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Comunicação, linguagens e religiões: Tendências e perspectivas na pesquisa

Magali do Nascimento Cunha, Letícia Jovelina Storto (org.)

Londrina: Syntagma Editores (2020), 446 pp.

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Digital Hinduism

Xenia Zeiler (ed.)

London; New York: Routledge (2020), 283 pp.

"Digital Religion does not simply refer to religion as it is carried out online, but more broadly studies how digital media interrelate with religious practice and belief. This collection explores Digital Hinduism and consequentially studies how Hinduism is expressed in the digital sphere and how Hi ... more

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Digital Media, Young Adults, and Religion: An International Perspective

Marcus Moberg, Sofia Sjö (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2020), xi, 179 pp.

"Utilising results of an unprecedented global study, this volume explores the ways in which young adults in seven different countries engage with digital and social media in religiously significant ways. Presenting and analysing the findings of the international research project Young Adults and Rel ... more

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The big friendly counter-space? Interreligious encounter within social media

Anna Neumaier

Religion, volume 50, issue 3 (2020), pp. 392-413

"Research on interreligious dialogue mostly focuses on face-to-face meetings, however, it also takes place in other contexts. Among them is the huge space of interactive media, where adherents of different religious traditions meet, e.g., in interreligious groups on Facebook, boards or commentary se ... more

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Christentum medial: Religiöse Kommunikation in digitaler Kultur

Esther Berg-Chan, Markus Luber (eds.)

Regensburg: Pustet (2020), 187 pp.

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Digital Afterlife: Death Matters in a Digital Age

Maggi Savin-Baden, Victoria Mason-Robbie (eds.)

Boca Raton; London; New York: CRC Press (2020), xv, 213 pp.

"The book covers a variety of matters that have been neglected in other research texts, for example: the legal, ethical, and philosophical conundrums of Digital Afterlife; the ways digital media are currently being used to expand the possibilities of commemorating the dead and managing the grief of ... more

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Muslim Online Prayer in a Sociocultural Context

Wael Hegazy

CyberOrient, volume 14, issue 2 (2020), pp. 64-84

"The article argues that the debate over the online prayer is not just an ordinary fatwa issued by religious scholars for the Muslim Ummah, but it rather goes through a complicated process of social, identarian, cultural, authoritative, and transnational caveats. The physicality entailed by this deb ... more

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Social Communication Needs for the Church in Myanmar: Towards an "Online Church"!

Lucia Thandar Aung

Manila: University of Santo Tomas, Master Thesis (2019), xiv, 152 pp.

"Radio Veritas Asia-Myanmar Service (RVA-MS) had been broadcasting socio-political and religious programming in Shortwave (SW) since November 11, 1978. However, on 30 June 2018, RVA stopped broadcasting in SW and migrated to the internet-based multiplatform broadcasting along with the use of Social ... more

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Mediatized Religion in Asia: Studies on Digital Media and Religion

Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Xenia Zeiler (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2019), xv, 231 pp.

"This edited volume discusses mediatized religion in Asia, examining the intensity and variety of constructions and processes related to digital media and religion in Asia today. Individual chapters present case studies from various regions and religious traditions in Asia, critically discussing the ... more

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Christian Ethics for a Digital Society

Kate M. Ott

Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield (2019), xi, 177 pp.

"Instead of just worrying about the next technological gadget or app, it s time we consider what Christianity has to offer a world increasingly reimagined in a digital landscape. This book provides a new perspective on how to assess digital technology use, development, and expansion through a lens o ... more

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Les anges au portail du web: L'ange entre ciel et terre, des religions au numérique

Odette Barbero, Dominique Chabert

Paris: L'Harmattan (2019), 142 pp.

"A l’ère du numérique, séraphins, chérubins et autres figures angéliques peuplent toujours notre imaginaire. Les images de ces êtres pourtant invisibles se multiplient : ils sont présents dans les religions traditionnelles, dans l’ésotérisme de néo-spiritualités et classiquement repr� ... more

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Anthropological Perspectives on the Religious Uses of Mobile Apps

Jacqueline H. Fewkes (ed.)

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), 248 pp.

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Priests in Nigeria and the Use of Social Media

Gerald Mamman Musa

Journal of Inculturation Theology, volume 16, issue 1 (2019), pp. 116-130

"The Church should continually take advantage of the on-going digital revolution to advance her goals cf propagating the good news and salvation' of souls (salus animarum). Priests have a responsibility to explore the potentials of social media in realizing the objectives of new evangelization. Usin ... more

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The Bible and Digital Millennials

David G. Ford, Joshua L. Mann, Peter M. Phillips

Milton: Routledge (2019), xi, 126 pp.

"Explores the place of the Bible in the lives of 18 to 35 year-olds who have been born into the digital age. As the use of digital media becomes increasingly pervasive, it should follow that it will have a significant effect on people’s engagement with religion and the sacred texts associated with ... more

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An Introduction to Religious Pluralism in Sri Lanka

Sulochana Peiris

Colombo: Internews (2019), 39 pp.

"While the first chapter looks at the existing constitutional and legal provisions for the exercise of freedom of religion and religious plurality, the other four chapters reflect upon some of the key sites of religious interface and syncretism that promote inter-religious understanding and pluralit ... more

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Reading, Feeling, Believing: Online Testimonies and the Making of Evangelical Emotion

Suzanne van Geuns

Journal of Contemporary Religion, volume 34, issue 1 (2019), pp. 97-115

"A personal relationship with God is central to Evangelical belief. It unfolds as believers interpret internal sensations as coming from outside—from God. How does the formulaic design of testimonies present the audience with a personal relationship with God as a pursuit that is both feasible and ... more

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Contextualizing Current Digital Religion Research on Emerging Technologies

Heidi A. Cambell, Giula Evolvi

Human Behavior and Ermerging Technologies, volume 2, issue 1 (2019), pp. 5-17

"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 material religious practices in contemporary culture, and the imp ... more

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Quranic App Practices Among Multilingual Muslim Youth in Denmark

Line Møller Daugaard

Apples – Journal of Applied Language Studies, volume 13, issue 4 (2019), pp. 43-69

"This article sheds light on a set of religious literacy practices which have so far received very little scientific attention, namely ‘quranic app practices’. Quranic app practices are conceptualized as ways of engaging with the Quran through religious apps on smartphones or tablets. The articl ... more

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Gott und die digitale Revolution

Severin J. Lederhilger (ed.)

Regensburg: Pustet (2019), 230 pp.

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Online Catholic Communities: Community, Authority, and Religious Individualization

Marta Kolodziejska

Milton: Routledge (2018), viii, 141 pp.

"Using the top three online forums used by Polish Catholics as a case study, this project explores the formation of these online communities. It then looks at the alternative authority structures that emerge online and how these lead to an individualised form of religious engagement that can develop ... more