Mediating piety
Subtitle: technology and religion in contemporary Asia
By: edited by Francis Khek Gee Lim.
Contributors: Lim, Francis Khek Gee.
Series: Social sciences in Asia -- v. 26; Social sciences in Asia -- v. 26.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9789004178397
Subjects: Religion and science; Technology -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Technology -- Asia; Mass media -- Religious aspects; Asia -- Religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Charismatic technology / Francis Khek Gee Lim; title: Religion in the age of technology; title: Technologies, religion and social mediation / Bryan S. Turner; title: The fate of God in the age of technology / Anton Sevilla; title: Technology, religion and nationalism; title: A message from Ashabirin : high technology and political Islam in Indonesia / Sulfi kar Amir; title: Powerpointing Islam : form and spiritual reform in Reformasi Indonesia / Daromir Rudnyckyj; title: Mediating piety; title: A spectacle of worship : technology, modernity and the rise of the Christian megachurch / Joseph Nathan Cruz; title: The "short-waved faith" : Christian broadcasting and Protestant conversion of the Hmong in Vietnam / Ngo Thi Thanh Tam; title: 'New media', religious discourse, community; title: Shopping for God : media and religion in Singapore / Robin Chee and James Chen; title: The new face of global evangelism : virtualizing spiritual experience / Jayeel Serrano Cornelio; title: Religious ecology on the internet: a case study of Tibetan Buddhism / Low Yuen Wei.