TY - JOUR

T1 - Digitizing the Field of women's Islamic Education.

T2 - Changing Infrastructures during Coronavirus lockdown in Denmark

AU - Lyngsøe, Maria Lindebæk

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - This article builds on fieldwork conducted in 2019 and 2020 and examines the implications of Covid-19 lockdown for the engagement of Danish Muslim women in Islamic educational activities. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari (2012) and Larkin (2008b), it displays how technological infrastructure influences religious practice and the constitution of religious space. For the women engaged in Islamic education, the forced use of digital-media technologies unmoored conditions for being at activities, reorganized time and space, and changed conditions for relating to communities. As home became the territory from where the women conducted all religious practices, including educational activities, classes and seminars were accessed on more individualized terms and became more easily integrated with other everyday activities. This made room for expanding engagement and accessing more diverse educational opportunities. At the same time, it withdrew the women from spaces of bodily and sensory togetherness, where feelings of community and connection would usually be nurtured.

AB - This article builds on fieldwork conducted in 2019 and 2020 and examines the implications of Covid-19 lockdown for the engagement of Danish Muslim women in Islamic educational activities. Drawing on Deleuze and Guattari (2012) and Larkin (2008b), it displays how technological infrastructure influences religious practice and the constitution of religious space. For the women engaged in Islamic education, the forced use of digital-media technologies unmoored conditions for being at activities, reorganized time and space, and changed conditions for relating to communities. As home became the territory from where the women conducted all religious practices, including educational activities, classes and seminars were accessed on more individualized terms and became more easily integrated with other everyday activities. This made room for expanding engagement and accessing more diverse educational opportunities. At the same time, it withdrew the women from spaces of bodily and sensory togetherness, where feelings of community and connection would usually be nurtured.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - Islamic education

KW - Muslim Women

KW - Islam in Denmark

KW - Religion and Covid-19

KW - Religion and Media

U2 - 10.30664/ar.111015

DO - 10.30664/ar.111015

M3 - Journal article

VL - 12

SP - 184

EP - 200

JO - Approaching Religion

JF - Approaching Religion

SN - 1799-3121

IS - 1

ER -