[Air-L] Book Announcement - Blogging My Religion

[Giulia Evolvi]

Dear All,

I am very pleased to announce the publication of my book:

Blogging my Religion: Secular, Muslim, and Catholic Media Spaces in Europe
Giulia Evolvi

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

Best Regards,

Giulia Evolvi, Dr

Research Associate

Ruhr University Bochum

giulia.evolvi at rub.de

@giuliaevolvi

www.giuliaevolvi.com