Digital Religion

Heidi A. Campbell is Professor of Communication, Presidential Impact Fellow, and affiliate faculty in Religious Studies at Texas A&M University, USA. She is also director of the Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture Studies and a founder of Digital Religion studies, which explores how religious belief and practices are performed online and offline in digital culture.Ruth Tsuria is Assistant Professor at the College of Communication and the Arts at Seton Hall University, USA. She has been given an Emerging Scholar Award by Religion in Society and received the inaugural Digital Religion Research Award from the Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture Studies for her contributions to Digital Religion studies.

• 1. Introduction to the Study of Digital Religion PART 1: Themes in the Study of Religion and New Media 2. Religion 3. Ritual 4. Identity 5. Community 6. Authority 7. Embodiment PART 2: Thematic Case Studies 8. Religion: Finding Your True-Self: YouTubing the South Korean Temple Stay A Little Birdie Told Me Something About Religion: Religion on Twitter 9. Rituals: A Case Study in Digital Religion: That Dragon, Cancer Prayer App Rituals: How Islamic Participants Engage with Technological and Religious Affordances in Muslim Pro 10. Identity: #EmptyThePews: Ex-evangelicals identity on Twitter "The Niqab is a Beautiful Extension of My Face": Niqab Adoption as Meta-Conversion in YouTube Lifestreaming Videos 11. Community: Dual Production for Dual Publics: Chabad’s Inward and Outward Online Presence Stillness on the Hillside: Worship Online with British Quakers 12. Authority: The Passive-Aggressive Haredi Campaign against the Smartphone Maintaining and Establishing Authority on Facebook: A Case Study on Catholic Priests 13. Embodiment: Gamified Embodiment Experiences in Indian Video Games The Digital Afterlife PART 3: Reflections on Studying Religion and Digital Media 14. Theoretical Frameworks for Approaching Religion and Digital Media 15. Ethical Issues in the Study of Religion and New Media 16. Theology and the New Media

Praise for the first edition:"Digital Religion is a watershed publication that documents and defines the field, one that will quickly establish itself as an essential teaching text and reference volume. It deftly balances more theoretical overviews with specific case studies rich in needed context and detail. Through its inclusion of work on Buddhist, Hindu, and other non-Western traditions, the book succeeds in the essential goal of providing genuinely global coverage of digital religion." Charles Ess, University of Oslo, Norway"Digital religion is evolving quickly from its creation. This network of scholars analyze in depth how people are finding their spiritual selves and community online." Barry Wellman, University of Toronto, Canada