Digital Religion: The Basics - Softcover

Campbell, Heidi A.; Bellar, Wendi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 036752810X ISBN 13: 9780367528102

Publisher: Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

Digital Religion: The Basics explores how digital media and internet platforms are transforming religious practice in a digital age and the impact this has had on religious culture in contemporary society.

Through exploring six defining characteristics of how religion is acted out online, including multisite reality, convergence practice, networked community, storied identity, shifting authority, and experiential authenticity, the book considers how digital religion both shapes, and is influenced by, religion offline. Questions asked include:

• How is religion being performed and reimagined through digital media and cultures?
• In what ways do the practices of religion online merge or correspond with shifts in perspective taking place in offline religious practice?
• How do the key findings of religion online reflect broader social, cultural, and structural practices observed within mobile, networked society?

With case studies and further readings, Digital Religion: The Basics is a must-read for students wanting to come to grips with how religion is changing and experienced through digital media.

About this title

About the Author

Heidi A. Campbell is Professor of Communication and a Presidential Impact Fellow at Texas A&M University, USA.

Wendi Bellar is a Senior User Experience Researcher at JP Morgan Chase. She previously worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 036752810X
• ISBN 13: 9780367528102
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 178