Cyber Muslims: Mapping Islamic Digital Media in the Internet Age

ISBN-13: 9781350233690 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 344 str.

USA) Robert Rozehnal (Lehigh University

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Through an array of detailed case studies, this book explores the vibrant digital expressions of diverse groups of Muslim cybernauts: religious clerics and Sufis, feminists and fashionistas, artists and activists, hajj pilgrims and social media influencers. These stories span a vast cultural and geographic landscape—from Indonesia, Iran, and the Arab Middle East to North America. These granular case studies contextualize cyber Islam within broader social trends: racism and Islamophobia, gender dynamics, celebrity culture, identity politics, and the shifting terrain of contemporary religious piety and practice. The book’s authors examine an expansive range of digital multimedia technologies as primary “texts.” These include websites, podcasts, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube channels, online magazines and discussion forums, and religious apps. The contributors also draw on a range of methodological and theoretical models from multiple academic disciplines, including communication and media studies, anthropology, history, global studies, religious studies, and Islamic studies.

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List of Illustrations List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Mapping Islamic Digital Media in the Internet Age, Robert Rozehnal (Lehigh University, USA) Part I: Authority and Authenticity 1. The Net Imam Effect: Digital Contestation of #Islam and Religious Authority, Gary R. Bunt (University of Wales-Trinity Saint David, UK) 2. Hybrid Imams: Young Muslims and Religious Authority on Social Media, Sana Patel 3. Mediating Authority: A Sufi Shaykh in Multiple Media, Ismail Fajrie Alatas (New York University, USA) Part II: Community and Identity 4. Stream If You Want: See Something, Say Something and the Humanizing Potential of Digital Islam, Caleb Elfenbein, Grinnell College, USA 5. Latinx Muslim Digital Landscapes: Locating Networks and Cultural Practices, Harold Morales (Morgan State University, USA) and Madelina Nuñez (Purdue University, USA) 6. Revisiting Digital Islamic Feminism: Multiple Resistances, Identities, and Online Communities, Sahar Khamis (University of Maryland, College Park, USA) 7. #MuslimGirlWoke: A Muslim Lifestyle Website Challenges Intersectional Oppression, Kristin M. Peterson (Boston College, USA) Part III: Piety and Performance 8. The Digital Niqabosphere as a Hypermediated Third Space, Anna Piela (Northwestern University, USA) 9. Islam as Meditation: Mindfulness Apps for Muslims in the Digital Spiritual Marketplace, Megan Adamson Sijapati, (Gettysburg College, USA) 10. From Mecca With Love: Muslim Religious Apps and the Centering of Mecca, Andrea Stanton (University of Denver, USA) 11. Seeing a Global Islam?: Eid al-Adha on Instagram, Rosemary Pennington (Miami University, USA) Part IV: Visual and Cultural (Re)presentation 12. Defining Islamic Art: Practices and Digital Reconfigurations, Hussein Rashid (Independent Scholar, USA) 13.Dousing the Flame: The Political Work of Religious Satire in Contemporary Indonesia, James B. Hoesterey (Emory University, USA) 14. The Instagram Cleric: History, Technicity, and Shii Iranian Jurists in the Age of Social Media, Babak Rahimi, (University of California-San Diego, USA) 15. Muslims Between the Blackmail of Transparency and the Right to Opacity, Nabil Echchaibi (University of Colorado-Boulder, USA) Notes Bibliography Index