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This volume offers unique insights into the mutually constitutive nature of social media practices and religious change. Part 1 examines how social media operate in conjunction with mass media in the construction of discourses of religion and spirituality. It includes: a longitudinal study of British news media coverage of Christianity, secularism and religious diversity (Knott et al.); an analysis of responses to two documentaries 'The Monastery' and 'The Convent' (Thomas); an evaluation of theories of the sacred in studies of religion and media within the 'strong program' in cultural sociology in the US (Lynch); and a study of the consequences of mass and social media synergies for public perceptions of Islam in the Netherlands (Herbert). Part 2 examines the role of social media in the construction of contemporary martyrs and media celebrities (e.g., Michael Jackson) using mixed and mobile methods to analyse fan sites (Bennett & Campbell) and jihadi websites and YouTube (Nauta). Part 3 examines how certain bounded religious communities negotiate the challenges of social media: Judaism in Second Life (Abrams & Baker); Bah'ai regulation of web use among members (Campbell & Fulton); YouTube evangelists (Pihlaja); and public expressions of bereavement (Greenhill & Fletcher). The book provides theoretically informed empirical case studies and presents an intriguing, complex picture of the aesthetic and ethical, demographic and discursive aspects of new spaces of communication and their implications for religious institutions, beliefs and practices.

Mass media --- Mass media in religion. --- Social media. --- Religion. --- Change --- Médias --- Médias dans la religion --- Médias sociaux --- Religion --- Changement social --- Religious aspects. --- Aspect religieux --- Mass media in religion --- Social media --- Religious aspects --- Change -- Religious aspects. --- Mass media -- Religious aspects. --- Philosophy & Religion --- Religion - General --- 251*23 --- Verkondiging en moderne media: radio; TV; pers --- 251*23 Verkondiging en moderne media: radio; TV; pers --- Médias --- Médias dans la religion --- Médias sociaux --- User-generated media --- Communication --- User-generated content --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Change (in religion, folklore, etc.) --- Moral and religious aspects --- Mass media - Religious aspects --- Change - Religious aspects --- Mass Media. --- Public Sphere. --- Religious Authority. --- Social Media. --- Spirituality.