September 2011

Articles added in August 2011

 

Digital Religion Symposium & Workshop

Heidi Campbell, a professor at Texas A&M University, posted on her blog the most important information about the upcoming Digital Religion Symposium & Workshop she is organizing at her university, including

This event will feature presentations by recognized experts in this area:

Pauline Cheong, Associate Professor of Communication at Arizona State University, presenting her work on authority online especially as they related to Buddhist and Christian engagement with new media

Nabil Echchaibi, Assistant Professor of Mass Communication at University of Colorado-Boulder, presenting on Islam and the Internet and related issues of religious identity negotiation online

Christopher Helland, Associate Professor of Sociology of Religion at Dalhousie University (Canada), presenting on issues of ritual and authenticity related to Buddhist & Hindu online contexts

 

The Fourth volume of Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet

I finally added the articles from the fourth volume of Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet to the list of articles on this site. The volume came out last November and was a Special Issue on Aesthetics and the Dimensions of the Senses. With these ten articles the list includes 225 articles:

 

Gilliam: The Internet is My Religion

When I first heard a few weeks ago about the website "The Internet is My Religion" at internetismyreligion.com I was excited. Now that I watched its content I feel touched, but less enthusiastic.