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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Evelina Lundmark
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.08.2024
• EAN: 9781032034645
• ISBN: 978-1-032-03464-5
• No. of pages: 180
• Weight: 360 g
• Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Digital Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; RELIGION / Atheism, RELIGION / Agnosticism, Agnosticism and atheism, Agnosticism & Atheism