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[Commlist] Special Issue on ‘Digital Youth and Religion’

Tue May 11 08:06:00 GMT 2021




*Reminder: CFP - Special Issue on ‘Digital Youth and Religion’ - Abstracts Due: May 18, 2021*

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.

If you are interested, please send a title and abstract to the Guest Editor by email before *18 May 2021*. Accepted abstracts will be notified and duly announced as Planned Papers.

No payment from the authors will be required.

*For the full call for papers info see:*https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/youth_religion <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/youth_religion>

*For further inquiries and applications,*contact: (oren.golan /at/ edtech.haifa.ac.il) <mailto:(oren.golan /at/ edtech.haifa.ac.il)>

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