Performing Atheist Selves in Digital Publics

U.S. Women and Non-Religious Identity Online
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-02167-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Religion and Digital Culture

This book considers how the non-religious self is performed publicly online, and how digital culture and technology shapes this process. Building on a YouTube case study with women vloggers, it presents unique empirical data on non-organized atheism in the United States. Lundmark suggests that the atheist self as performed online exists in tension between a perception of atheism as sinful and amoral in relation to hegemonical Christianity in the U.S., and the hyperrational, male-centered discourse that has characterized the atheist movement. She argues that women atheist vloggers co-effect third spaces of emotive resonance that enable a precarious counterpublicness of performing atheist visibility. The volume offers a valuable contribution to the discussion of how the public, the private, and areas in-between are understood within digital religion, and opens up new space for engaging with the increased visibility of atheist identity in a mediatized society.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lundmark, Evelina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Agnostizismus, Atheismus, Säkularer Humanismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: US Women and Non-Religious Identity Online 1. Atheist Identity in the United States: Civil Religion and Christian Privilege 2. New Atheist Discourse and Hyper Rationality: Authority, Femininity, Atheism 3. Precarious Selves: Digital Media and Exacerbated Vulnerabilities 4. Third Spaces: Evoking Resonance 5. Counter Publics: Resistance Through Dissonance Index

Über Autor(innen)

Evelina Lundmark currently holds a postdoctoral position at Agder University in Norway. She has a PhD in the Sociology of Religion from Uppsala University, Sweden.