Digital Multiculturalism in the Netherlands: Religious, Ethnic and Gender Positioning by Moroccan-Dutch Youth

Leurs, Koen; Midden, Eva; Ponzanesi, Sandra

doi:10.1163/18785417-00201008

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“…As he admits, laughingly, 'If my status update gets less than 30 likes, I delete it!' This seems to affirm social media as a space for building networks of solidarity amongst marginalised groups (Leurs et al 2012).…”

Section: Other-religious Minority Tacticsmentioning

confidence: 87%

“When You Live Here, That’s What You Get”: Other-, Ex-, and Non-Religious Outsiders in the Norwegian Bible Belt

Fisher-Høyrem

Herbert

2019

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This article presents data from our investigations in Kristiansand, the largest city in Southern Norway, an area sometimes called Norway’s ‘Bible belt’. We investigate how social media is reshaping social relations in the city, looking especially at how social order is generated, reinforced, and challenged on social media platforms. Drawing on the figurational sociology of Norbert Elias, as well as findings from research conducted among Muslim immigrants in Scandinavian cities and their response to what they perceive as the dominant media frame, we focus this article on a less visible group of outsiders in the local social figuration: young ex- and non-religious persons. The mediated and enacted performances of this loosely defined group and their interactions with more influential others provide a case study in how non-religious identities and networked communities are construed not (only) based on explicit rejection of religion but also in negotiation with a social order that happens to carry locally specific ‘religious’ overtones. With respect to the mediatization of religion we extend empirical investigation of the theory to social media, arguing that what while religious content is shaped by social media forms, in cases where religious identifiers already convey prestige in local social networks, social media may increase the influence of these networks, thus deepening processes of social inclusion for those in dominant groups and the exclusion of outsiders. In this way, platforms which are in principle open and in practice provide space for minorities to self-organise, also routinely reinforce existing power relations.

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Section: Other-religious Minority Tacticsmentioning

confidence: 87%

“When You Live Here, That’s What You Get”: Other-, Ex-, and Non-Religious Outsiders in the Norwegian Bible Belt

Fisher-Høyrem

Herbert

2019

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“…The remarks informants made resonate her argument: participating in online forums, Moroccan-Dutch girls turn to message boards to engage with topics such as health, meeting new friends, intimacy, romantic relationships, and sexuality (Leurs, Midden, and Ponzanesi, 2012). Girls report to experience a greater sense of freedom to discuss the sometimes-stringent socialcultural codes of socialization of their parents and wider community.…”

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confidence: 87%

Transformations of Religion and the Public Sphere

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Series Editors: Varun Uberoi, Brunel University, UK; Nasar Meer, University of Strathclyde, UK; and Tariq Modood, University of Bristol, UK The politics of identity and citizenship has assumed increasing importance as our polities have become significantly more culturally, ethnically and religiously diverse. Different types of scholars, including philosophers, sociologists, political scientists, and historians make contributions to this field and this series showcases a variety of innovative contributions to it. Focusing on a range of different countries, and utilizing the insights of different disciplines, the series helps to illuminate an increasingly controversial area of research, and titles in it will be of interest to a number of audiences including scholars, students, and other interested individuals.

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“…They genuinely do appreciate the efforts the Belgian Catholic Church and local parishes have made to get through these last couple of months, but they all long for 'normal times'. Not like other religious groups and communities who are already well trained and experienced in practicing religion online, such as for instance migrant or diasporic faith communities-see, among others, Leurs et al (2012) and Vekemans (2019)-or the faithful who already made use of the internet before the outbreak of the pandemic-see for example Evolvi (2018) and Campbell (2020a)-the Belgian Catholic Church and its believers had very limited experience with practicing religion in the online sphere. Therefore, this sudden shift to the online world was not planned.…”

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Practicing Religion during a Pandemic: On Religious Routines, Embodiment, and Performativity

Huygens

2021

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This article aims to investigate how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the religious lifestyles of practicing female Roman Catholics in Belgium. I explore how these Catholic believers manage to stay in touch with their faith and faith community in times of crisis when physical and real-life contact is very limited. In this article, I draw on in-depth interviews conducted via Zoom, carried out in the framework of my current ethnographic research project. The empirical results show how Catholic women grappled with the multiple lockdowns during the last year and a half, and how the lockdowns led to severe changes in their religious practices and routines. Many believers had to find alternative possibilities and modalities in order to preserve continuity with their religious pre-COVID-19 lives. Throughout the article, I intend to map their practices and strategies. I will argue that inquiring how religion and religious practices are performed during a pandemic can contribute to the flourishing and timely scholarship on digital and online religion and it also provides us with further insights in the performativity, materiality, and embodiment of religion.

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Digital Multiculturalism in the Netherlands: Religious, Ethnic and Gender Positioning by Moroccan-Dutch Youth

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“When You Live Here, That’s What You Get”: Other-, Ex-, and Non-Religious Outsiders in the Norwegian Bible Belt

“When You Live Here, That’s What You Get”: Other-, Ex-, and Non-Religious Outsiders in the Norwegian Bible Belt

Transformations of Religion and the Public Sphere

Practicing Religion during a Pandemic: On Religious Routines, Embodiment, and Performativity

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