Creative and Lucrative Daʿwa: The Visual Culture of Instagram amongst Female Muslim Youth in Indonesia

Nisa, Eva F.

doi:10.1163/22142312-12340085

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“…There is a need for more scholarship on contexts outside of North America, Europe and Australia, as well as original theorization of media and religion grounded in the specific cultural and political contexts. Relevant work on media and religion has been done in contexts such as the Middle East and North Africa (Echchaibi, 2009), Ghana (Asamoah-Gyadu, 2013), South Africa (Khanyile, 2017), Indonesia (Nisa, 2018;Jones, 2010;and Beta, 2019), Brazil (Cunha, 2004), India (Thomas, 2008) and South Korea (Park, 2016and Kim, 2017. While this work is a productive start, big picture theorization on the relationship between media and religion needs to build on critical theory within decolonial contexts.…”

Section: Spaces For Expansion and Deeper Theorizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Pushing boundaries and blurring categories in digital media and religion research

Peterson

2020

Sociology Compass

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As religious identity and spiritual practices transform and expand in the digital media moment, this article advocates for more critical scholarship on media and religion that examines the complex ways that individuals make meaning in the digital age. First, I present an overview of foundational media and religion theories that analyze the interactions between these ever‐changing fields, such as the culturalist tradition, mediatization theory, and the social shaping of technology approach. Furthermore, this essay highlights insightful research trends that blur distinctions between media spaces and complicate definitions of religion. Finally, a discussion of gaps in the scholarship will justify an argument for more theories centered in international contexts, as well as analysis of the relationships between media technologies, aesthetics, affect, identity and religious expression. These emerging approaches provide more in‐depth discussions of how the fast‐changing and ever‐complex digital culture is deeply connected to the evolving nature of religion and human existence.

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Section: Spaces For Expansion and Deeper Theorizationmentioning

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Pushing boundaries and blurring categories in digital media and religion research

Peterson

2020

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“…More specifically, the internet has offered a new public space for women to reflect on both religious and female interests (Slama 2010) and has also played a role in building relationships between preachers and followers by establishing religious authority (Slama 2017). In addition, social media is also used for da'wa to share Islamic knowledge among Muslims teenagers (Nisa 2018).…”

Section: Internet-based Islamic Learning As Religious Populism: Indonmentioning

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Internet and Islamic Learning Practices in Indonesia: Social Media, Religious Populism, and Religious Authority

Solahudin

Fakhruroji

2019

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Like in many other developing countries, Indonesia’s population has been amongst the most enthusiastic ‘uptakers’ of the internet, especially of social media. Most Indonesians utilize the internet as an information source, including religious ones. Various groups and communities of Islamic studies have appeared on social media along with religious leaders who are also active on social media. Based on the various characteristics that have emerged, Islamic learning practices scattered across various social media platforms have increasingly illustrated the symptoms of religious populism. This is marked by the various socio-religious movements that have emerged from these practices. By using a digital religion perspective in order to observe Islamic learning practices on several social media platforms, this paper argues that social media has become a productive space for the development of religious populism in Indonesia. At first glance, religious populism on social media seems to challenge authoritative figures or religious institutions, but it can also be seen as a way for Islamic agents to convey Islamic teachings in a media-friendly culture.

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“…In her analysis of the Instagram accounts UkhtiSally (Sister Sally) and Duniajilbab (World of jilbab), Eva Nisa (2018) argues that Indonesian Muslimah are using the plat-form to develop a "soft" form of dakwah-ie a form of pros-elytizing imparted by way of glossy images, depicting women as key actors in the consumer economy, and woven into lucrative social media-based businesses (pp. 68-71).…”

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Hijabers on Instagram: Using Visual Social Media to Construct the Ideal Muslim Woman

Pramiyanti¹,

Baulch²

2018

SSRN Journal

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This article studies uses of Instagram by members of Indonesia's Hijabers' Community. It shows how hijabers employ Instagram as a stage for performing middle-classness, but also for dakwah ("the call, invitation or challenge to Islam"), which they consider one of their primary tasks as Muslims. By enfolding the taking and sharing of images of Muslimah bodies on Instagram into this Quranic imperative, the hijabers shape an Islamic-themed bodily esthetic for middle class women, and at the same time present this bodily esthetic as a form of Islamic knowledge. The article extends work on influencer culture on Instagram, which has considered how and whether women exert control over their bodies in post-feminist performances of female entrepreneurship and consumer choice on social media. In it, we argue that examining the "enframement" of hijaberness on Instagram show it to be both a Muslim variant of post-feminist performances on social media, and a female variant of electronically-mediated Muslim preaching. That is, hijabers' performances of veiled femininity structure and are structured by two distinct fields-a dynamic global digital culture and a changing field of Islamic communicationand point to a "composite habitus," similar to that identified by Waltorp.

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Creative and Lucrative Daʿwa: The Visual Culture of Instagram amongst Female Muslim Youth in Indonesia

Cited by 92 publications

References 34 publications

Pushing boundaries and blurring categories in digital media and religion research

Pushing boundaries and blurring categories in digital media and religion research

Internet and Islamic Learning Practices in Indonesia: Social Media, Religious Populism, and Religious Authority

Hijabers on Instagram: Using Visual Social Media to Construct the Ideal Muslim Woman

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