@article {2790,
	title = {Counselling Muslim Selves on Islamic Websites: Walking a Tightrope Between Secular and Religious Counselling Ideals?},
	journal = {Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture},
	year = {2015},
	abstract = {This article focuses on the interactive counselling service Problems and Answers (PS), an Arabic language and Islamic online counselling service, which draws on global therapeutic counselling trends. For over a decade, PS was run and hosted by www.IslamOnline.net (IOL). Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this article aims to provide a layered, contextualized understanding of online Islamic counselling, through addressing the {\textquoteleft}invisible{\textquoteright}, {\textquoteleft}behind the screens{\textquoteright} aspects of PS counselling and the meaning making activities that inform the online output. In particular, I examine: 1. The multiple ways in which {\textquoteleft}religion{\textquoteright} shapes the PS counsellors{\textquoteright} counselling output, and 2. The extent to which secular and religious counselling ideals clash, in PS counselling. Drawing on a mixed methods approach, I demonstrate instances in which offline data nuance and generate new understandings of online data. The findings demonstrate the multivocality and variations in the PS counsellors{\textquoteright} perspectives on both religion and counselling psychology, and shed light on possible tensions between professed ideals and actual online practices.},
	doi = {10.1163/21659214-90000099},
	url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322380732_Counselling_Muslim_Selves_on_Islamic_Websites_Walking_a_Tightrope_Between_Secular_and_Religious_Counselling_Ideals},
	author = {Abdel-Fadil, Mona}
}
