TY - BOOK AU - Enstedt,Daniel AU - Larsson,Göran AU - Pace,Enzo TI - Religion and internet T2 - Annual review of the sociology of religion SN - 9789004302549 AV - BL37 .R45 2015 U1 - 200.2854678 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Internet KW - Religious aspects KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - 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; Available to subscribing member institutions only N2 - 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004302549 ER -