Overview
- Offers a wide-ranging consideration of religious app use in multiple religious and cultural contexts
- Combines insights from digital anthropology with digital religion and media studies
- Provides an anthropological perspective on important, contemporary questions of mediated culture
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Community, Contexts, and Practice
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Authority, Subjectivity, and Networks of Knowledge
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Space, Mobility, and Materiality
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About this book
This edited volume deploys digital ethnography in varied contexts to explore the cultural roles of mobile apps that focus on religious practice and communities, as well as those used for religious purposes (whether or not they were originally developed for that purpose). Combining analyses of local contexts with insights and methods from the global subfield of digital anthropology, the contributors here recognize the complex ways that in-app and on-ground worlds interact in a wide range of communities and traditions. While some of the case studies emphasize the cultural significance of use in local contexts and relationships to pre-existing knowledge networks and/or non-digital relationships of power, others explore the globalizing and democratizing influences of mobile apps as communication technologies. From Catholic confession apps to Jewish Kaddish assistance apps and Muslim halal food apps, readers will see how religious-themed mobile apps create complex sites for potential new forms of religious expression, worship, discussion, and practices.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Jacqueline H. Fewkes is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University, USA. Dr. Fewkes is also the author of the books Locating Maldivian Women’s Mosques in Global Discourses (2019), and Trade and Contemporary Society along the Silk Road: An Ethno-history of Ladakh (2008).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Anthropological Perspectives on the Religious Uses of Mobile Apps
Editors: Jacqueline H. Fewkes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26376-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26375-1Published: 21 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26378-2Published: 21 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-26376-8Published: 10 October 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 248
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Comparative Religion, Social Anthropology, Media Sociology, Science and Technology Studies, Sociology of Religion