Faith and Language Practices in Digital Spaces

Andrey Rosowsky is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Sheffield, UK. He is the author of Heavenly Readings: Liturgical Literacy in a Multilingual Context (Multilingual Matters, 2008).

• 1. Andrey Rosowsky: Faith and Language Practices In Digital Spaces: IntroductionSection 1 – Faith, Language and Social Media2. Thor Sawin: Re-Parishing In Social Media: Identity-Based Virtual Faith Communities and Physical Parishes3. Ana Souza: Facebook: A Medium for the Language Planning Of Migrant ChurchesSection 2 – Faith, Language and Transnational Online Practices4. L. Oladipo Salami: Ifa, the Word and the Virtual World: A Study of the Perceptions of and Attitudes Towards Ifa Religious Tradition on the Internet5. Iyabode Deborah Akande: Globalizing Yoruba Taboos and their Socio-Cultural and Religious Value6. Tatjana Soldat-Jaffe: Yiddish Wikipedia - History RevisitedSection 3 – Faith, Language and Online Televangelism7. Tope Omoniyi: Digital Evangelism: Varieties of English in Unexpected Places8. Shaimaa El Naggar: American Muslim Televangelists as Religious Celebrities: The Changing “Face” of Religious DiscourseSection 4 – Faith, Language and Online Ritual9. Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande: Online Satsang and Online Puja: Faith and Language in the Era of Globalization10. Andrey Rosowsky: Virtual Allegiance: Online “Baya’a” Practices Within a Worldwide Sufi OrderSection 5 - Afterword11. Bernard Spolsky: Afterword

Research in the Sociology of Language and Religion (SLR) has been gaining momentum over the past decade or so. This volume advances the discussion by focusing on computer and telephonic technologies. Students of religion and sociolinguistics alike will benefit from these skillful probes of the digital world in which we now seem to live and move and have our being.