Routledge Studies in Religion and Digital Culture
Africana Religion in the Digital Age
1st Edition
By Margarita Simon Guillory
April 05, 2025
This book diversifies the fields of digital religion studies and Africana religious studies by considering the nuanced intersections between digital technologies and the religious experiences of African Americans. While Christianity is a continuous marker of religious identity for many African ...
Performing Atheist Selves in Digital Publics: U.S. Women and Non-Religious Identity Online
1st Edition
By Evelina Lundmark
August 26, 2024
This book considers how the non-religious self is performed publicly online, and how digital culture and technology shapes this process. Building on a YouTube case study with women vloggers, it presents unique empirical data on non-organized atheism in the United States. Lundmark suggests that the ...
Digital Media, Young Adults and Religion: An International Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Marcus Moberg, Sofia Sjö
December 13, 2021
It has become increasingly clear that an adequate understanding of the contemporary processes of social, cultural, and religious change is contingent on an appreciation of the growing impact of social media. Utilising results of an unprecedented global study, this volume explores the ways in which ...
Digital Hinduism
1st Edition
Edited
By Xenia Zeiler
June 30, 2021
Digital Religion does not simply refer to religion as it is carried out online, but more broadly studies how digital media interrelate with religious practice and belief. This collection explores Digital Hinduism and consequentially studies how Hinduism is expressed in the digital sphere and how ...
Online Catholic Communities: Community, Authority, and Religious Individualization
1st Edition
By Marta Kołodziejska
August 14, 2020
The Catholic Church has been moving into a new phase, one where its congregation can choose to meet and practice elements of their own version of their faith on online forums. This new form of congregating allows for an individualised faith to manifest itself outside of the usual church authority ...
Blogging My Religion: Secular, Muslim, and Catholic Media Spaces in Europe
1st Edition
By Giulia Evolvi
June 30, 2020
Religion in Europe is currently undergoing changes that are reconfiguring physical and virtual spaces of practice and belief, and these changes need to be understood with regards to the proliferation of digital media discourses. This book explores religious change in Europe through a comparative ...
Digital Existence: Ontology, Ethics and Transcendence in Digital Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Amanda Lagerkvist
June 30, 2020
Digital Existence: Ontology, Ethics and Transcendence in Digital Culture advances debates on digital culture and digital religion in two complementary ways. First, by focalizing the themes ‘ontology,’ ‘ethics’ and ‘transcendence,’ it builds on insights from research on digital religion in order to ...
Methods for Studying Video Games and Religion
1st Edition
Edited
By Vít Šisler, Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Xenia Zeiler
December 10, 2019
Game studies has been an understudied area within the emerging field of digital media and religion. Video games can reflect, reject, or reconfigure traditionally held religious ideas and often serve as sources for the production of religious practices and ideas. This collection of essays presents a...
Buddhism, the Internet, and Digital Media: The Pixel in the Lotus
1st Edition
Edited
By Gregory Price Grieve, Daniel Veidlinger
February 06, 2018
Buddhism, the Internet and Digital Media: The Pixel in the Lotus explores Buddhist practice and teachings in an increasingly networked and digital era. Contributors consider the ways Buddhism plays a role and is present in digital media through a variety of methods including concrete case studies, ...
Digital Judaism: Jewish Negotiations with Digital Media and Culture
1st Edition
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By Heidi A. Campbell
March 29, 2017
In this volume, contributors consider the ways that Jewish communities and users of new media negotiate their uses of digital technologies in light of issues related to religious identity, community and authority. Digital Judaism presents a broad analysis of how and why various Jewish groups ...