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Here's my chapter contribution entitled "Is Virtual Baptism a 'Real' Baptism?" in Technology and Theology ed. William Anderson (Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2020), 149-167. (for educational purposes e-copy email: jparceno@gmail.com) ---... more
This article encourages researchers of religion, media and culture to develop new, global, comparative conversations about the meaning and purpose of public scholarship. Key terms like “religion”, “media”, “publicness” and “scholarship”... more
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The Introduction to this book is available here: https://www.academia.edu/34095644/Introduction_to_Materiality_and_the_Study_of_Religion_The_Body_of_St_Cuthbert.pdf Material culture has emerged in recent decades as a significant... more
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, religious services worldwide were forced to migrate online. This phenomenon is still yet to be properly investigated, especially in the context of religious and ethnic minorities: a research gap that this... more
This article explores the integration of the mobile phone into the religious experience of Christians in Nigeria. Based on the results of an online survey and the author’s observation, it argues that the mobile phone has become an actant... more
This article provides an overview of the study of religion and gaming by outlining the dominant approaches, development and themes in this new interdisciplinary field of inquiry. It highlights dominant thematic and methodological... more
My Pilgrims Way, Cyberpilgrimage and ‘Missio Dei’ Srebrenka Kunek PhD (Monash University, Melbourne), MA (Theological Studies), University of Divinity, Melbourne (current), MA (University of Zagreb, Croatia), BA, Hon. (University of... more
Different and divergent facets of human existence are increasingly becoming embodied within a digital domain. The phenomenon relating to the popularity and impact of social media, as an important expression of this new digital world, is... more
Online churches are internet-based Christian communities, pursuing worship, discussion, friendship, support, proselytization, and other key religious goals through computer-mediated communication. Hundreds of thousands of people are now... more
Online Christian communities have been describing themselves as "churches" since the 1980s. [...] This chapter will explore the role of the body in online churches, mapping ways in which online worship relies on, incorporates and... more
İletişim teknolojisinin ulaştığı düzey ve ortaya çıkardığı sonuçlar göz önüne alındığında dijitalleşmenin, muhafazakarlığın kaynağı ve koruyucusu olarak görülen dini dahi dönüştürdüğü müşahede edilmektedir.... more
In many contemporary and popular forms of religious practice, digital technology and the spiritual are inseparable. Ranging from streaming broadcasts of spiritual possessions to screenings of mass prayer conferences in stadiums, spirits... more
Le pratiche religiose nelle città postsecolari possono abitare i luoghi più inaspettati e con la progressiva digitalizzazione delle nostre vite quotidiane internet è diventato uno di questi. Ma può uno spazio sacro esistere su internet?... more
This course introduces students to the study of digital religion from a lived religions perspective. It begins with an examination of the history, concepts and methods of the field, and continues with thematic explorations of digital... more
As a phenomenon that has had overwhelming social, cultural and political influence, the internet has become so embedded in our lives that it is difficult to imagine how we communicated or accessed information before its invention. It is... more
This article provides an overview of contemporary research within the interdisciplinary arc of scholarship known as digital religion studies, in which scholars explore the intersection between emerging digital technologies, lived and... more
Çalışmanın amacı; dinin dijitalleşme sürecinin mobil uyguhı malar boyutunu ortaya koymak, dijital din kavramı çerçevesinde dİ nî mobil uygulamalar hakkında bilgi sunmaktır. Çalışma; dinî mobil uygulamaların kişilerin pratik hayatına ıır... more
From the Introduction: "Part III starts out with a chapter by Tim Hutchings on the contemporary interplay between traditional sacred texts and digital technologies. Hutchings explores how the YouVersion Bible App is transforming the... more
Death and bereavement are particularly interesting areas of study during times of cultural change, life events during which we may expect to see new practices and ideas embraced or resisted. This chapter focuses on the significance of... more
It is significant that we are witnessing the growth of a distinct subfield focusing on new media and religion as the relationship between the two is not just important, it is vital. I discuss in this article how this vitality is both... more
Following a Global Mediatic audience linked to the scandal of the supposed First Human Cloned baby in 2002, the Raelian Movement, an ufologist and charismatic organization founded in 1974 by Claude Vorilhon a.k.a Rael, based all of its... more
“Imagining a Virtual Religious Community: Neo-pagans on the Internet,” Chicago Anthropology Exchange, 7 (1995) 98–132.
The Babylon Bee, a Christian parody and satire website launched in March 2016, has quickly gained attention and a large following amongst Evangelical Christians and communities online. This paper argues that the site promotes a specific... more
Among Indonesia's traditionalist Muslims, anecdotes of saintly marvels (karāma) relating occurrences that contradict reason or human understanding of nature are lodged in everyday conversations. While scholars have noted how recounting... more
This article – framed within digital religion studies – analyzes the online religiousactivities of a non-denominational Christian multisite church, LifePoint Church(LPC). A multisite church is a church with a central... more
When Buddhism fails to live up to the projected promise of its doctrine or past forms, it is often the human nature of its adherents (‘Bad Buddhists’), rather than the content of its teachings (‘Bad Buddhism’), that is blamed. But what if... more
Published in the Journal of Media and Religion: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15348423.2017.1401407
The digital space is understood not as a parallel and antithetical component of one’s lived existentiality but a significant and substantial component of human existence that if ethically considered can be a platform for realizing... more
Today, it is challenging to separate online and offline spaces and activities, and this is also true of digital religion as online and offline religious spaces become blended or blurred. With this background, the article explores the need... more
This article analyses two ‘digital Bibles’, products that allow the user to engage with the Bible through the screen and speakers of his/her mobile phone, tablet or computer. Both products, ‘YouVersion’ and ‘GloBible’, have been created... more
This chapter argues that a deeper understanding of the connection between video games and religion can be made possible by adopting an experiential understanding of both phenomena. My primary interest lies not in discussing institutional... more
The proliferation of social media in China has provided traditional religious authorities with multifarious digital features to revitalise and reinforce their practices and beliefs. However, under the authoritative political system... more
This edited volume deploys digital ethnography in varied contexts to explore the cultural roles of mobile apps that focus on religious practice and communities, as well as those used for religious purposes (whether or not they were... more
Pihlaja, Stephen. (2015) Analysing YouTube interaction: a discourse-centred approach. In Shakkour, S. and E. Arweck (eds.) ‘Digital Methodologies in the Sociology of Religion’. London: Bloomsbury.
Öz Günümüz iletişim teknolojilerinin toplumsal yaşama egemen olduğu çağ, dijital çağ olarak tanımlanmaktadır. Bilgisayar, akıllı telefon, tablet, internet ve benzeri dijital iletişim teknolojilerinin kullanımı ve gittikçe artan işlevleri... more
"Believing in Bits is a guide to why media technologies are magical: they create beliefs, manipulate thoughts, make us see things. After reading this wonderful collection of essays, you realize why the most natural thing about media is... more
Within Religious Education in the Irish post primary sector, there is little evidence of smartphone use for supporting mobile learning. This research aims to address this shortcoming by exploring our experience of smartphone microblogging... more
Yadlin-Segal, A. (2015). Communicating Identity through Religious Internet Memes in the "Tweeting Orthodoxies" Facebook Page. In: H. Campbell (Ed.), Digital Judaism: Jewish Negotiations with Digital Media and Culture (pp. 110-124).... more