@inbook {342, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Where the Zeroes Meet the Ones{\textquotedblright}: Exploring the Affinity between Magic and Computer Technology{\textquotedblright}}, booktitle = {Religions of Modernity: Relocating the Sacred to the Self and the Digital}, year = {2010}, pages = {219-238}, publisher = {Brill}, organization = {Brill}, address = {Leiden}, keywords = {alternative religion online, technopaganism}, author = {Aupers, Stef and Aupers, Stef and Houtman, Dick} } @book {341, title = {Religions of Modernity: Relocating the Sacred to the Self and the Digital}, series = {International Studies in Religion and Society}, volume = {12}, year = {2010}, publisher = {Brill}, organization = {Brill}, address = {Leiden}, keywords = {religion and internet, Sociology of religion}, author = {Aupers, Stef and Houtman, Dick} } @inbook {343, title = {Cybergnosis: Technology, Religion, and the Secular}, booktitle = {Religion: Beyond a Concept}, year = {2008}, pages = {687-703}, publisher = {Fordham University Press}, organization = {Fordham University Press}, address = {New York}, keywords = {alternative religion online, internet and religion}, author = {Aupers, Stef and Houtman, Dick and Pels, Peter and De Vries, Hent} } @article {346, title = {Mass Media and Religious Identity: A Case Study of Young Witches}, journal = {Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion }, volume = {48}, year = {2009}, pages = {501-514}, chapter = {501}, keywords = {alternative religion online, identity, teen witches}, author = {Berger, Helen and Douglas Ezzy} } @article {347, title = {Witchcraft: Changing Patterns of Participation in the Early Twenty-First Century}, journal = {The Pomegranate}, volume = {11}, year = {2009}, pages = {165-180}, chapter = {165}, abstract = {There are indications that the phenomenal growth of Witchcraft and Paganism during the late twentieth and early twenty-first century may be slowing, based on statistics from selected search engines, websites, and blogs. In particular, inquisitive inquiry about contemporary Witchcraft{\textemdash} that is, those who are not Witches but are looking for information about it, such as seekers, dabblers, researchers, students doing term papers, and newspaper reporters{\textemdash}has declined since 2004. This decline, however, does not indicate that the religion is {\textquotedblleft}dying out{\textquotedblright} because while the rate of increase has slowed it has not been eliminated; and of greater import, community networking appears to have remained stable, or possibly to have increased. Community networking can be seen in the use of Internet sites to share information about Witchcraft, upcoming rituals, or books and teachers, those participating in dialogue, or using the Internet as part of their spiritual work or for communications between coven meetings, or with coven members who are unable to attend. The statistics suggest that contemporary Witchcraft and Paganism may be in a period of change, in which there is a consolidation of membership with a slowing of the rate of new members, particularly among the young. Community building on the Internet continues to be important, but the intensity appears to be lessening, with indications of more people {\textquotedblleft}posting{\textquotedblright} but doing so less frequently. We suggest that this indicates that Witchcraft is now entering a new phase of consolidation with less intense participation by members.}, keywords = {alternative religion online, paganism online}, author = {Douglas Ezzy and Berger, Helen} } @inbook {340, title = {Alternative Worlds: Metaphysical Questing and Virtual Community amongst the Otherkin}, booktitle = {{\textellipsis} Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on the Sacred. Collected Essays. With an Introduction by Victoria Barker}, year = {2006}, pages = {275-287}, keywords = {alternative religion online, Otherkin}, url = {http://escholarship.library.usyd.edu.au/journals/index.php/SSR/article/view/259/238}, author = {Kirby, Danielle and Di Lauro, Frances} } @inbook {344, title = {Digital Apocalypse: The Implicit Religiosity of the Millennium Bug Scare}, booktitle = {Religions of Modernity: Relocating the Sacred to the Self and the Digital}, year = {2010}, pages = {239-259}, publisher = {Brill}, organization = {Brill}, address = {Leiden}, keywords = {Implicit religion, millennium bug}, author = {Karen P{\"a}rna and Aupers, Stef and Houtman, Dick} } @article {339, title = {Alternative spiritualities, new religious movements and Jediism in Australia}, journal = {Australian Religion Studies Review}, volume = {16}, year = {2003}, pages = {69-86}, abstract = {Perhaps the first academic article to discuss the hyper-real/fiction-based religion Jediism which is based on the Star Wars movies and primarily organised online.}, keywords = {alternative religion online, hyper-real religion, Jediism}, author = {Adam Possamai} } @book {338, title = {Religion and Popular Culture. A Hyper-Real Testament}, series = {Gods, Humans and Religions}, volume = {7}, year = {2005}, publisher = {P. I. E. Peter Lang}, organization = {P. I. E. Peter Lang}, address = {Brussel}, author = {Adam Possamai} } @inbook {345, title = {Silicon Valley New Age: The Co-Constitution of the Digital and the Sacred}, booktitle = {Religions of Modernity: Relocating the Sacred to the Self and the Digital}, year = {2010}, pages = {161-185}, publisher = {Brill}, organization = {Brill}, address = {Leiden}, keywords = {New Age, religon and technology}, author = {Zandbergen, Dorien and Aupers, Stef and Houtman, Dick} }