Digital religion
Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds

Digital Religion offers a critical and systematic survey of the study of religion and new media. Itcovers religious engagement with a wide range of new media forms (including blogs, cell phones, Second Life, video games, and websites) and highlights examples of new media engagement in all five of the major world religions. Part One provides a detailed review of major topics, Part Two includes a series of case studies to illustrate and elucidate the thematic explorations, and Part Three considers the theoretical, ethical and theological issues raised. Drawing together the work of experts from key disciplinary perspectives,this book will beinvaluable in helpingstudents to develop a deeper understanding of the field.

Part One Community Heidi Campbell Authority Pauline Cheong Religion Greg Grieves Ritual Christopher Helland Identity Mia Lövheim Authenticity Kerstin Radde-Antweiler Part Two Japanese New Religions Online: Hikari no Wa and "Net Religion" Erica Baffelli Digital Storytelling and Collective Religious Identity in a Moderate to Progressive Youth Group Lynn Schofield Clark and Jill Dierberg Islamizing New Media Nabil Echchaibi Charting Frontiers of Online Religious Communities: The Case of Chabad Jews Oren Golan Considering Religious Community through Online Churches Tim Hutchings ">,Go Online!<, Said My Guardian Angel" The Internet as Platform of Religious Negotiation Nadja Miczek The Kosher Cell Phone in Ultra-Orthodox Society: A Technological Ghetto within the Global Village? Tsuriel Rashi Hindu Worship Online and Offline Heinz Scheifinger Playing Muslim Hero: Constructing Religious Identity in Video Games Vit Sisler Formation of a Religious Technorati: Negotiations of Authority Among Australian Emerging Church Blogs Paul Teusner The Digital Bricoleur: Authenticity in a Wired World Rachel Wagner Virtual Buddhism: Buddhist Ritual in Second Life Louise Connelly Part Three Theology and the Internet Stephen Garner Theoretical Frameworks for Approaching Religion and New Media Knut Lundby Ethics in Internet Research Mark Johns