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Good Reads: More reflections on “Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds"

Submitted by Kyong James Cho on Thu, 03/14/2013 - 13:27

Last month, Wendi Bellar wrote a blog post about Heidi Campbell’s edited book, Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds (2013). The blog post summarized the book’s structure, its content, and assessed its strengths, one of which is its synthesis and presentation of the various themes in the study of digital religion, including ritual, identity, authority, community, and authenticity.

Good Reads: "Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds"

Submitted by Wendi Bellar on Wed, 02/13/2013 - 10:43

"Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds" (Campbell, 2013) offers a comprehensive guide for new students or current scholars interested in studying how religion is lived and experienced in online environments. The book, which is broken up into three sections, explores salient themes in the study of religion and new media, provides examples of recent case studies involving new media while focusing on a variety of religions, and concludes with a frank discussion about the theoretical, ethical, and theological concerns involved in studying digital religion.

Scholar’s Top 5: Pauline Hope Cheong on Religious Authority, Changing Tensions and Challenges

Submitted by Pauline Hope Cheong on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 13:20

Contributions in our new book volume, Digital Religion, Social Media and Culture: Perspectives, Practices and Futures (Peter Lang 2012) , focuses on the communicative possibility of social media and Web 2.0 as it intersects with core religious understandings of identity, community and authority.

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