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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Campbell, Heidi, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media in religion.

Mass media--Religious aspects.

Mass media.

Digital media.

Physical Description:

xi, 272 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Summary:

Digital Religion offers a critical and systematic survey of the study of religion and new media. It covers religious engagement with a wide range of new media forms, highlighting examples from all five of the major world religions and other new religious movements. From cell phones and video games to blogs and Second Life, this book:

provides a detailed review of issues related to religious authority, authenticity, community, identity, and ritual online

includes a series of case studies that illustrate and elucidate thematic explorations

considers the theoretical, ethical, and theological issues raised.

Drawing together the work of leading international experts from key disciplinary perspectives, Digital Religion is invaluable for scholars and students wanting to develop a deeper understanding of the field. Book jacket.

Contents:

Contents note continued: 14.The kosher cell phone in ultra-Orthodox society: A technological ghetto within the global village? / Tsuriel Rashi

15.Formation of a religious Technorati: Negotiations of authority among Australian emerging church blogs / Paul Emerson Teusner

Authenticity

16.Alt-Muslim: Muslims and modernity's discontents / Nabil Echchaibi

17.You are what you install: Religious authenticity and identity in mobile apps / Rachel Wagner

Religion

18.Japanese new religions online: Hikari no Wa and "net religion" / Erica Baffelli

19."`Go online!' said my guardian angel": The Internet as platform for religious negotiation / Nadja Miczek

pt. III Reflections on studying religion and new media

20.Theoretical frameworks for approaching religion and new media / Knut Lundby

21.Ethical issues in the study of religion and new media / Mark D. Johns

22.Theology and the new media / Stephen Garner

Contents note continued: 23.Concluding thoughts: Imagining the religious in and through the digital / Stewart M. Hoover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780415676106

041567610X

9780415676113

0415676118

9780203084861

0203084861

OCLC:

754732301