Khaled Abou El Fadl and Amina Wadud’s (re)politicisation of the mosque and employment of social media as a means of shaping religious identity based on values of progressive Islam

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 309-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofia Tsourlaki
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Progressive Islam

scholarly journals @Indonesiatanpafeminis.id as a Challenge of Feminist Movement in Virtual Space

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eni Maryani ◽  
Preciosa Alnashava Janitra ◽  
Reksa Anggia Ratmita
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Nahdlatul Ulama ◽  
Media Platform ◽  
Dynamic Relationships

The fast-growing social media in Indonesia has opened up opportunities for spreading feminist ideas to a wider and more diverse audience. Various social media accounts especially Instagram that focus on gender advocacy and feminism such as @indonesiafeminis, @lawanpatriarki, and @feminismanis have developed in Indonesia. However, the development of the social media platform also presents groups that oppose feminists. One of the accounts of women’s groups that oppose feminists is @indonesiatanpafeminis.id (@indonesiawithoutfeminist.id). The research objectives are namely to analyze the diversity of issues and reveal the discourse contestation that developed in the @indonesiatanpafeminis.id, and dynamic relationships on the online and offline spaces between groups of feminists and anti-feminists or the other interest. This research employed the digital ethnography method that utilized observation, interview, and literature study as data collection techniques. This study found that the online conversations at @indonesiatanpafeminis.id revealed misconceptions on feminism from a group of women with a religious identity. Furthermore, the conversation also tends to strengthen patriarchal values with religious arguments that are gender-biased. However, the @indonesiatanpafeminis.id serves as a public space for open debates and education on feminist issues. The anti-feminist group behind the @indonesiatanpafeminis.id are women who identify themselves in a certain Muslim circle that has political, cultural, and religious agendas. One of the agendas is to influence the public to reject the Sexual Violence Eradication Bill. This study also noted the Muslim supporters of anti-feminism in Indonesia are less popular compared to progressive religious-based Muslim women organizations such as Aisyiyah (Muhammadiyah), Muslimat NU (Nahdlatul Ulama), and Rahima (Center for Education and Information on Islam and Women’s Rights). The study also evokes discussion on how the feminist and anti-feminist discourses can be utilized to criticize and develop the women’s movement or feminism in a multicultural context.

scholarly journals SOCIAL MEDIA AND RELIGIOUS IDENTITY CHANGE AMONG MUSLIM ARAB WOMEN IN ISRAEL

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aysha Agbarya ◽  
Nicholas John
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Arab Women ◽  
Identity Change ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Supportive Environment ◽  
Use Of Social Media

This study investigates the interface between increased religiousity among Muslim Arab women in Israel, and their social media use. To understand their use of social media as part of a profound change in social identity, fifteen semi-structured interviews were conducted with Muslim women aged 19-26 who are, or have been, social media users, who live in Israel, and who have become significantly more religious than they had previously been. The findings show two different logics of social media use in times of religious identity change. The first includes reconstructing social media ties to be an alternative, supportive environment, while the second relates to decision making based on the religious rules newly adopted by respondents. Two main social practices were related to the second kind of social media use: managing (and often removing) ties with male users, which raised profound personal dilemmas, and removing digital traces by deleting past posts and photos. Such decisions were made to obey religious rules rather than to gratify personal needs. Social media accompany and assist in the identity change, starting from its very beginnings, and throughout the process. While previous research shows that SNS tie management is an essential part of our identity, our findings show the religious identity of women to be a distinct case where religious rules guide behaviour and decision making. The very fact that these acts and dilemmas are visible to us is a result of paying special attention to identities in flux.

Measuring Tribal ‘Otherness’

2019 ◽  
pp. 106-166
Author(s):  
Angma Dey Jhala
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Population Numbers

The chapter examines the role of enumerative data in defining identity and ethnicity during the late colonial period. Focussing on two surveys of the CHT from 1876 and 1909 by W.W. Hunter and R.H. Sneyd Hutchinson respectively, it investigates how the census created standardized labels, relating to religion, tribe, and caste, which often undermined the region’s porous border-crossing, interethnic, and interreligious history. It reveals the inherent contradictions, vagueness of definitions, and, at times, gross inaccuracies within official bureaucratic documentation. Further, it notes how colonial demographic categories would influence later nationalist determinations of cultural and religious identity based on population numbers.

