Description
The recently-coined term digital religion refers to the understanding that contemporary religion is practiced in both online and offline contexts, and these contexts intersect with one another. Scholars of digital religion recognize that religion is increasingly influenced and informed by its interactions with computer-mediated, digital technologies, including not only the different manifestations of the internet, but other emerging forms of technology, such as mobile phones and video games.The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion will provide a comprehensive overview of religion as seen and performed through these various media, platforms, and cultural spaces. The text will cover religious engagement with a wide range of digital media forms (including social media, websites, gaming environments, virtual and augmented realities, etc.) and highlight examples of technological engagement and negotiation within the major world religions (i.e. Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism), as well as significant subgroups. And because of the interdisciplinary nature of the field, the Handbook will be led by co-editors representing the fields of religious studies and communications, both with experience in how those disciplines intersect.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction to the Study of Digital ReligionHeidi A. Campbell and Pauline Hope CheongPart I: Religious Engagement with Social Media2. Christianity and Digital Media: Different Traditions and Different AimsStefan Gelfgren3. Buddhism and Digital MediaDaniel Veidlinger4. Islam and Digital ReligionIbrahim N. Abusharif5. Past, Present and Potential Futures of Digital Hinduism ResearchXenia Zeiler6. Digital JudaismOren Golan7. Sikh Digital MediaJasjit Singh8. New Religious Movements and the InternetMargarita Simon Guillory9. Secularism, Atheism and Digital MediaTeemu TairaPart II: Explorations in Religious Community and the Internet10. Digital Contours of the Black Church in North America and Community OnlineErika Gault11. Mosques and churches and technology in Southeast AsiaTan Meng Yoe12. Religion and Online Community in African ContextsBala A. Musa and Agnes Lucy Lando13. Digital Diasporas and The Religious Reproduction Of "Home"Orlando WoodsPart III: Performing Religious Identity Online14. Navigating Religious Identity and Embodiment in Digital GamesJohn W. Borchert15. Gender and Agency in Digital ReligionMia Lövheim16. Hidden Religious Identities Online: Digital Religion and LGBTQIA+ IndividualsRuth Tsuria17. Islam, Digital Media, and IdentityFazlul Rahman18. Muslims Enacting Identity: Gender Through Digital MediaEva F. Nisa19. Digital Materiality in Protestant Evangelical ChristianityRobbie B. H. GohPart IV: Questions of Religious Authority in Digital Contexts20. Authority and Communication: Dialectical Tensions and Paradoxes in Religious OrganizingPauline Hope Cheong21. Approaching Religious Authority Through the Rise of New Leadership Roles OnlineHeidi A. Campbell22. Challenges in Jewish Communities OnlineChen Sabag-Ben Porat, Hananel Rosenberg, and Menahem Blondheim23. Mediatization and Religious Authority in ScandinaviaHenrik Reintoft Christensen24. Religious Populism in the Digital AgeMagali do Nascimento Cunha25. Religious Authority and Participatory Social Action in Indian NetworksBenson RajanPart V: Virtue Formation and Ethical Considerations about Technology26. Value Formations through Digital GamingGregory Price Grieve, Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, and Xenia Zeiler27. Building Virtue Through App Cultures: How Do Digital Religions Provide the Resources as Ideological, Social, and Transcendent Contexts?Sarah A. Schnitker28. Bible Reading and Interpretation in a Digital AgePeter M. Phillips29. Considering Religious Education and Online Pedagogy: The (Trans)Formative Potential of Theological Higher EducationKutter Callaway, Tommy Lister, and Sara WellsPart VI: Religious Reflections on Emerging Technology and Our Digital Future30. Digital Religion: A Methodological ApproachJohanna Sumiala31. Theoretical Approaches in Digital Religion StudiesGiulia Evolvi32. Posthumanism and Digital ReligionOliver Krüger33. Robots, Ethics, and Digital Religion: Initial ConsiderationsSimon Balle and Charles Ess34. Death, Religion, and Digital MediaMaggi Savin-Baden35. Pocket Memorials: Digital Death and the SmartphoneCandi K. Cann36. Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and ReligionMohammad Yaqub Chaudhari37. Digital Religion Futures: Propositions and Complexities in the Now and Not YetPauline Hope Cheong and Heidi A. Campbell
