[ecrea] Book Announcement - Blogging My Religion

New book:

*Blogging my Religion: Secular, Muslim, and Catholic Media Spaces in Europe*
Giulia Evolvi
www.giuliaevolvi.com

https://www.routledge.com/Blogging-My-Religion-Secular-Muslim-and-Catholic-Media-Spaces-in-Europe/Evolvi/p/book/9781138562110

_Summary_

Religion in Europe is currently undergoing changes that are 
reconfiguring physical and virtual spaces of practice and belief, and 
these changes need to be understood with regards to the proliferation of 
digital media discourses. This book explores religious change in Europe 
through a comparative approach that analyzes Atheist, Catholic, and 
Muslim blogs as spaces for articulating narratives about religion that 
symbolically challenge the power of religious institutions.

The book adds theoretical complexity to the study of religion and 
digital media with the concept of hypermediated religious spaces. The 
theory of hypermediation helps to critically discuss the theory of 
secularization and to contextualize religious change as the result of 
multiple entangled phenomena. It considers religion as being connected 
with secular and post-secular spaces, and media as embedding material 
forms, institutions, and technologies. A spatial perspective 
contextualizes hypermediated religious spaces as existing at the 
interstice of alternative and mainstream, private and public, imaginary 
and real venues.

By offering the innovative perspective of hypermediated religious 
spaces, this book will be of significant interest to scholars of 
religious studies, the sociology of religion, and digital media.

With code HUM19 you can get a 20% discount


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