Comparative Associations Between Achieved Bicultural Identity, Achieved Ego Identity, and Achieved Religious Identity and Adaptation Among Australian Adolescent Muslims

2017 ◽  
Vol 121 (2) ◽  
pp. 324-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hisham M. Abu-Rayya ◽  
Maram H. Abu-Rayya ◽  
Fiona A. White ◽  
Richard Walker
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Cultural Adaptation ◽  
Psychological Adaptation ◽  
Ego Identity ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Bicultural Identity ◽  
Muslim Students ◽  
Identity Based

This study examined the comparative roles of biculturalism, ego identity, and religious identity in the adaptation of Australian adolescent Muslims. A total of 504 high school Muslim students studying at high schools in metropolitan Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, took part in this study which required them to complete a self-report questionnaire. Analyses indicated that adolescent Muslims’ achieved religious identity seems to play a more important role in shaping their psychological and socio-cultural adaptation compared to adolescents’ achieved bicultural identity. Adolescents’ achieved ego identity tended also to play a greater role in their psychological and socio-cultural adaptation than achieved bicultural identity. The relationships between the three identities and negative indicators of psychological adaptation were consistently indifferent. Based on these findings, we propose that the three identity-based forces—bicultural identity development, religious identity attainment, and ego identity formation—be amalgamated into one framework in order for researchers to more accurately examine the adaptation of Australian adolescent Muslims.

scholarly journals Commodification of Religion and Pop Culture on Social Media: Netnographic Studies

2018 ◽  
pp. 89
Author(s):  
Naili Ni'matul Illiyyun
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Cultural Industry ◽  
Muslim Communities

Instagram accounts owned by cultural industry have been followed by millions of followers and are not limited to a group of people in a country because cyberspace creates unlimited communities. Cultural industries that use Instagram place halal (allowed in Islam) and syar'i (based on Islamic law) labels as important elements in promoting their commodities. The following article tries to look at the commodification of several posts on Instagram that are related to religious identity and the implications that are formed by the cultural industry in Muslim communities. The following qualitative research is analyzed by content analysis based on data collection - neographic studies - from several Instagram accounts, such as travel, fashion, and cosmetics agent acoounts which utilize Islamic attributes. The results of this study indicate that the cultural industry always introduces new trends of pop culture through Instagram by using religious attributes, such as using the terms halal, syar'i, or Muslim. Religion as an agency is widely used by the cultural industry in advertising its commodities. In addition, the agency is a tool to persuade consumers to buy commodities and at the same time it is able to identify consumers as pious and modern Muslims.

scholarly journals RELIGIOUS IDENTITY AND INTRODUCTION OF CHILDREN TO RELIGION IN INTERETHNIC FAMILIES (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE REPUBLIC OF BASHKORTOSTAN)

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 36-42
Author(s):  
N.V. Korovkina ◽  
◽  
E.V. Sadretdinova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Religious Identity ◽  
The State ◽  
Religious Movements ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Interethnic Marriage ◽  
Republic Of Bashkortostan ◽  
Interfaith Marriages ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
The Republic

The article reveals some results of a sociological study on the features of religious identity of spouses and social practices of children's inclusion in interethnic families (on the example of the Republic of Bashkortostan). This topic is most relevant for multi-ethnic regions, where interfaith marriages are quite common, despite the presence of isolationist attitudes among a part of the population. Marriages between representatives of various religious movements lead to the formation of a special cross-cultural environment of interaction, which requires the spouses to make many decisions, including on the confessional affiliation of children, on the choice of mechanisms for the formation of religious identity. Based on the author's research, the article analyses the state of religious identity of a resident of a multi-ethnic region in a dynamic aspect. Special attention is paid to spouses who are in an interethnic marriage. The author studies variants of religious communications, among which the dominant one is the co-existence of religions in variations from "common / unified religion" to "equality". Most of the families studied are classified as egalitarian and democratic in terms of their power structure and upbringing model. The article provides data on the state of religious identity of children raised in multi-ethnic families. The authors call traditional, psychological and educational motives for introducing children to religion the predominant ones. Based on the presented material, the authors come to the conclusion that there are two most common models of introducing children to religion in interethnic families: passive (indirect) and active religious socialization. The first model is the most popular among residents of large cities, while traditional families choose the second one.

