New HJRI volume: Aesthetics and the Dimensions of the Senses

The fourth volume of the  Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet came out in December. It is a Special Issue on Aesthetics and the Dimensions of the Senses, ed. by Simone Heidbrink and Nadja Miczek. All 10 essay (and the introduction) is available for free as PDF:

  • Virtual Buddhism: An Analysis of Aesthetics in Relation to Religious Practice within Second Life - Connelly, Louise
  • Virtually Embodying the Field: Silent Online Buddhist Meditation, Immersion, and the Cardean Ethnographic Method - Grieve, Gregory
  • The Politics of Familiarity: Visual, Liturgical and Organisational Conformity in the Online Church - Hutchings, Tim
  • Challenging Stereotypes: Muslim Women's Photographic Self-Representations on the Internet - Piela, Anna
  • Imaging Religious Identity: Intertextual Play among Postmodern Christian Bloggers - Teusner, Paul
  • The Transformation of the Prayer Wall - Zijderveld, Theo
  • (Virtually) been there, (Virtually) done that: Examining the Online Religious Practices of the Hindu Tradition:Introduction - Helland, Christopher
  • Seeing the Divine through Windows: Online Puja and Virtual Religious Experience - Herman, Phyllis K.
  • Vaishnava Cyber-Puja: Problems of Purity and Novel Ritual Solutions - Karapanagiotis, Nicole
  • Hindu Embodiment and the Internet - Scheifinger, Heinz