Lorne L. Dawson / Douglas E. Cowan (eds.)

Religion Online

Finding Faith on the Internet
Herausgeber: Dawson, Lorne L; Cowan, Douglas E

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

After sex, religion is one of the most popular and pervasive topics of interest online, with over three million Americans turning to the internet each day for religious information and spiritual guidance. Tens of thousands of elaborate websites are dedicated to every manner of expression. "Religion Online" provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this burgeoning new religious reality, from cyberpilgrimages to neo-pagan chatroom communities. A substantial introduction by the editors presenting the main themes and issues is followed by sixteen chapters addressing core issues of concern such as youth, religion and the internet, new religious movements and recruitment, propaganda and the countercult, and religious tradition and innovation. The volume also includes the "Pew Internet and American Life Project" "Executive" "Summary," the most comprehensive and widely cited study on how Americans pursue religion online, and Steven O'Leary's field-defining "Cyberspace as Sacred Space."

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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780415970228
• ISBN-10: 0415970229
• Artikelnr.: 22471152

Autorenporträt

Lorne L. Dawson is Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Waterloo in Canada. His many publications include Comprehending Cults: The Sociology of New Religious Movements and Cults and New ReligiousMovements: A Reader. Douglas E. Cowan is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Sociology at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He is the author of several books including the forthcoming Cyberhenge:ModernPaganism on the World Wide Web (Routledge, 2004).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Lorne L. Dawson and Douglas E. Cowan 2. Cyberfaith: How Americans Pursue Religion Online
Elena Larsen Part I: Being Religious in Cyberspace 3. Popular Religion and the World Wide Web: A Match Made in (Cyber) Heaven
Christopher Helland 4. Cyberspace as Sacred Space: Communicating Religion on Computer Networks
Stephen D. O'Leary 5. Young People
Religious Identity
and the Internet
Mia Lövheim 6. Religion and the Quest for Virtual Community
Lorne L. Dawson Part II: Mainstream Religions in Cyberspace 7. Reading and Praying Online: The Continuity of Religion Online and Online Religion in Internet Christianity
Glenn Young 8. This Is My Church: Seeing the Internet and Club Culture as Spiritual Spaces
Heidi Campbell 9. Rip.Burn.Pray.: Islamic Expression Online
Gary R. Bunt 10. The Cybersangha: Buddhism on the Internet
Charles S. Prebish Part III: New Religions in Cyberspace 11. New Religions and the Internet: Recruiting in a New Public Space
Lorne L. Dawson and Jenna Hennebry 12. The Internet as Virtual Spiritual Community: Teen Witches in the United States and Australia
Helen A. Berger and Douglas Ezzy 13. The Goddess Net
Wendy Griffin 14. The House of Netjer: A New Religious Community Online
Marilyn C. Krogh and Brooke Ashley Pillifant Part IV: Religious Quests and Contests in Cyberspace 15. Virtual Pilgrimage to Ireland's Croagh Patrick
Mark W. Macwilliams 16. Searching for the Apocalypse in Cyberspace
Robert A. Campbell 17. Contested Spaces: Movement
Countermovement
and E-Space Propaganda
Douglas E. Cowan