Social Identity Matters

2017 ◽  
pp. 326-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guida Helal ◽  
Wilson Ozuem
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Identity ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Identity Theory ◽  
Customer Relationships ◽  
Marketing Communications ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Fashion Apparel

Fashion brands' online presence provide a platform for customers to supplement social identity based on associations with brands, and ultimately this can shape brand perceptions among customers through promised functional and symbolic benefits. Social media has matured into the prime channel for regular interactions and the development of brand-customer relationships that enrich social identity. Drawing on social identity theory, the current chapter examines how the evolving social media platforms impact on brand perceptions in the fashion apparel and accessories industries. The chapter focuses on theoretical implications and managerial implications. The concluding section offers some significant roles that social media and social identity may play in keeping up with the design and development of marketing communications programmes.

Power in the Midst of Powerlessness

2020 ◽  
pp. 69-81
Author(s):  
Elan Hope
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Black Students ◽  
Campus Culture ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
The Public ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Racial Ethnic ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter provides insight into how Black and Latinx students navigated their identity as activists during a period in American history when social media documentation of racially-ethnically motivated violence made it impossible to pretend that America had entered a post-racial state of consciousness. There was little variation in how these students felt about police brutality and the targeting of Latinx deportation; almost all were disturbed, most were outraged. However, there was variation in the public visibility of their response and engagement with activism. Because of these societal realities, Black and Latinx college students have to balance academic pursuits with evolving racial-ethnic identity and growing civic purpose. As such, this chapter focuses on how identity-based counterspaces and activist campus culture facilitate Latinx and Black students' critical examination of race-ethnicity and racism.

scholarly journals Assessment of the Effectiveness of Identity-Based Public Health Announcements in Increasing the Likelihood of Complying With COVID-19 Guidelines: Randomized Controlled Cross-sectional Web-Based Study

10.2196/25762 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. e25762 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander S Dennis ◽  
Patricia L Moravec ◽  
Antino Kim ◽  
Alan R Dennis
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Data Quality ◽  
Disease Transmission ◽  
Amazon Mechanical Turk ◽  
Christian Identity ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
Identity Based

Background Public health campaigns aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 are important in reducing disease transmission, but traditional information-based campaigns have received unexpectedly extreme backlash. Objective This study aimed to investigate whether customizing of public service announcements (PSAs) providing health guidelines to match individuals’ identities increases their compliance. Methods We conducted a within- and between-subjects, randomized controlled cross-sectional, web-based study in July 2020. Participants viewed two PSAs: one advocating wearing a mask in public settings and one advocating staying at home. The control PSA only provided information, and the treatment PSAs were designed to appeal to the identities held by individuals; that is, either a Christian identity or an economically motivated identity. Participants were asked about their identity and then provided a control PSA and treatment PSA matching their identity, in random order. The PSAs were of approximately 100 words. Results We recruited 300 social media users from Amazon Mechanical Turk in accordance with usual protocols to ensure data quality. In total, 8 failed the data quality checks, and the remaining 292 were included in the analysis. In the identity-based PSA, the source of the PSA was changed, and a phrase of approximately 12 words relevant to the individual’s identity was inserted. A PSA tailored for Christians, when matched with a Christian identity, increased the likelihood of compliance by 12 percentage points. A PSA that focused on economic values, when shown to individuals who identified as economically motivated, increased the likelihood of compliance by 6 points. Conclusions Using social media to deliver COVID-19 public health announcements customized to individuals’ identities is a promising measure to increase compliance with public health guidelines. Trial Registration ISRCTN Registry 22331899; https://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN22331899.

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