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Anthropological Perspectives on the Religious Uses of Mobile Apps

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), 248 pp.

Contains index

1 Piety in the Pocket: An Introduction / Jacqueline H. Fewkes, 1
I. COMMUNITY, CONTEXTS, AND PRACTICES
2 Sufi Remembrance Practices in the Meditation Marketplace of a Mobile App / Megan Adamson Sijapati, 19
3 An Ambivalent Jewishness: Half Shabbos, the Shabbos App, and Modern Orthodoxy / Robert Phillips, 43
4 From Self-Learning Pathshala to Pilgrimage App: Studying the Expanding World of Jain Religious Apps / Tine Vekemans, 61
5 Latinx Muslims "Like" One Another: An Ethnographic Exploration of Social Media and the Formation of Latinx Muslim Community / Ken Chitwood, 83
II. AUTHORITY, SUBJECTIVITY, AND NETWORKS OF KNOWLEDGE
6 "Siri Is Alligator Halal?": Mobile Apps, Food Practices, and Religious Authority Among American Muslims / Jacqueline H. Fewkes, 107
7 iPrayer: Catholic Prayer Apps and Twenty-First-Century Catholic Subjectivities / Katherine Dugan, 131
8 Mobile Apps and Religious Processes Among Pentecostal-Charismatic Christians in Zimbabwe / Josiah Taru, 153
III. SPACE, MOBILITY AND IMMATERIALITY
9 Medieval "Miracle of Equilibrium" or Contemporary Shrine of "Rock-Hard Faith"? The Role of Digital Media in Guiding Visitors' Experiences of Rocamadour, France / Deana L. Weibel, 177
10 Bringing Creation to a Museum Near You / Lindsay M. Barone, 199
11 The JW Library App, Jehovah's Witness Technological Change, and Ethical Object-Formation / Danny Cardoza, 219