The Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture has recently launched a new resource website featuring an extensive bibliography, “scholar’s index,” blog, and newsfeed: The Network is designed for scholars, students and those interested in exploring topics and questions emerging at the intersections of religion, the internet and new, social and mobile media. The [...]
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February 9th, 2011
The road to Tahrir
posted by Charles Hirschkind
While the uprising in Egypt caught most observers of the Middle East off guard, it did not come out of the blue. The seeds of this spectacular mobilization had been sown as far back as the early 2000s and had been carefully cultivated by activists from across the political spectrum, many of these working online via Facebook, twitter, and within the Egyptian blogosphere. Working within these media, activists began to forge a new political language, one that cut across the institutional barriers that had until then polarized Egypt’s political terrain, between more Islamicly-oriented currents (most prominent among them, the Muslim Brotherhood) and secular-liberal ones.
July 14th, 2010
Holocaust survivor dances, controversy ensues
posted by Amanda Kaplan“Dancing Auschwitz” has reappeared on the internet not a year after its release in December of 2009, catching the attention of The Atlantic and New York Magazine for starters. Unfortunately, it “has resurfaced at the center of a trans-Atlantic controversy,” Haaretz reports.
June 23rd, 2010
Twitter and the death penalty
posted by Jake Alter
May 27th, 2010
Religion gone global: An interview with Reza Aslan
posted by Nathan Schneider
How many scholars of religions also run a film company? And how many members of the Council on Foreign Relations can claim an MFA in fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop? In all likelihood, just one. Reza Aslan, whose bestselling books No god but God and Beyond Fundamentalism have established him as a sought-after expert on Islam and the role of religion in the contemporary world, is also a contributing editor at The Daily Beast and chief creative officer of BoomGen, a company that helps to develop films from or about the Middle East. He earned his Ph.D. in the sociology of religions at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and currently teaches creative writing at the University’s Riverside campus.
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