Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Daniel Enstedt , Göran Larsson and Enzo Pace -- Introduction: Religion and Internet / Daniel Enstedt , Göran Larsson and Enzo Pace -- Cyber Sisters: Buddhist Women’s Online Activism and Practice / Emma Tomalin , Caroline Starkey and Anna Halafoff -- Virtualization of Ritual: Consequences and Meaning / Tetske van Dun , Peter Versteeg and Johan Roeland -- Sleepwalkers and Higher Selves: The Mediatisation of Personality and Essence in Online Enneagram Teachings / Daniel Enstedt -- Cyberrapture: The Role of Risk on the Youvebeenleftbehind.com Website / Salvador Jimenez Murguia -- Mediatisation, Empowerment, and Sexual Inclusivity: Homosexual Protestant Activism in Contemporary China / Ping Huang and Shun-hing Chan -- Digital Catholicism: Internet, the Church, and the Vatican Website / Andrew P. Lynch -- The Internet as a Challenge for Traditional Churches: The Case of the Catholic Church in Poland / Sławomir Mandes -- Handling Deficiencies: Conditions, Modes, and Consequences of Using Online Christian Discussion Boards / Anna Neumaier -- Religious Belonging in the Facebook Era: Muslims Online, Young People Offline / Viviana Premazzi and Roberta Ricucci -- Islam Online: A Netnography of Conversion / Khalid Rhazzali -- “Stop Dudley Super Mosque and Islamic Village”: Overview of the Findings from a Pilot Study / Chris Allen -- Muslim Perceptions of Identity, Community, Diversity and Authority in the Internet Age / Franz Volker Greifenhagen -- Index / Daniel Enstedt , Göran Larsson and Enzo Pace.

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While the churches are emptying, other virtual religious places – as the religious websites – seem to be filling up. The researcher focusing on religion and internet or digital religion as an object of study must seek answers to a number of questions. Is computer-mediated religious communication a particular communication process whose object is what we conventionally call religion? Or is it a modern, independent form of religious expressiveness that finds its new-born status in the web and its particular language? To examine the questions above, and others, the book collects more empirical data, claiming that the Internet will have a specific or novel impact on how religious traditions are interpreted. The blurring of previous boundaries (offline/online, virtual/local, illegitimate/legitimate religion) is another theme common to all the contributions in this volume.