Religion and Cyberspace

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Summary

Religion and Cyberspace explores how religious individuals and groups are responding to the opportunities and challenges that cyberspace brings.

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Introduction : waves of research	p. 1
Coming to terms with religion and cyberspace	p. 13
The mediation of religious experience in cyberspace	p. 15
Utopian and dystopian possibilities of networked religion in the new millennium	p. 38
Cyber-religion : on the cutting edge between the virtual and the real	p. 50
Religious authority and conflict in the age of the Internet	p. 65
Crossing the boundary : new challenges to religious authority and control as a consequence of access to the Internet	p. 67
Seeking for truth : plausibility alignment on a Baha'i email list	p. 86
A symbolic universe : information terrorism and new religions in cyberspace	p. 102
Constructing religious identities and communities online	p. 119
Constructing religious identity on the Internet	p. 121
Online Buddhist community : an alternative religious organization in the information age	p. 138
Virtual as contextual : a Net news theology	p. 149
Christian Web usage : motives and desires	p. 166
Digital Waco : Branch Davidian virtual communities after the Waco tragedy	p. 180
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