Digital religion
Subtitle: based on papers read at the conference arranged by the Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History, Åbo Akademi University, Åbo/Turku, Finland, on 13-15 June 2012
By: edited by Tore Ahlbäck, editorial assistant Björn Dahla
Contributors: Donnerska institutet för religionshistorisk och kulturhistorisk forskning
Series: Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis -- 25; Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis -- 25.
Publisher: Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Åbo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9789521228971
Subjects: Internet; Religious aspects; Digital media
Description: "The theme for our symposium 2012 was 'Digital religion' and in our call for papers we described it in the following way: ''Digital Religion' aims to explore the complex relationship between religion and digital technologies of communication. Digital religion encompasses a myriad of connections and the goal of the conference is to approach the subject from multiple perspectives.'"--Editorial note, p. 5.
Table of contents: title: Television vampire fandom and religion / Minja Blom; title: Digital religion out of the book: the loss of the illusion of the 'original text' and of the notion of a 'religion of the book' / Claire Clivaz; title: Awkward encounters: Orthodox Jewry and the internet / Yoel Cohen; title: Exoteric Theravāda Buddhism in Burma/Myanmar / Niklas Foxeus; title: An instance of secularization? The Finnish online discussion of the issue of same-sex marriages / Jenni Hokka; title: Facebook as a monastic place? The new use of the internet by Catholic monks / Isabelle Jonveaux; title: Studying religious music at the grassroots level? a look into the discourse practices of Christian metal bands online / Henna Jousmäki; title: New religious movements and alternative religions in France: the use of digital media as a counter-strategy against social and legal exclusion / Christiane Königstedt; title: On studying religion, the media and young people / Nina Maskulin; title: Of watchdogs and safe havens: Control mechanisms and/in online sacred spaces / Alexander D. Ornella; title: Sortes virtuales: a comparative approach to digital divination / Jørgen Podemann Sørensen; title: Digital Hajj: The pilgrimage to Mecca in Muslim cyberspace and the issue of religious online authority / Dominik Schlosser; title: Does the 'old' media's coverage of religion matter in times of 'digital religion'? / Teemu Taira; title: The video Three Things About Islam: Islamophobia online or a religious dialogue? / Ruth Tsuria.