@article {2040,
	title = {Communicating Mixed Messages About Religion through Internet Memes},
	journal = {Information, Communication \& Society},
	volume = {20},
	year = {2017},
	pages = {1458-1520},
	abstract = {This article investigates the dominant messages Internet memes communicate about religion. Internet memes about religion are defined as, {\textquoteleft}memes circulated on the Internet whose images and texts focus on a variety of religious themes and/or religious traditions{\textquoteright} (Bellar et al., 2013). By drawing on meme genres identified by Shifman (2012) and analyzing techniques used to frame ideas concerning religion in memes, this study identifies common genres found amongst religious Internet meme and core frames used to present messages and assumptions about religion online. This article further draws attention to the importance of studying religion in digital contexts, as it highlights trends, recognized by scholars toward {\textquoteleft}Lived Religion{\textquoteright} within digital culture (Campbell, 2012). Lived Religion argues that contemporary media and digital culture provide important resources for presenting popular beliefs about religion. This study also suggests that studying Internet memes about religion provides a useful lens for understanding popular conceptions about religion within mainstream culture.},
	keywords = {digital cultures, internet memes, Lived religion, memes, participatory culture},
	url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2016.1229004},
	author = {Aguilar, A and Campbell, H and Stanley, M and Taylor, E}
}
@book {2060,
	title = {Networked Theology: Negotiating Faith in Digital Culture},
	year = {2016},
	publisher = {Baker Academic},
	organization = {Baker Academic},
	address = {Grand Rapids, MI},
	abstract = {This informed theology of communication and media analyzes how we consume new media and technologies and discusses the impact on our social and religious lives. Combining expertise in religion online, theology, and technology, the authors synthesize scholarly work on religion and the internet for a nonspecialist audience. They show that both media studies and theology offer important resources for helping Christians engage in a thoughtful and faith-based critical evaluation of the effect of new media technologies on society, our lives, and the church.},
	keywords = {digital cultures, Faith, theology},
	issn = {9780801049149},
	url = {http://bakerpublishinggroup.com/books/networked-theology/343270},
	author = {Campbell, H and Garner, S}
}
@article {1195,
	title = {Seeking the Sacred Online: Internet and the Individualization of Religious Life in Quebec},
	journal = {Anthropologica},
	volume = {54},
	year = {2012},
	chapter = {19},
	keywords = {Access to resources, Canada, Contemporary Religious Community, digital cultures, internet, network, New Media and Society, new media engagement, New Technology and Society},
	url = {http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN\&cpsidt=26049890},
	author = {M Deirdre}
}
@mastersthesis {1197,
	title = {Gender, Faith, and Storytelling: An Ethnography of the Charismatic Internet},
	volume = {Ph.D.},
	year = {2012},
	school = {University of Sussex},
	type = {Doctoral Thesis},
	abstract = {Although early predictions that an emerging {\textquoteleft}cyberspace{\textquoteright} could exist in separation from 
offline life have been largely discarded, anthropological studies of the internet have 
continued to find notions of {\textquoteleft}virtual reality{\textquoteright} relevant as individuals use these 
technologies to fulfil the {\textquotedblleft}pledges they have already made{\textquotedblright} (Boellstorff, 2008; Miller \& 
Slater, 2001: 19) about their own selfhood and their place in the world. There are 
parallels between this concept of {\textquoteleft}virtual reality{\textquoteright} and the on-going spiritual labour of 
Charismatic Christians in the UK, who seek in the context of a secularising nation to 
maintain a sense of presence in the {\textquotedblleft}coming Kingdom{\textquotedblright} of God. The everyday 
production of this expanded spiritual context depends to a large extend on verbal genres 
that are highly gendered. For women, declarations of faith are often tied to domestic 
settings, personal narratives, and the unspoken testimony of daily life (e.g. Lawless, 
1988; Griffith, 1997). The technologies of the internet, whose emerging genres 
challenge boundaries between personal and social, public and private, can cast a greater 
illumination on this inward-focused labour. This doctoral thesis is based on 
ethnographic research in four Charismatic Evangelical congregations and examination 
of the online practices of churchgoers. I have found that the use of the internet by 
Charismatic Christian women fits with wider religious preoccupations and patterns of ritual practice. Words posted through Facebook, blogs, Twitter, and other online 
platforms come to resemble in their form as well as their content Christian narratives of 
a life with meaning.},
	keywords = {anthropological studies, Computer, Contemporary Religious Community, cyberspace, declarations of faith, digital cultures, domestic  settings, Evangelic, Faith, GENDER},
	url = {http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/45226/1/Stewart,_Anna_Rose.pdf},
	author = {Stewart, Anna}
}
