Third Spaces of Digital Religion

<p>This exciting volume explores how religious meaning is generated and performed in our present digital media ecosystem. It uses the spatial metaphor of a third space to visualize the mobility of everyday religion and to explore the dynamic ways in which contemporary subjects imagine produce and navigate new religious and spiritual places.</p><p>Comprised of seven original essays this book provides a rigorous discussion of the complex intersections of the digital and religion demonstrating how third spaces of religion stand out by virtue of their in-betweenness. They exist between private and public between institution and individual between authority and individual autonomy between large media framings and individual pro-sumption and between local and translocal. Including probing analysis of how Muslim Catholic and Neo-Pagan identities are cultivated and developed online case studies reflect on the creative outcomes of this condition of in-betweenness and the emergence of other places of religious and spiritual meaning.</p><p>Blending theoretical analysis with grounded empirical research this book is essential reading for students and scholars of contemporary religion media and religion sociology of religion religion and popular culture.</p>