Digital religion

Digital religion is the practice of religion in the digital world, and the academic study of such religious practice.

History

In the mid-1990s, "cyber-religion" was a term that arose to describe the interface between religion and virtual reality technologies. Most scholars started documenting how religious groups moved worship online and how the religious ritual were performed.[1] By the first decade of the 21st century, the term "digital religion" became more dominant, and has often been studied in terms of religion's developments in the Web 2.0 world.[2] It has tended to also make a distinction between "religion online" (religious practice facilitated by the digital) and "online religion" (religious practice transforms and offers new forms of religiosity in the digital).[3] Today, many of its scholars come from the academic fields of media studies, drawing on theories around new media, as well as anthropology and sociology.[4][5]

References
  1. Tsuria, Ruth; Yadlin-Segal, Aya; Vitullo, Alessandra; Campbell, Heidi A. (2017-04-03). "Approaches to digital methods in studies of digital religion". The Communication Review. 20 (2): 73–97. doi:10.1080/10714421.2017.1304137. hdl:10281/274936. ISSN 1071-4421.
  2. Campbell, Heidi (2012). "The Rise of the Study of Digital Religion". In Campbell, Heidi (ed.). Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds. Routledge. pp. 1–22. ISBN 978-0-415-67610-6.
  3. Helland, Christopher (2001). "Online Religion/Religion Online and Virtual Communitas". In Cowan, Douglas E.; Hadden, Jeffrey K. (eds.). Religion on the Internet: Research Prospects and Promises. Emerald Group Publishing Limited. pp. 205–224. ISBN 978-0-7623-0535-3.
  4. Campbell, Heidi (2010). When Religion Meets New Media. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-27213-6.
  5. Cheong, Pauline Hope; Fischer-Nielsen, Peter; Ess, Charles; Gelfgren, Stefan, eds. (2012). Digital Religion, Social Media, and Culture: Perspectives, Practices, and Futures. P. Lang. ISBN 978-1-4331-1474-8.
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