@book {354,
	title = {The digital divide: Poverty and Wealth in the Information Age},
	year = {2000},
	publisher = {Wellington},
	organization = {Wellington},
	address = {Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand},
	keywords = {information, Poverty},
	url = {http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Digital_Divide.html?id=2a4ZLgAACAAJ},
	author = {Caritas Aotearoa and Louise May}
}
@book {132,
	title = {TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information},
	year = {1998},
	publisher = {Random House},
	organization = {Random House},
	address = {New York},
	abstract = {"A most informative account of a culture whose secular concerns continue to collide with their supernatural flip-side."--"Voice Literary Supplement" In this dazzling book, writer and cyber guru Erik Davis demonstrates how religious imagination, magical dreams and millennialist fervor have always permeated the story of technology. Through shamanism to Gnosticism, voodoo to alchemy, Buddhism to evangelism, "TechGnosis" peels away the rational shell of infotech to reveal the utopian dreams, alien obsessions and apocalyptic visions that populate the ongoing digital revolution. Erik Davis{\textquoteright} work has appeared in "Wired," "The Village Voice" and "Gnosis," and he has lectured internationally on technoculture and new forms of religion. He is a fifth-generation Californian who currently lives in San Francisco.},
	keywords = {information, magic, myth, technology},
	author = {Davis, Erik}
}
@book {136,
	title = {The Soul in Cyberspace},
	year = {1997},
	publisher = {Hourglass Books/Baker Books},
	organization = {Hourglass Books/Baker Books},
	address = {Grand Rapids, MI},
	abstract = {This book evaluates the emerging technologies of cyberspace in relation to their effects on our society and souls, and deals especially with the potential pitfall of becoming informationally rich but spiritually deprived.},
	keywords = {cyberspace, information, Soul, spiritual deprivation},
	author = {Groothuis, Douglas}
}
@article {330,
	title = {Exploring the religious frameworks of the digital realm: Offline-Online-Offline transfers of ritual performance},
	journal = {Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology},
	volume = {1},
	year = {2007},
	abstract = {Looking at the constantly growing field of religion online, the shifts in and the new definition of religious frameworks become an increasingly important topic. In the field of religious rituals, it is not only the participant, location and conduction of the ritual that is affected by this shift; also the researchers have to overthrow their former theologically resp. systemic based definition of religiousness and spirituality due to the fact that on the Internet, religion is defined and realized in a completely different way by its participants. This is true even in the field of Christianity as the example of a ritual created by some British {\quotedblbase}Emerging Church{\textquotedblleft} groups shows. 
These loosely defined groups which span all denominational borders of the Christian spectrum have been established since the late 1980s mainly in the UK in order to organize church services they refer to as {\quotedblbase}Alternative Worship{\textquotedblleft}. The Internet plays an important role as a platform of communication and (self-)organization of the members and as technically and aesthetically challenging means of (re)presentation. Some events that were conducted in real life, like the multimedia labyrinth installation in St Paul{\textquoteleft}s cathedral in 2000, have even been {\quotedblbase}reconstructed{\textquotedblleft} in virtual space , generating a new form of worship. 
Interestingly but not unexpectedly, these transfer processes entail consequences for spirituality in real life. What exactly happens during the transfer into the digital realm? What are the interdependencies between offline and online and how do they affect worship and worshippers? These questions will be followed, employing the results and ideas of modern Ritual and Religious Studies, sheding light on a new field of (post)modern Christianity.
},
	keywords = {Communication, information, methodology, Ritual, study of religion, technology},
	url = {http://www.digitalislam.eu/article.do?articleId=1703},
	author = {Heidbrink , S}
}
@article {611,
	title = {The Death of a Virtual Muslim Discussion Group: Issues and Methods in Analysing Religion on the Net },
	journal = {Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet },
	volume = {1},
	year = {2005},
	abstract = {In his article, G{\"o}ran Larsson analzyes Islamic online discussion group. All the suggested approaches are tested against data taken from the largest Swedish Muslim discussion group, Sveriges F{\"o}renade CyberMuslimer (SFCM). },
	keywords = {communication technology, forum, information, methodology, Muslim minorities, Sweden},
	url = {http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/frontdoor.php?source_opus=5825},
	author = {Larsson, G.}
}
@book {236,
	title = {Shifting Realities: Information Technology and the Church},
	year = {1997},
	publisher = {WCC Publications},
	organization = {WCC Publications},
	address = {Geneva},
	abstract = {Information technology is changing the world in ways that profoundly affect us whether or not we ever use a computer. While some Christians greet these developments with enthusiasm and others with alarm, most seem to regard them with uncertainty and ambivalence. The author describes how churches are discovering ecumenical applications of new technologies, and explores the relation between Christian understandings of the "Word" and contemporary information technologies; the "underside" of information technology (threats to privacy and the availability of hate literature and pornography on the Internet); and what all this does to our perceptions of reality and the way the Christian gospel is communicated today.

},
	keywords = {Church, information, technology},
	url = {http://books.google.com/books/about/Shifting_realities.html?id=U2oQAQAAIAAJ},
	author = {Lochhead, David}
}
@article {1300,
	title = {Investigating religious information searching through analysis of a search engine log},
	journal = {Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology},
	year = {2013},
	abstract = {In this paper we present results from an investigation of religious information searching based on analyzing log files from a large general-purpose search engine. From approximately 15 million queries, we identified 124,422 that were part of 60,759 user sessions. We present a method for categorizing queries based on related terms and show differences in search patterns between religious searches and web searching more generally. We also investigate the search patterns found in queries related to 5 religions: Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, and Judaism. Different search patterns are found to emerge. Results from this study complement existing studies of religious information searching and provide a level of detailed analysis not reported to date. We show, for example, that sessions involving religion-related queries tend to last longer, that the lengths of religion-related queries are greater, and that the number of unique URLs clicked is higher when compared to all queries. The results of the study can serve to provide information on what this large population of users is actually searching for.},
	keywords = {Buddhism, Christianity, Digital, Hinduism, information, Islam, Judaism, queries, religion, search behavior, search engine},
	url = {http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.22945/abstract?deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=\&userIsAuthenticated=false},
	author = {Rita Wan-Chik and Paul Clough and Mark Sanderson}
}
