Since the early 2010s, apps have helped Muslim pilgrims manage nearly every aspect of the hajj. This article uses the Saudi Ministry of Hajj and Umrah's hajj apps as a case study of influential hajj apps, offering a descriptive and analytic review of their functioning, impact, and reception. This case study helps point to the importance of hajj management as a state-level political and religious enterprise, helping widen the focus on religious app research from user-oriented, ritual or scriptural apps to include those that serve the management of religion and believers. This widened focus in turn highlights the need to recognize the internal variety within the category of religious apps: these apps have different target users, do different kinds of work, have diverse impacts, and enjoy differing receptions. While the Ministry's operations-focused hajj apps garner less attention, they may be more critical to its successful management of the hajj. As research interest in Islam-focused apps continues to grow, it will be important to pay careful attention to apps that address the business of religion, and not just the ritual practices.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2020
توصيف ظاهري
228-246
عنوان
Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture
شماره جلد
9/2
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
2165-9214
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
hajj
اصطلاح موضوعی
Islamic apps
اصطلاح موضوعی
Islamic studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religion & Society
اصطلاح موضوعی
religious apps
اصطلاح موضوعی
Religious Studies
اصطلاح موضوعی
Saudi Arabia
اصطلاح موضوعی
Social Sciences
اصطلاح موضوعی
Sociology of Religion
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