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Digital religion : understanding religious practice in new media worlds / edited by Heidi A. Campbell.

Contributor(s): Campbell, Heidi, 1970-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2013Description: xi, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780415676113 (pbk); 0415676118 (pbk); 9780415676106; 041567610XSubject(s): Mass media in religion | Mass media -- Religious aspects | Digital media | Communication -- Religious aspects | Internet -- Religious aspects | Social media -- Religious aspectsDDC classification: 201/.7 LOC classification: BL638 | .D54 2013Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction : the rise of the study of digital religion / Heidi A. Campbell -- Themes in the study of religion and new media -- Ritual / Christopher Helland -- Identity / Mia Lövheim -- Community / Heidi A. Campbell -- Authority / Pauline Hope Cheong -- Authenticity / Kerstin Radde-Antweilier -- Religion / Gregory Price Grieve -- Thematic case studies -- Hindu worship online and offline / Heinz Scheifinger -- Virtual Buddhism : Buddhist ritual in second life / Louis Connelly -- Playing Muslim hero : construction of identity in video games / Vit Sisler -- Digital storytelling and collective religious identity in a moderate to progressive youth group / Lynn Schoefield Clark and Jill Dierberg -- Charting frontiers of online religious communities : the case of Chabad Jews / Oren Golan -- Considering religious community through online churches / Tim Hutchings --
The kosher cell phone in ultra-Orthodox society : a technological ghetto within the global village? / Tsuriel Rashi -- Formation of a religious Technorati : negotiations of authority among Australian emerging church blogs / Paul Emerson Teusner -- Alt-Muslim : Muslims and modernity's discontents / Nabil Echchaibi -- You are what you install : religious authenticity and identity in mobile apps / Rachel Wagner -- Japanese new religions online : Hikari no Wa and "net religion" / Erica Baffelli -- "'Go online!' said my guardian angel" : the Internet as platform for religious negotiation / Nadja Miczek -- Reflections on studying religion and new media -- Theoretical frameworks for approaching religion and new media / Knut Lundby -- Ethical issues in the study of religion and new media / Mark D. Johns -- Theology and the new media / Stephen Garner -- Concluding thoughts : Imagining the religious in and through the digital / Stewart M. Hoover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the rise of the study of digital religion / Heidi A. Campbell -- Part I : Themes in the study of religion and new media -- Ritual / Christopher Helland -- Identity / Mia Lövheim -- Community / Heidi A. Campbell -- Authority / Pauline Hope Cheong -- Authenticity / Kerstin Radde-Antweilier -- Religion / Gregory Price Grieve -- Part II : Thematic case studies -- Hindu worship online and offline / Heinz Scheifinger -- Virtual Buddhism : Buddhist ritual in second life / Louis Connelly -- Playing Muslim hero : construction of identity in video games / Vit Sisler -- Digital storytelling and collective religious identity in a moderate to progressive youth group / Lynn Schoefield Clark and Jill Dierberg -- Charting frontiers of online religious communities : the case of Chabad Jews / Oren Golan -- Considering religious community through online churches / Tim Hutchings --

The kosher cell phone in ultra-Orthodox society : a technological ghetto within the global village? / Tsuriel Rashi -- Formation of a religious Technorati : negotiations of authority among Australian emerging church blogs / Paul Emerson Teusner -- Alt-Muslim : Muslims and modernity's discontents / Nabil Echchaibi -- You are what you install : religious authenticity and identity in mobile apps / Rachel Wagner -- Japanese new religions online : Hikari no Wa and "net religion" / Erica Baffelli -- "'Go online!' said my guardian angel" : the Internet as platform for religious negotiation / Nadja Miczek -- Part III : Reflections on studying religion and new media -- Theoretical frameworks for approaching religion and new media / Knut Lundby -- Ethical issues in the study of religion and new media / Mark D. Johns -- Theology and the new media / Stephen Garner -- Concluding thoughts : Imagining the religious in and through the digital / Stewart M. Hoover.

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