Religion Online: Finding Faith on the InternetLorne L. Dawson, Douglas E. Cowan 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. |
Contents
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Cyberfaith How Americans Pursue Religion Online | 17 |
Popular Religion and the World Wide Web A Match Made in Cyber Heaven | 23 |
Cyberspace as Sacred Space Communicating Religion on Computer Networks | 37 |
Young People Religious Identity and the Internet | 59 |
Religion and the Quest for Virtual Community | 75 |
Reading and Praying Online The Continuity of Religion Online and Online Religion in Internet Christianity | 93 |
This Is My Church Seeing the Internet and Club Culture as Spiritual Spaces | 107 |
New Religions and the Internet Recruiting in a New Public Space | 151 |
The Internet as Virtual Spiritual Community Teen Witches in the United States and AustraliaY | 175 |
The Goddess Net | 189 |
The House of Netjer A New Religious Community Online | 205 |
Virtual Pilgrimage to Irelands Croagh Patrick | 223 |
Searching for the Apocalypse in Cyberspace | 239 |
Contested Spaces Movement Countermovement and ESpace Propaganda | 255 |
Contributors | 273 |
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