[Commlist] CFP: Special Issue "Digital Youth and Religion"

CFP: Special Issue "Digital Youth and Religion"

Dear Colleagues,

Public and academic discourse on the online activities of youth have 
been stormy and ambivalent at times. Nevertheless, a significant body of 
work has been devoted to the grass-rooted workings of youth on new media 
platforms, albeit in adolescents’ autonomous settings, such as social 
media (e.g., Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube), online gaming, and 
interpersonal communication (e.g., instant messaging, WhatsApp). While 
past scholarship has yielded a rich offering of insight into these 
activities, there is a clear dearth of research on the online social 
worlds of religious youth. Nowadays, youth are afforded multiple venues 
of religious creeds and interpretations in unprecedented formats and 
channels. These channels enable access to youth outreach, foster 
communal participation, and shape youths’ identities, belief systems, 
and affiliation to (or from) religious institutions.

The purpose of this Special Issue is to draw together concepts, 
theories, and empirical data related to the study of three legacies: 
youth cultures, digital culture, and religious studies. We invite 
scholars that study different societies, faiths, cults, and sects from 
interdisciplinary fields (e.g., media studies, sociology, anthropology, 
semiotics, cultural studies, religious studies) to submit a proposal.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

* religious youth as media producers and participants;
* social representation of religious youth on social media;
* religious youth mobilization: constructing global and regional 
communities;
* religious youth movements’ online representation and activities;
* creating religious youth subcultures through social media;
* identity work among religious youth communities and networks;
* religious authority and youth in online informal contexts: 
bloggers/vloggers, social media moderators, online peer leaders;
* methodological challenges to and possibilities for the study of 
religious youths’ online activities;
* shaping youth’s spiritual beliefs through digital game design and 
gameplay; and
* religious youth’s deviance: adolescent engagement in religious 
transgressions and taboos.

Dr. Oren Golan
(oren.golan /at/ edtech.haifa.ac.il) <mailto:(oren.golan /at/ edtech.haifa.ac.il)>


Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com 
<http://www.mdpi.com> by registering and logging in to this website. 
Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. 
Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be 
peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the 
journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special 
issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short 
communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short 
abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for 
announcement on this website.
Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be 
under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference 
proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a 
double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant 
information for submission of manuscripts is available on the 
Instructions for Authors page. Religions is an international 
peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a 
manuscript. Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good 
English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to 
publication or during author revisions.

No-APC: No article processing charge will be requested from authors at 
any stage of the publication process.

Keywords

* religious youth
* religious cultural groups
* youth subcultures
* religious authority
* religious identity
* online identities
* social media
* digital religion
* gaming culture


Special Issue Editor:

Dr. Oren Golan ((oren.golan /at/ edtech.haifa.ac.il) 
<mailto:(oren.golan /at/ edtech.haifa.ac.il)>)
Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, Abba Khoushy Ave 199, Haifa, 
3498838, Israel


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