TY - CHAP T1 - Internet Ritual: A Case of the Construction of Computer-Mediated Neopagan Religious Meaning T2 - Practicing Religion in the Age of Media Y1 - 2002 A1 - Fernback, Jennifer KW - internet ritual KW - Neopagan KW - religion AB - Increasingly, the religious practices people engage in and the ways they talk about what is meaningful or sacred take place in the context of media culture -- in the realm of the so-called secular. Focusing on this intersection of the sacred and the secular, this volume gathers together the work of media experts, religious historians, sociologists of religion, and authorities on American studies and art history. Topics range from Islam on the Internet to the quasi-religious practices of Elvis fans, from the uses of popular culture by the Salvation Army in its early years to the uses of interactive media technologies at the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Beit Hashoah Museum of Tolerance. The issues that the essays address include the public/private divide, the distinctions between the sacred and profane, and how to distinguish between the practices that may be termed "religious" and those that may not. JF - Practicing Religion in the Age of Media PB - Columbia University Publishing CY - New York UR - http://books.google.com/books?id=9aDg8Ih78QAC&pg=PA254&lpg=PA254&dq=Internet+Ritual:+A+Case+of+the+Construction+of+Computer-Mediated+Neopagan+Religious+Meaning&source=bl&ots=snoOkFzsiG&sig=UjWRGsmRhiRZvf-Xqs9hBNHbTd4&hl=en&ei=Cx24TvCMEoKpsAK42a3eAw&sa=X&o U1 - Stewart Hoover and Lynn S Clark ER -