Digital religion, social media, and culture:perspectives, practices, and futures

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Cheong Pauline Hope 1977-
Published: P. Lang,
Publisher Address: New York
Publication Dates: c2012.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Digital formations ; v. 78
Subjects:
Carrier Form: xii, 326 p.: ill. ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 9781433114755 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1433114755 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781433114748 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1433114747 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781453905692 (e-book)
1453905693 (e-book)
Index Number: TP3
CLC: TP3-05
Call Number: TP3-05/D574
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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