@inbook {191,
	title = {CyberFaith: How Americans Pursue Religion Online},
	booktitle = {Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet},
	year = {2004},
	pages = {17-22},
	publisher = {Routledge},
	organization = {Routledge},
	address = {New York},
	abstract = {After sex, religion is one of the most popular and pervasive topics of interest online, with over three million Americans turning to the internet each day for religious information and spiritual guidance. Tens of thousands of elaborate websites are dedicated to every manner of expression. 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. The volume also includes the Pew Internet and American Life Project Executive Summary, the most comprehensive and widely cited study on how Americans pursue religion online, and Steven O{\textquoteright}Leary{\textquoteright}s field-defining Cyberspace as SacredSpace.},
	url = {http://books.google.com/books?id=xy0PJrrWXH4C\&pg=PA16\&lpg=PA16\&dq=CyberFaith:+How+Americans+Pursue+Religion+Online\%5C\&source=bl\&ots=ahRdNYG5qO\&sig=pxouYig_5q0zXrshy1fCj7Xzorg\&hl=en\&ei=Yzu4TuvzJuS3sQKYpe3pAw\&sa=X\&oi=book_result\&ct=result\&resnum=7\&ved=0CEMQ},
	author = {Larsen, Elena}
}
@article {190,
	title = {CyberFaith: How Americans Pursue Religion Online},
	year = {2001},
	abstract = {The 25\% of Internet users who have searched online for religious information parallel the profile of the American population at large. However, the intensity of religious devotion of {\textquotedblleft}Religion Surfers{\textquotedblright} distinguishes them from the general population. Some 81\% of online Religion Surfers describe their commitment to faith as {\textquotedblleft}very strong,{\textquotedblright} compared to only 19\% of the population as a whole. The top uses of the Internet by Religion Surfers are simply to find information on their own faith or another one. Old-fashioned face-to-face socializing is much more appealing to Religion Surfers than tech-aided interactions with others that are related to faith. In our sample of 500 Religion Surfers, 9\% of them had looked for religious or spiritual information via the Internet on the same day we reached them, 26\% had gone online for such information within the past week, 29\% had made the search within the past month, 26\% had made the search in the past six months and 9\% had performed the search more than six months ago.},
	url = {http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2001/CyberFaith-How-Americans-Pursue-Religion-Online.aspx},
	author = {Larsen, Elena}
}
