Religion and the media turn: A review essay

Engelke, Matthew

doi:10.1111/j.1548-1425.2010.01261.x

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“…There is now a substantial body of work suggesting that religiosity cannot be abstracted from the mediations that give it a manifest form. To understand religion as mediation helps us to recognize that conversely the sensual and material attributes of media are constitutive elements in shaping participants' dispositions to believe in and live a given religious traditions (Engelke 2010;Hirschkind and Larkin 2008;Keane 2008). Thus, a religious text not only calls for a contextualized analysis of its message and reception, but also for an understanding how the texture and material properties of the medium involves the senses and intellect of its transmitters in ways that impact upon their attitude towards religion.…”

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Texting Islam: Text messages and religiosity among young Pakistanis

Rollier

2010

Contemporary South Asia

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Among the urban Pakistani youth, SMS texts have become of critical importance in mediating religious and aesthetic sensations in unexpected domains of everyday life. Although grounded in a distinct valuation of the moral bearing of language upon individuals, texting religious messages is not simply a new way of pursuing a 'traditional' form of sociality. Texting reactivates religious texts with an unprecedented immediacy, and facilitates the expression of playfulness and visceral matters, empathy, humour and admonitions to embrace religious righteousness. This entanglement of discordant aspirations leads to a greater visibility of Islam, but does not suggest the emergence of a deliberative space. For this mediation is also about instigating affective responses that can unsettle the moral consistency advocated in religious SMSs. I argue that this ludic gesture orientated towards the restoration of Islamic morality introduces immediacy and circulation as critical parameters in the appreciation of authentic and effectual Islamic knowledge.

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Texting Islam: Text messages and religiosity among young Pakistanis

Rollier

2010

Contemporary South Asia

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“…In exploring this issue, I privilege a theory of mediation, which sees media technologies and social relationships as mutually constituted (Couldry 2000(Couldry , 2008(Couldry , 2012Madianou and Miller 2012;Silverstone 2005;Wajcman 2002). I also draw from studies that focus on the idea of religion as mediation, and 'concentrate on the significance of the processes of mediation and mediatization without and outside of which no religion would be able to manifest or reveal itself in the first place' (de Vries 2001, in Engelke 2010.…”

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The Morality of Premarital Romances

Costa¹

2016

Middle East J Cult Commun

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This article explores how young women use social media to experience premarital romances in Mardin, a medium-sized town in southeast Turkey. It argues that love stories mediated by social media are integral to the enactment of a gendered moral self. The ethnographic data presented here indeed highlight how premarital romances and Muslim morality are not two contradictory and opposing ideals, but rather two constitutive aspects of the same mediated practices. Secrecy, lack of physical co-presence and the performance of a virtuous self in public and semi-public online spaces are common elements of the new romances. Yet social norms ruling the use of the online platforms to start and live premarital relationships are not shared by everybody, and different understandings of religion, morality and modernity have generated different and contrasting expectations. The article aims to contribute not only to the study of the effects of social media on interpersonal relations, but also to the understanding of how, in Muslim societies, moral norms are entangled with everyday practices mediated by digital media.

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“…Le « tournant médiatique » (Engelke, 2010) a en effet renouvelé l'étude de la religion. Dans le même temps, il a imprimé une direction dans l'étude tant de la production locale que de l'utilisation des médias globalisés et des technologies médiatiques.…”

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