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1 online resource (191 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Religion and Digital Culture Ser |
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Routledge Studies in Religion and Digital Culture Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- About the Author -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: U.S. Women and Non-Religious Identity Online -- Exploring Atheist Self-performances in Tension -- Relational Selfhood and Identity Performance -- Are Women More Religious? -- Atheism in the US -- YouTube as a Space of Augmented Visibility -- The Study of Atheism and Non-religion in Digital Spaces -- On the Matter of Publicness: A Brief Note on Ethics -- The Study at Hand: A Brief Note on Method and Data -- Book Outline -- Notes -- References |
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1. Atheist Identity in the US: Civil Religion and Christian Privilege -- Moral Minority: Negotiating Atheist Stereotypes -- Negotiating Atheist Anger: On the Outside Looking In -- Social Dissonance: Despair, Shame, and Relief -- Space to Question the Foundations: Christianity as Norm -- What Even Is America"": Ostracization, Bullying, and Abuse -- Actually Reading the Bible: Opening Up (Mental) Space -- Science and Rationality as Ways into Atheism -- Born Again Atheist?: Expectations on (De)Conversion Narratives -- Evangelical Hegemony and (Dis)Proof of Gods Existence |
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Calling Yourself a Christian Don't Make You One"": How Vloggers Authority Is Being Undermined -- Identifying as Minority, Loosing Subscribers -- Finding Resonance: Atheist Community Online -- Authentic Self-Expression and Perceived Stigma -- Atheist Activism? -- Conclusion: Confronting and Reinforcing Evangelical Hegemony -- Summary -- Notes -- References -- 2. New Atheist Discourse and Hyper Rationality: Authority, Femininity, Atheism -- Tensions Within: (White) Women in Public -- Transgression: Women in Public -- Visceral Reactions: Reinserting Hierarchy through the Public/Private Divide |
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Banal Sexism and Objectification: Spectacles for Public Consumption -- Gendered Dissonance: Silencing Strategies -- Feminism and the Atheist Movement -- Black Atheist Women and Exacerbated Vulnerabilities -- Black Atheists Unite"": Conversations about Race -- Black Women and the Oppositional Gaze: Tensions with Whiteness, Masculinity, and Publicness -- Atheisms, the Irrationalities of Nuance, and Hysteria -- Anti-feminist Sentiments -- That ""Coherence-building Extra-estrogen Vibe -- Better than You?: Unbuffering Atheist Identity -- Ambivalently Atheist |
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Conclusion: Preaching Respect, Asserting Atheist Identity, and Coexistence -- Summary -- Notes -- References -- 3. Precarious Selves: Digital Media and Exacerbated Vulnerabilities -- The Cultivation of the Self in Relation -- The Institutionalization of YouTube: Commercial Space -- Self-branding Strategies -- Visible or Invisible: Tensions around Self-branding -- Broadcast Yourself: Ambivalent Publics and the Collapse of the Private -- Private Life as Public Performance -- The Aesthetics of Authenticity, and the Format of the Vlog -- Women's Work and New Forms of Sociability |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Linking Practices and Narrative Augmentations: Shout Outs, Annotations, and Memes |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000842920 |
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1000842924 |
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