Cyber muslims: mapping Islamic digital media in the internet age
London et al.:
Bloomsbury Academic
(2022), xv, 327 pp., figures, tables, bibliogr. p.279-314, index
ISBN 978-1-350-23370-6 (pbk); 978-1-350-23369-0 (hbk); 978-1-350-23372-0 (pdf)
"Providing detailed case studies, this book explores the vibrant digital expressions of diverse groups of Muslim cybernauts: religious clerics and Sufi mystics, feminists and fashionistas, artists and activists, Hajj pilgrims and celebrities. Together, these stories span a vast cultural and geographic landscape, including Indonesia, Iran, the Middle East, and the United States. These case studies are contextualized within the backdrop of broader social trends, including racism and Islamophobia, gender dynamics, celebrity culture, identity politics, and the shifting dynamics of contemporary religious piety and practice. Authors examine a wide-range of digital multimedia technologies as primary ''texts." These include websites, podcasts, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube channels, online magazines and discussion forums, and religious apps." (Publisher)
Contents
Introduction: Mapping Islamic Digital Media in the Internet Age / Robert Rozehnal, 1
I. AUTHORITY AND AUTHENTICITY
1 The Net Imam Effect: Digital Contestations of #Islam and Religious Authority / Gary R. Bunt, 19
2 Hybrid Imams: Young Muslims and Religious Authority on Social Media / Sana Patel, 34
3 Mediating Authority: A Sufi Shaykh in Multiple Media / Ismail Fajrie Alatas, 51
II. COMMUNITY AND IDENTITY
4 Stream If You Want: See Something, Say Something and the Humanizing Potential of Digital Islam / Caleb Elfenbein, 69
5 Latinx Muslim Digital Landscapes: Locating Networks and Cultural Practices / Madelina Nuñez and Harold D. Morales, 84
6 Revisiting Digital Islamic Feminism: Multiple Resistances, Identities, and Online Communities / Sahar Khamis, 100
7 #MuslimGirlWoke: A Muslim Lifestyle Website Challenges Intersectional Oppression / Kristin M. Peterson, 114
III. PIETY AND PERFORMANCE
8 The Digital Niqabosphere as a Hypermediated Third Space / Anna Piela, 131
9 Islamic Meditation: Mindfulness Apps for Muslims in the Digital Spiritual Marketplace / Megan Adamson Sijapati, 145
10 From Mecca with Love: Muslim Religious Apps and the Centering of Sacred Geography / Andrea Stanton, 161
11 Seeing a Global Islam? Eid al-Adha on Instagram / Rosemary Pennington, 176
IV. VISUAL AND CULTURAL (RE)PRESENTATION
12 Defining Islamic Art: Practices and Digital Reconfigurations / Hussein Rashid, 191
13 Dousing the Flame: The Political Work of Religious Satire in Contemporary Indonesia / James B. Hoesterey, 203
14 The Instagram Cleric: History, Technicity, and Shii Iranian Jurists in the Age of Social Media / Babak Rahimi, 220
15 Muslims between Transparency and Opacity / Nabil Echchaibi, 237
I. AUTHORITY AND AUTHENTICITY
1 The Net Imam Effect: Digital Contestations of #Islam and Religious Authority / Gary R. Bunt, 19
2 Hybrid Imams: Young Muslims and Religious Authority on Social Media / Sana Patel, 34
3 Mediating Authority: A Sufi Shaykh in Multiple Media / Ismail Fajrie Alatas, 51
II. COMMUNITY AND IDENTITY
4 Stream If You Want: See Something, Say Something and the Humanizing Potential of Digital Islam / Caleb Elfenbein, 69
5 Latinx Muslim Digital Landscapes: Locating Networks and Cultural Practices / Madelina Nuñez and Harold D. Morales, 84
6 Revisiting Digital Islamic Feminism: Multiple Resistances, Identities, and Online Communities / Sahar Khamis, 100
7 #MuslimGirlWoke: A Muslim Lifestyle Website Challenges Intersectional Oppression / Kristin M. Peterson, 114
III. PIETY AND PERFORMANCE
8 The Digital Niqabosphere as a Hypermediated Third Space / Anna Piela, 131
9 Islamic Meditation: Mindfulness Apps for Muslims in the Digital Spiritual Marketplace / Megan Adamson Sijapati, 145
10 From Mecca with Love: Muslim Religious Apps and the Centering of Sacred Geography / Andrea Stanton, 161
11 Seeing a Global Islam? Eid al-Adha on Instagram / Rosemary Pennington, 176
IV. VISUAL AND CULTURAL (RE)PRESENTATION
12 Defining Islamic Art: Practices and Digital Reconfigurations / Hussein Rashid, 191
13 Dousing the Flame: The Political Work of Religious Satire in Contemporary Indonesia / James B. Hoesterey, 203
14 The Instagram Cleric: History, Technicity, and Shii Iranian Jurists in the Age of Social Media / Babak Rahimi, 220
15 Muslims between Transparency and Opacity / Nabil Echchaibi, 237
