Performing Atheist Selves in Digital Publics - U.S. Women and Non-Religious Identity Online

This book considers how the non-religious self is performed publicly online, and how digital culture and technology shapes this process. Building on a YouTube case study with women vloggers, it presents unique empirical data on non-organized atheism in the United States.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: US Women and Non-Religious Identity Online 1. Atheist Identity in the United States: Civil Religion and Christian Privilege 2. New Atheist Discourse and Hyper Rationality: Authority, Femininity, Atheism 3. Precarious Selves: Digital Media and Exacerbated Vulnerabilities 4. Third Spaces: Evoking Resonance 5. Counter Publics: Resistance Through Dissonance Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Evelina Lundmark currently holds a postdoctoral position at Agder University in Norway. She has a PhD in the Sociology of Religion from Uppsala University, Sweden.

Zusammenfassung

This book considers how the non-religious self is performed publicly online, and how digital culture and technology shapes this process. Building on a YouTube case study with women vloggers, it presents unique empirical data on non-organized atheism in the United States.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Evelina Lundmark
• Verlag: Taylor and Francis
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 26.08.2024
• EAN: 9781032034645
• ISBN: 978-1-032-03464-5
• Seiten: 180
• Gewicht: 360 g
• Serie: Routledge Studies in Religion and Digital Culture
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Sonstiges; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Religion: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie; RELIGION / Atheism, RELIGION / Agnosticism, Agnosticism and atheism, Agnosticism & Atheism