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 has now closed.
Agenda
9.30- 10am Registrations
10 – 10.10 Introduction from Digital British Islam Team
10.10 – 11.10 – Panel 1
11.10 – 11.20 Break
11.20 – 12.35 Panel 2
12.35-13.35 Lunch
13.35 – 14.35 Panel 3
14.35 – 14.45 Break
14.45 – 16.00 Panel 4
16.00 – 16.05 Closing Thoughts
Panels
| Panel 1 – Innovative Methods and Platforms [Chair: Barbara Denuelle] | |
| Fouad Gehad Marei [Online] | 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 [Online] | Search Engine Optimization (SEO) as Methodology: Uncovering Contemporary Religious Needs Through Digital Traces |
| Panel 2 – Digital Archives and Cataloguing [Chair: Muhammad Nabil] | |
| Emily Cottrell [Online] | From “The Book” to No Books: Digital Humanities and the Dialogue of Religions |
| Helena Byrne [Online] | Using the UK Web Archive to understand religion on the web |
| Gary Bunt | Digital British Islam: Archiving Muslim Spaces Online |
| Anna Grasso [Online] | An Analysis of the Ahmadiyya Community’s Online Presence and Transnational Networks in Europe using Archive-It and ARCH |
| Panel 3 – Mixed Methods and Online-Offline Dynamics [Chair: Ulya Fuhaidah] | |
| Barbara Denuelle | Digital Ethnography and the Ethical Challenge of Privacy |
| Janet Bauer [Online] | 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 [Chair: Gary Bunt] | |
| Akif Tahiiev | Digital Shiʿism and Ethical Dilemmas in the Study of Digital Religious Minorities: Methodological Reflections |
| Muntazir Mir [Online] | Researching Religious Sectarianism Online: Key Methodological Issues |
| Nur Efeoglu [Online] | Curating Islam Online: Religious Heritage in UK Museum Digital Catalogues |
| Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor | Digital British Islam: The Ethics of Online Research |