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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: Sufism.com: Virtual Expressions of American Islam Tuesday, October 6, 2015 Robert RozehnalAssociate Professor and Director of the Center for Global Islamic Studies, Lehigh UniversityWithin the 'spiritual marketplace' of American religious life, Cyberspace offers tech-savvy Muslims an alternative platform for narratives, networking and ritual experience. Since the adoption of the printing press, Sufis have demonstrated a remarkable ability to adopt and adapt to emerging media technologies. Even so, the use of the Internet by global Sufi communities remains largely unexplored by academic scholarship. Drawing on new research, this presentation examines how several distinct American Sufi orders utilize Cyberspace as a unique mediascape for the refashioning of authority, identity and ritual performance. Location: Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium Sponsor: American and Indigenous Studies Program; Experimental Humanities Program; Interdisciplinary Study of Religions Program; Middle Eastern Studies Program Contact: Tehseen Thaver. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 845-758-7207 If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: http://inside.bard.edu/religion/events/