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Performing Atheist Selves in Digital Publics

U.S. Women and Non-Religious Identity Online

Evelina Lundmark (Agder University, Norway)

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English
Routledge
26 August 2024
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.
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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
Weight:   353g
ISBN:   9781032034645
ISBN 10:   1032034645
Series:   Routledge Studies in Religion and Digital Culture
Pages:   180
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

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