Digital Methodologies for the Study of Religion, 25th June 2025, Coventry University
This conference is free to attend but please register as soon as possible. Registration details available here: https://digitalbritishislam.com/symposium-registration/
Draft Programme (TBC)
9.30- 10.00 Registrations
10 – 10.05 Introduction from Digital British Islam Team
10.05 – 11.20 – Panel 1
11.20 – 11.30 Break
11.30 – 12.45 Panel 2
12.45-13.45 Lunch
13.45 – 14.45 Panel 3
14.45 – 14.55 Break
14.55 – 16.10 Panel 4
16.10 – 16.15 Closing Thoughts
Panels (TBC)
| Panel 1 – Innovative Methods and Platforms | |
| Fouad Gehad Marei | Ethics and Methodologies for the Study of Islamic Devotion in Virtual Reality |
| Latife Çakır Durdu | Digital Sanctuaries of the Sacred: The Epistemological Construction of Contemporary Spirituality on Social Media |
| Mojtaba Jafari | Search Engine Optimization (SEO) as Methodology: Uncovering Contemporary Religious Needs Through Digital Traces |
| Panel 2 – Digital Archives and Cataloguing | |
| Emily Cottrell | From “The Book” to No Books: Digital Humanities and the Dialogue of Religions |
| Nicola Bingham and Helena Byrne | Using the UK Web Archive to understand religion on the web |
| Anna Grasso | An Analysis of the Ahmadiyya Community’s Online Presence and Transnational Networks in Europe using Archive-It and ARCH |
| Gary Bunt | Digital British Islam: Archiving Muslim Spaces Online |
| Panel 3 – Mixed Methods and Online-Offline Dynamics | |
| Barbara Denuelle | Digital Ethnography and the Ethical Challenge of Privacy |
| Janet Bauer | Trinbagonian Muslim Women and Social Dawah: Digital Methodologies in the Longitudinal Study of Pious Modernity |
| Laura Jones | Digital British Islam: Combining Quantitative and Qualitative Methods |
| Panel 4 – Emerging Ethical Challenges | |
| Akif Tahiiev | Digital Shiʿism and Ethical Dilemmas in the Study of Digital Religious Minorities: Methodological Reflections |
| Muntazir Mir | Researching Religious Sectarianism Online: Key Methodological Issues |
| Nur Efeoglu | Curating Islam Online: Religious Heritage in UK Museum Digital Catalogues |
| Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor | Digital British Islam: The Ethics of Online Research |