A Pious Public: Islamic Magazines and Revival in Egypt, 1976–1981

Rock‐Singer, Aaron

doi:10.1080/13530194.2014.1002387

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“…Szustak very skillfully produces tracts of advice in the form of easy-to-watch and entertaining self-help videos, using the Internet as a tool for reaching a large audience of young adults on an everyday basis. If, in the past, religious preachers used such means of dissemination of their practical theology as pamphlets, booklets, written sermons, and more recently, audiorecordings (Rock-Singer 2015, today, the Internet has become an important platform, even more so with the Covid-19 pandemic, that has abruptly and hastily forced many religious communities to move their preaching to cyberspace and become increasingly digital (Pędziwiatr et al 2020).…”

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Making the Ordinary Exceptional: The Success of a Polish YouTube Monk

Thériault¹,

Pędziwiatr²

2021

RASCEE

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In this brief essay, we look at a contemporary example of “practical theology:” a fragment of the internet production of Adam Szustak, a Polish Dominican monk, combined with interviews with a small sample of subscribers. Searching for clues to his success, we are attentive to the life conduct and aesthetics he conveys in his videos. In presenting himself as “ordinary,” “normal,” and “authentic,” we argue that he succeeds in speaking to the aspirations and interests of young Catholics in Poland in the context of the increasing politicization of the Church and the strengthening alliance of its more conservative faction with the right-wing government.

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Making the Ordinary Exceptional: The Success of a Polish YouTube Monk

Thériault¹,

Pędziwiatr²

2021

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“…uhr prayer into a means of political challenge that combined prior conceptions of Islamic temporality with a state-sponsored concept of order. On this basis, leading figures within the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Jam iyya al-Shar iyya, and alJama a al-Islamiyya, alongside middle-class readers of Islamic magazines, 8 established prayer within bureaucratic schedules and claimed ritual space within state institutions to facilitate its collective performance.…”

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Prayer and the Islamic Revival: A Timely Challenge

Rock‐Singer¹

2016

Int. J. Middle East Stud.

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This article traces the emergence of the early afternoon z . uhr prayer as a key project of subject formation during the second half of the Anwar al-Sadat period . Drawing on three Islamic magazines of differing ideological orientation (Muslim Brotherhood-Islamist, Salafi-Islamist, and state-sponsored), all containing letters to the editor and fatwa requests, it charts contestation among religious elites and the reception of their programmatic visions. Specifically, the article explores the performance of this daily prayer as a hybrid practice that disrupted the temporal and spatial claims of a state-sponsored bureaucratic order to produce national subjects within public schools and bureaucratic institutions, even as it reproduced the state's emphasis on temporal precision and social order. Based on these texts, this article challenges previous scholarly narratives that place Islamist projects of subject formation on the fringes of secularism and previous studies of Islamist mobilization that posit a separate social universe of Islamist activism.

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Inside Tunisia's al-Nahda

McCarthy

2018

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A Pious Public: Islamic Magazines and Revival in Egypt, 1976–1981

Cited by 26 publications

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Making the Ordinary Exceptional: The Success of a Polish YouTube Monk

Making the Ordinary Exceptional: The Success of a Polish YouTube Monk

Prayer and the Islamic Revival: A Timely Challenge

Inside Tunisia's al-Nahda

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