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Informationen zum Autor Morten T. Højsgaard is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History of Religions at the University of Copenhagen, and is editor of the journal Den digtale kirke ( The Digital Church ). Margit Warburg is Associate Professor of Sociology of Religion at the University of Copenhagen. Her books include Baha'i (2004) and New Religions and New Religiosity (1998, co-edited with Eileen Barker). Klappentext In the twenty-first century, religious life is increasingly moving from churches, mosques and temples onto the Internet. Today, anyone can go online and seek a new form of religious expression without ever encountering a physical place of worship, or an ordained teacher or priest. The digital age offers virtual worship, cyber-prayers and talk-boards for all of the major world faiths, as well as for pagan organisations and new religious movements. It also abounds with misinformation, religious bigotry and information terrorism. Scholars of religion need to understand the emerging forum that the web offers to religion, and the kinds of religious and social interaction that it enables.Religion and Cyberspace explores how religious individuals and groups are responding to the opportunities and challenges that cyberspace brings. It asks how religious experience is generated and enacted online, and how faith is shaped by factors such as limitless choice, lack of religious authority, and the conflict between recognised and non-recognised forms of worship. Combining case studies with the latest theory, its twelve chapters examine topics including the history of online worship, virtuality versus reality in cyberspace, religious conflict in digital contexts, and the construction of religious identity online. Focusing on key themes in this groundbreaking area, it is an ideal introduction to the fascinating questions that religion on the Internet presents. Zusammenfassung Religion and Cyberspace explores how religious individuals and groups are responding to the opportunities and challenges that cyberspace brings. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction: Waves of Research, Morten T. Højsgaard, Margit Warburg; Part 1 Coming to Terms With Religion and Cyberspace; Chapter 2 The Mediation of Religious Experience in Cyberspace, Lorne L. Dawson; Chapter 3 Utopian and Dystopian Possibilities of Networked Religion in the New Millennium, Stephen D. O’Leary; Chapter 4 Cyber-Religion, Morten T. Højsgaard; Part 2 Religious Authority and Conflict in the Age of the Internet; Chapter 5 Crossing the Boundary, Eileen Barker; Chapter 6 Seeking for Truth, David Piff, Margit Warburg; Chapter 7 A Symbolic Universe, Massimo Introvigne; Part 3 Constructing Religious Identities and Communities Online; Chapter 8 Constructing Religious Identity On the Internet, Mia Lövheim, Alf G. Linderman; Chapter 9 Online Buddhist Community, Mun-Cho Kim; Chapter 10 Virtual As Contextual, Debbie Herring; Chapter 11 Christian Web Usage, Michael J. Laney; Chapter 12 Digital Waco, Mark MacWilliams;...
