Digital religion, social media, and culture
Subtitle: perspectives, practices, and futures
By: edited by Pauline Hope Cheong ... [et al.].
Series: Digital formations -- v. 78
Publisher: P. Lang; Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers; Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9781433114755; 9781433114748; 9781453905692
Subjects: Social media; Computer network resources; Christianity and culture; Computers; Information technology; Christianity
Description: 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].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.