Religious Talk Online - The Evangelical Discourse of Muslims, Christians, and Atheists

Original research that explains how religious conflict is played out on social media.

List of contents

1. Introduction: religious interaction online; 2. Finding and analysing religious interaction; 3. Conflicts; 4. Stories and storylines; 5. Themes; 6. Conclusion: Evangelical outreach - arguing, appealing, and consoling.

About the author

Stephen Pihlaja is Reader in Stylistics at Newman University, Birmingham, UK, where he teaches and researches language use around religious interaction. Originally from Chicago, he has previously lived and taught in Japan and Malaysia.

Summary

In the online world, people argue about anything and everything - religion is no exception. This book explains how and why religious conflict occurs online and how people of different religious beliefs interact on social media. It will appeal to researchers and students in sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, particularly those working on social media and religious language.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Pihlaja, Pihlaja Stephen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781107157415
• ISBN: 978-1-107-15741-5
• No. of pages: 194
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Discourse Analysis, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Interfaith relations, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics