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Digital religion, social media, and culture, perspectives, practices, and futures, edited by Pauline Hope Cheong ... [et al.]

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Digital religion, social media, and culture

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edited by Pauline Hope Cheong ... [et al.]

Digital formations, v. 78

perspectives, practices, and futures

This anthology collects some of the most current research and reflection on the complex interactions between religion and computer-mediated communications (CMC). The contributions cohere around the central question: how will core religious understanding of identity, community and authority shape and be (re)shaped by the communicative possibilities of Web. 2.0? The authors address these questions in three distinct ways: through contemporary empirical research on how diverse traditions across the globe seek to take up the technologies and affordances of contemporary CDC; through investigations that place these contemporary developments in larger historical and theological contexts; and through careful reflection on the theoretical dimensions of research on religion and CMC.--From cover, p. [4]

1. Introduction : Religion 2.0? : relational and hybridizing pathways in religion, social media, and culture / Pauline Hope Cheong & Charles Ess -- Part I. Theorizing Digital Religion. 2. Dreams of church in cyberspace / Knut Lundby -- 3. The immanent internet redux / Bernie Hogan and Barry Wellman -- 4. New media, Wikifaith and church brandversation : a media ecology perspective / Bala A. Musa & Ibrahim M. Ahmadu -- 5. How religious communities negotiate new media religiously / Heidi Campbell -- 6. When Pinocchio goes to church : exploring an avatar religion / Jrgen Staarup -- Part II. Empirical Investigations. 7. Pastors on the internet : online responses to secularization / Peter Fischer-Nielsen -- 8. PICTURE: The adoption of ICT by Catholic priests / Lorenzo Cantoni, Emanuele Rapetti, Stefano Tardini, Sara Vannini, and Daniel Arasa -- 9. Voting "present" : religious organizational groups on Facebook / Mark D. Johns -- 10. "Keeping the line open and warm" : an activist Danish church and its presence on Facebook / Stine Lomborg and Charles Ess -- 11. Twitter of faith : understanding social media networking and microblogging rituals as relgious practices / Pauline Hope Cheong -- 12. Creating church online : networks and collectives in contemporary Christianity / Tim Hutchings -- Part III. Historical and Theological Examinations. 13. "Let there be digital networks and God will provide growth?" : comparing aims and hopes of 19th-century and post-millennial Christianity / Stefan Gelfgren -- 14. "A moderate diversity of books?" : the challenge of new media to the practice of Christian theology / Peter Horsfield -- 15. Clocks and computers : the doctrine of "imago Dei, " technologies, and humanism / Sam Han -- 16. Toward a theology of the internet : place, relationship, and sin / Lynne M. Baab -- 17. Conclusion : Religion in a digital age : future developments and research directions / Peter Fischer-Nielsen and Stefan Gelfgren