Mediatized Spirituality: A Critical Appraisal of the Media-Religion Nexus in Nigeria
Religion in Nigeria is predominantly manifested in three identifiable forms: Christianity, Islam and African Traditional Religion. All three forms, but especially the first two, have in recent years embraced the “media logic,” packaging religious ...
Allwell Okechukwu Nwankwo
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Introduction: Critical Approaches to ‘Religion’ in Japan: Case Studies and Redescriptions
This Special Issue of the online open access journal Religions is entitled “Critical Approaches to ‘Religion’ in Japan: Case Studies and Redescriptions” [...]
Mitsutoshi Horii
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Angels and the Digital Afterlife: Death and Nonreligion Online
This brief article aims to draw the attention of nonreligion researchers to a growing interdisciplinary research field: the study of death online. In digitally networked societies, the dead are remembered online, and their survivors can use digital ...
Tim Hutchings
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Online-Offline in Religion; Observing Islamic Learning Patterns in Online Media
This study aims to unravel the phenomenon of digital society in understanding and learning Islam through the internet. The current human tendency to rely on information available through smartphones has given birth to the reality of shifting learning patterns that do not have to meet directly with the teacher.
Achmad Muhibbin Zuhri, Jauharoti Alfin
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FRAMING NEWS ON RELIGION AND LIVING ENVIRONMENT IN ONLINE MEDIA
In some decades, we have encountered complex and multi-global situation. The crisis has appeared more multifarious, time by time. Some authors and media indicate religion as the crucial factor should be involved to overcome this problem.
Vanesa Bella Sadmego, Muchammad Nasucha
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Virtual Ritual, Real Faith : the Revirtualization of Religious Ritual in Cyberspace [PDF]
Cheryl Anne Casey deals with Practicing Faith in Cyberspace: Conceptions and Functions of Religious Rituals on the Internet. She examines the emerging phenomenon of online religious rituals and their functions for participants in order to illuminate the ...
Casey, Cheryl Anne
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SCIENCE, RELIGION, AND HUMAN IDENTITY: CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE SCIENCE AND RELIGION FORUM
The Science and Religion Forum promotes discussion on issues at the interface of science and religion. The forum membership is diverse including professionals, academics, clergy, and interested lay people and each year it holds a conference to encourage
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Race, Religion and the City: Twitter Word Frequency Patterns Reveal Dominant Demographic Dimensions in the United States [PDF]
Recently, numerous approaches have emerged in the social sciences to exploit the opportunities made possible by the vast amounts of data generated by online social networks (OSNs). Having access to information about users on such a scale opens up a range
Bokányi, Eszter +6 more
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From Nature to iNature. Articulating a Sami Christian Identity Online
The article discusses the activities of both indigenous people and religion online, and introduces the pair of concepts indigeneity-online/online-indigeneity as a means of analysing this activity.
Torjer Olsen
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The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted society in myriad ways, but how the pandemic has changed traditional forms of religion has been relatively understudied.
Ateeq Abdul Rauf
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