Digital religion : understanding religious practice in new media worlds / edited by Heidi A. Campbell
Imprint
Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013
Descript
xi, 272 p. ; 25 cm
CONTENT
Ritual -- Identity -- Community -- Authority -- Authenticity -- Religion -- Hindu worship online and offline -- Virtual Buddhism: Buddhist ritual in second life -- Playing Muslim hero: construction of identity in video games -- Digital storytelling and collective religious identity in a moderate to progressive youth group -- Charting frontiers of online religious communities: the case of Chabad Jews -- Considering religious community through online churches -- The kosher cell phone in ultra-orthodox society: a technological ghetto within the global village? -- Formation of a religious technorati: negotiations of authority among Australian emerging church blogs -- Alt-Muslim: Muslims and modernity's discontents -- You are what you install: religious authenticity and identity in mobile apps -- Japanese new religions online: Hikari no Wa and 'net religion' -- "go online! said my guardian angel": the internet as a platform for religious negotiation -- Theoretical frameworks for approaching religion and new media -- Ethical issues in the study religion and new media -- Theology and the new media -- Concluding thoughts: imagining the religious in and through the digital