Anthropological Perspectives on the Religious Uses of Mobile Apps

Jacqueline H. Fewkes is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Wilkes Honors College of Florida Atlantic University, USA. Dr. Fewkes is also the author of the books Locating Maldivian Women’s Mosques in Global Discourses (2019), and Trade and Contemporary Society along the Silk Road: An Ethno-history of Ladakh (2008).

• Chapter 1: Piety in the Pocket: An Introduction.- Part I: Community, Contexts, and Practice.- Chapter 2: Sufi Remembrance Practices in the Meditation Marketplace of a Mobile App.- Chapter 3: An Ambivalent Jewishness: Half Shabbos, the Shabbos App, and Modern Orthodoxy.- Chapter 4: From Self-Learning Pathshala to Pilgrimage App: Studying the Expanding World of Jain Religious Apps.- Chapter 5: Latinx Muslims "Like" One Another: An Ethnographic Exploration of Social Media and the Formation of Latinx Muslim Community.- Part II: Authority, Subjectivity, and Networks of Knowledge.- Chapter 6: "Siri is Alligator Halal?": Mobile Apps, Food Practices and Religious Authority in American Muslim Communities.- Chapter 7: iPrayer: catholic Payer Apps and Twenty-first Centry Catholic Subjectivities.- Chapter 8: Mobile Apps and Religious Processes among Pentecostal Charismatic Christians in Zimbabwe.- Part III: Space, Mobility, and Immateriality.- Chapter 9: Medieval "Miracle of Equilibrium" or Contemporary Shrine of "Rock-Hard Faith"?: The Role of Digital media in Guiding Visitors' Experiences of Rocamadour, France.- Chapter 10: Bringing Creation to a Museum near You.- Chapter 11: The JW Library App, Jehovah's Witness Technological Change, and Ethical Object-Formation.