Remediating Religion as Everyday Practice: Postsecularism, Postcolonialism and Digital Culture

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Abstract

This essay focuses on instances of religion in everyday online practices as expressed by migrant youth (i.e., Moroccan-Dutch youth in the Netherlands). We explore, in particular, how the engagement with digital practices, such as participation in social network sites like Hyves and Facebook and online discussion forums such as www.Marokko.nl, offer specific instances of the postsecular condition that deserve further scrutiny. The digital realm offers, in fact, medium-specific modalities for creating counter-publics — locations of appropriation and contestation of the dictums imposed by so-called secular society on migrant groups and their faiths and beliefs — but also an arena for alternative affective networks, through which religion is embedded and incorporated in everyday personal needs.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTransformations of Religion and the Public Sphere: Postsecular Publics.
EditorsRosi Braidotti, Bolette Blaagaard, Tobijn de Graauw, Eva Midden
Place of PublicationBasingstoke
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Pages152-174
Number of pages23
ISBN (Print)978-1-137-40113-7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2014

Publication series

NamePalgrave politics of identity and citizenship series
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan

Keywords

  • postsecular, media, religion, postcolonialism, youth

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