Faith and Language Practices in Digital Spaces

Published by Multilingual Matters 2017

Faith and Language Practices in Digital Spaces

Edited by: Andrey Rosowsky

https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783099283

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About this book

This volume shares the results of research conducted within and across the complex nexus of language, religion and the internet. It identifies the dynamic and mobile ways religious practice and language interact online to modify, confirm, transform and consolidate linguistic resources and repertoires.

Author / Editor information

Rosowsky Andrey :

Andrey Rosowsky is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is the author of Heavenly Readings: Liturgical Literacy in a Multilingual Context (Multilingual Matters, 2008).

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From Muslim televangelist discourses and Brazilian Pentacostalist language ideologies on Facebook to the impact of Nigerian internet platforms on religious worship. From Christian digital parishes to online Hindu practices and Yiddish Wikipedia groups, this volume captures in fascinating detail the technological and discursive strategies of religious groups in our modern age as they reinvent their communities in cyberspace.

The explosion of online resources will inevitably affect religion, the master emotion, as well as its handmaiden, that is, its language. In this modest but significant volume, technology, language and religion come together as a viable and potent nexus.

Research in the Sociology of Language and Religion (SLR) has been gaining momentum over the past decade or so. This volume advances the discussion by focusing on computer and telephonic technologies. Students of religion and sociolinguistics alike will benefit from these skillful probes of the digital world in which we now seem to live and move and have our being.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
1. Faith and Language Practices in Digital Spaces: An Introduction Andrey Rosowsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1. Faith, Language and Social Media
2. Re-Parishing in Social Media: Identity-Based Virtual Faith Communities and Physical Parishes Thor Sawin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
3. Facebook: A Medium for the Language Planning of Migrant Churches Ana Souza Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Part 2. Faith, Language and Transnational Online Practices
4. Ifa, the Word and the Virtual World: A Study of the Perceptions of and Attitudes toward Ifa Religious Tradition on the Internet L. Oladipo Salami Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
5. Globalising Yoruba Taboos and their Sociocultural and Religious Values Iyabode Deborah Akande Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
6. Yiddish Wikipedia: History Revisited Tatjana Soldat-Jaffe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
Part 3. Faith, Language and Online Televangelism
7. Digital Evangelism: Varieties of English in Unexpected Places Tope Omoniyi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
8. American Muslim Televangelists as Religious Celebrities: The Changing ‘Face’ of Religious Discourse Shaimaa El Naggar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
Part 4. Faith, Language and Online Ritual
9. Online Satsang and Online Puja: Faith and Language in the Era of Globalisation Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
10. Virtual Allegiance: Online ‘Bayʿah’ Practices within a Worldwide Sufi Order Andrey Rosowsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Part 5. Afterword
11. Afterword Bernard Spolsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242

Language: English
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Keywords: Faith; Religion; Digital; Social Media; Internet; Media; Language; Technology

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Published: November 16, 2017
ISBN: 9781783099283