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Religion and Spirituality in Online Suicide Bereavement

Crisis, 2014
Background: Religion and spirituality can be valuable resources in coping with bereavement. There is a paucity of studies focusing specifically on their role in suicide bereavement, although there are indications that religion/spirituality can be helpful for suicide survivors. Aims: The study explores the role of religion and/or spirituality in suicide
Karolina Krysinska   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Religion and Online Community in African Contexts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Abstract Spirituality and religion define the African worldview and lifeworld. From time immemorial, community and religion have been the driving forces that have shaped African culture. This chapter looks at how new media communications interface with religion and community.
Bala A. Musa, Agnes Lucy Lando
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Religion Online

2019
Religion Onlineprovides new insights about religiosity in a contemporary context, offering a comprehensive look at the intersection of digital media, faith communities, and practices of all sorts. Recent research on Apple users, video games, virtual worlds, artificial intelligence, digital music, and sports as religion supports the idea that media
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Online Religion and Religion Online: Reform Judaism and Web-Based Communication

Journal of Media and Religion, 2014
This study examines the online communication practices of American congregations associated with the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ), the governing body of American and Canadian Reform congregations, through a content analysis of 252 American URJ congregational Web sites.
Jonathon K. Frost, Norman E. Youngblood
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Online discourses of ‘homosexuality’ and religion

Journal of Language and Sexuality, 2022
AbstractThis article examines Finnish online forum discussions where religion and discourses of ‘homosexuality’ are connected in various ways. Previous research (e.g.Jantunen 2018a) shows that in Finnish online discussions where sexual minorities are the topic, religion stands out as a significant feature – particularly in discourses on ‘homosexuality’.
Jantunen, Jarmo Harri, Kytölä, Samu
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The Role of Religion in Online Pro-social Lending

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
The Internet has long been argued to have “flattened” the world. However, a variety of work has shown that frictions do remain, deriving from biases and preferences tied to individual-level differences, e.g., cultural, demographic, and geographic.
Amin Sabzehzar   +3 more
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What it takes to be religious: Religion online vs. online religion1

Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, 2023
How individuals live their religion has been one of the most frequently studied areas of social sciences in recent years. The starting point of this study is based on the observation that people who describe themselves as religious have different ways of using social media platforms in relation to their religious beliefs.
Filiz Çömez-Polat, Göklem Tekdemir
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