10. Virtual Allegiance: Online ‘Bayʿah’ Practices within a Worldwide Sufi Order

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Figures viii
5. Tables x
6. Contributors xi
7. 1. Faith and Language Practices in Digital Spaces: An Introduction 1
8. Part 1. Faith, Language and Social Media
9. 2. Re-Parishing in Social Media: Identity-Based Virtual Faith Communities and Physical Parishes 19
10. 3. Facebook: A Medium for the Language Planning of Migrant Churches 45
11. Part 2. Faith, Language and Transnational Online Practices
12. 4. Ifa, the Word and the Virtual World: A Study of the Perceptions of and Attitudes toward Ifa Religious Tradition on the Internet 71
13. 5. Globalising Yoruba Taboos and their Sociocultural and Religious Values 91
14. 6. Yiddish Wikipedia: History Revisited 113
15. Part 3. Faith, Language and Online Televangelism
16. 7. Digital Evangelism: Varieties of English in Unexpected Places 135
17. 8. American Muslim Televangelists as Religious Celebrities: The Changing ‘Face’ of Religious Discourse 158
18. Part 4. Faith, Language and Online Ritual
19. 9. Online Satsang and Online Puja: Faith and Language in the Era of Globalisation 185
20. 10. Virtual Allegiance: Online ‘Bayʿah’ Practices within a Worldwide Sufi Order 209
21. Part 5. Afterword
22. 11. Afterword 237
23. Index 242