Learning to be authentic. Religious Practices of German and Dutch Muslims following the Salafiyya in forums and chat rooms

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Becker, Carmen: Learning to be authentic. Religious Practices of German and Dutch Muslims following the Salafiyya in forums and chat rooms. Hannover : Institutionelles Repositorium der Leibniz Universität Hannover, Diss., 2023, v, 311 S. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15488/14528

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In the last decades the Salafiyya as one current within a long history within Islam has come to Europe and become increasingly popular among young Muslims looking for an “authentic” Islam. It is therefore not surprising, that they have taken their interest in religion to the internet and, more specifically, to the computer-mediated environments of social media like chat rooms and online forums. This leads to a series of central questions for the dynamics within the Salafiyya: How do Salafi Muslims approach and use the religious sources (Quran and hadith) in these environments? What kind of religious practices occur in these spaces and how do they relate to offline practices? How are Muslim identities within the Salafiyya formed and maintained in computer-mediated environments? What does this mean for the subjectivity of the individual believer? And how is the religious authority within the Salafiyya affected by these developments? This study answers these questions by employing an innovative methodological approach grounded in practice theory and online ethnography. The data was collected online and offline during extensive and intensive fieldwork in Germany, the Netherlands, and in computer-mediated environement of Muslims inspired by the Salafiya from 2008 until 2011. The study shows how technical and socio-cultural affordances as well as practices reproduce Islam as understood by Salafi Muslims in the specific settings of computer-mediated environments.
License of this version: CC BY 3.0 DE
Document Type: DoctoralThesis
Publishing status: publishedVersion
Issue Date: 2023
Appears in Collections:Philosophische Fakultät

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1 image of flag of United States United States 76 29.34%
2 image of flag of Germany Germany 67 25.87%
3 image of flag of No geo information available No geo information available 30 11.58%
4 image of flag of Russian Federation Russian Federation 10 3.86%
5 image of flag of India India 9 3.47%
6 image of flag of United Kingdom United Kingdom 6 2.32%
7 image of flag of France France 5 1.93%
8 image of flag of Czech Republic Czech Republic 5 1.93%
9 image of flag of Indonesia Indonesia 4 1.54%
10 image of flag of Bulgaria Bulgaria 4 1.54%
    other countries 43 16.60%

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