@book {336,
	title = {The Globalization of Communications: Some Religious Implications},
	year = {1998},
	publisher = {WCC Publications; World Association for Christian Communication.},
	organization = {WCC Publications; World Association for Christian Communication.},
	address = {Geneva; London},
	keywords = {Church, Communication, Globalization},
	url = {http://www.amazon.com/Globalization-Communications-Some-Religious-Implications/dp/2825412880},
	author = {Arthur, C}
}
@article {1925,
	title = {The vitality of new media and religion: Communicative perspectives, practices, and authority in spiritual organization},
	journal = {New Media and Society},
	volume = {1},
	year = {2016},
	month = {2016},
	pages = {1-8},
	abstract = {It is significant that we are witnessing the growth of a distinct subfield focusing on new media and religion as the relationship between the two is not just important, it is vital. I discuss in this article how this vitality is both figurative and literal in multiple dimensions. Mediated communication brings forth and constitutes the (re)production of spiritual realities and collectivities, as well as co-enacts religious authority. In this way, new mediations serve as the lifeblood for religious organizing and activism. Further research in religious communication will illuminate a richer understanding of digital religion, especially as a globally distributed phenomenon.},
	keywords = {Authority, Communication, convergence, digital media, Globalization, religion, spiritual organizing},
	doi = {10.1177/1461444816649913},
	url = {http://nms.sagepub.com/content/early/2016/05/30/1461444816649913.abstract},
	author = {Cheong, Pauline H.}
}
@book {1247,
	title = {Religion, Media, and Social Change},
	series = {Routledge Research in Religion, Media and Culture},
	year = {2014},
	publisher = {Routledge },
	organization = {Routledge },
	abstract = {In an era of heightened globalization, macro-level transformations in the general socioeconomic and cultural makeup of modern societies have been studied in great depth. Yet little attention has been paid to the growing influence of media and mass-mediated popular culture on contemporary religious sensibilities, life, and practice. Religion, Media, and Social Change explores the correlation between the study of religion, media, and popular culture and broader sociological theorizing on religious change. Contributions devote serious attention to broadly-defined media including technologies, institutions, and social and cultural environments, as well as mass-mediated popular culture such as film, music, television, and computer games. This interdisciplinary collection addresses important theoretical and methodological questions by connecting the study of media and popular culture to current perspectives, approaches, and discussions in the broader sociological study of religion.},
	keywords = {Digital Religion, Globalization, institutions, Online community, religious change, social change, socioeconomic modern societies, sociological study of religion, Technologies},
	url = {http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415742825/},
	author = {Kennet Granholm and Marcus Moberg and Sofia Sj{\"o}}
}
@article {241,
	title = {Virtual Warfare: The Internet as the New Site for Global Religious Conflict},
	journal = {Asian Journal of Social Science},
	volume = {32},
	year = {2004},
	pages = {198-215},
	abstract = {This paper explores the ways in which a resurgent Hindu fundamentalism (Hindutva) is redefining Hinduism and Hindu identities in a transnational, global context. The global project of Hindutva makes use of new global communication channels, including the Internet, and is apparently espoused by influential sections of the transnational Hindu middle class, especially in the United States. This paper examines a selected sample of Internet sites devoted to the spread of religious and fundamentalist beliefs and ideas particularly relevant to India and transnational Hinduism, and explores the ways in which the Internet is changing the shape of communities and the ways in which they represent one another. The paper puts forth the argument that in the context of globalization, the Net has become an important space for the creation of transnational religious identities. The Net is shaping religion, specifically Hinduism, in distinct ways and is the newest expression of religion{\textquoteright}s changing face. The battle for souls is being fought on Internet sites. The questions of this paper relate to the modes of representation of "other religions" as revealed particularly by Hindu sites, the ways in which Internet sites garner audiences, and the strategies they adopt to link themselves with both global audiences and local groups. A sociological analysis will reveal the shape of these discourses and link their popularity with the social and political context of globalization, a liberalized economy, and the organization of religious practice in post 1990s India.
},
	keywords = {Communication, Globalization, Hindu, religion},
	url = {http://www.kamat.com/database/?CitationID=11007},
	author = {Robinson, Rowena}
}
