Index