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Der neue Gott: Künstliche Intelligenz und die menschliche Sinnsuche
Freiburg et al.: Herder (2025), 176 pp.
"Ist Künstliche Intelligenz der neue Gott des digitalen Zeitalters? In diesem tiefgründigen Essay entfaltet Claudia Paganini eine philosophisch brisante These: Erstmals erschafft der Mensch einen Gott, statt ihn nur zu denken. Die KI übernimmt zunehmend, was einst der Religion vorbehalten war: Si
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Commodification of Spirituality and the Spiritual Healers’ Labor on Facebook
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 1405-1425
"Facebook is home to a plethora of spiritual healers who use the social media platform for giving advice, selling products, and offering their services. In this ethnographic study, we examine the Facebook endeavors of Estonian spiritual healers. The study discusses the different forms of commodified
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The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion
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New York: Oxford University Press (2024), xiii, 661 pp.
"Digital Religion refers to the contemporary practice and understanding that religion takes place in both online and offline contexts, and how these contexts intersect with each other. Scholars in this growing field of Digital Religion studies recognize that religion has been influenced by its engag
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Ecclesiology for a Digital Church: Theological Reflections on a New Normal
London: SCM Press (2022), xviii, 180 pp.
"This volume contains a collection of 12 chapters discussing the theme of the book, which focuses on the COVID-19 pandemic and the implications that this crisis holds for the church in the future. The main matter being examined in this book is the ecclesiological challenges and opportunities present
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Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds
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Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2nd ed. (2022), xii, 294 pp.
"This book offers a critical and systematic survey of the study of religion and digital media. It covers religious engagement with a wide range of digital media forms and highlights examples of new media engagement in all five of the major world religions. From mobile apps and video games to virtual
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The Value of Spiritual Conversation in the Digital Age
Ignaziana: Rivista di Ricerca Teologica, volume 31 (2021), pp. 75-111
"This study opened its first part analyzing the current digital communication culture with the question of how authentic communication is possible, in line with Pope Francis’ particular sense of pastoral care and outlook, for today’s digital environment. It found that the digital communication c
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Theologie und Digitalität: Ein Kompendium
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Freiburg; Basel; Wien: Herder (2021), 524 pp.
"Die Beiträge des umfangreichen Handbuchs sondieren die verschiedenen Facetten und Bedeutungen der digitalen Revolution: die Kultur der Digitalität (Ethik, Ästhetik, öffentlicher Raum, Gesellschaftspolitik), die theologisch-anthropologische Dimension (Personsein, Identität, Menschenbild, existe
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Sacred Texts and Digital Culture
Postscripts, volume 12, issue 1 (2021), 146 pp.
The Bible, Social Media, and Digital Culture
New York: Routledge (2020), 129 pp.
"This book [...] examines the shift from a propositional to a therapeutic approach to faith from a sociological standpoint. The book covers two research projects in particular: the Twitter Gospels and Online Moralistic Therapeutic Deism. It explores the data as it relates to Abby Day's concept of pe
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Muslim Online Prayer in a Sociocultural Context
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
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The Bible and Digital Millennials
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
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Mediatized Religion in Asia: Studies on Digital Media and Religion
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
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The Emergence of Prophetic Ministries in Botswana: Self-Positioning and Appropriation of New Media
Journal of Contemporary African Studies, volume 36, issue 3 (2018), pp. 369-385
"In the past two decades or so, Botswana has witnessed a spectacular growth of prophetic Christianity and experienced a media revolution through the emerging use of new media. While studies have generally focused on either the growth of Pentecostal Charismatic Christianity or the new media revolutio
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New Media and the Mediatisation of Religion: An African Perspective
Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2018), xi, 173 pp.
From Indra's Net to Internet: Communication, Technology, and the Evolution of Buddhist Ideas
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press (2018), x, 273 pp.
"In this sweeping and ambitious intellectual history, Daniel Veidlinger traces the affinity between Buddhist ideas and communications media back to the efflorescence of Buddhism in the Axial Age of the mid-first millennium BCE. He uses both communications theory and the idea of convergent evolution
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Buddhism, the Internet, and Digital Media: The Pixel in the Lotus
New York: Routledge, paperback ed. (2018), viii, 232 pp.
"Contributors consider the ways Buddhism plays a role and is present in digital media through a variety of methods including concrete case studies, ethnographic research, and content analysis, as well as interviews with practitioners and cyber-communities. In addition to considering Buddhism in the
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Digital Culture and Religion in Asia
London: Routledge (2017), 129 pp.
Creating Church Online: Ritual, Community and New Media
New York: Routledge (2017), 264 pp.
"Creating Church Online constructs a rich ethnographic account of the diverse cultures of online churches, from virtual worlds to video streams. This book also outlines the history of online churchgoing, from its origins in the 1980s to the present day, and traces the major themes of academic and Ch
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E o verbo se fez rede: Religiosidades em reconstrução no ambiente digital
São Paulo: Paulinas (2017), 400 pp.
"O ambiente digital emerge como um novo lócus religioso e teológico. Formam-se novas modalidades de percepção, de experiência e de expressão do "sagrado" em novos ambientes comunicacionais. E as práticas sociais no ambiente on-line, a partir de lógicas midiáticas, complexificam o fenômeno
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E o verbo se fez rede: Uma análise da circulaçao do "católico" em redes comunicacionais online
Sao Leopoldo: Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, Doctoral Thesis (2016), 498 pp.
"Esta tese analisa como se organizam os processos midiáticos de circulação do “católico” em redes comunicacionais online, que emergem em plataformas sociodigitais, como Facebook e Twitter. A análise se dá por meio de um estudo de casos múltiplos, articulado com gestos de lurking e entrevi
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