Performing atheist selves in digital publics : U.S. women and non-religious identity online / Evelina Lundmark.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

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"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Print version: Lundmark, Evelina. Performing atheist selves in digital publics Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023

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August 07, 2024

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