Surveying digital religion in China: Characteristics of religion on the Internet in Mainland China

IF 1.8 Q2 COMMUNICATION COMMUNICATION REVIEW Pub Date : 2018-10-02 DOI:10.1080/10714421.2018.1535729
Shengju Xu, Heidi A. Campbell
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ABSTRACT China’s distinct development of the Internet has provided religious populations within its mainland access, allowing them to create practices and resources related to the development of religion online. Yet this phenomenon has been understudied both within the current Chinese research on the Internet and international studies of digital religion online. This article provides an overview of digital religion in the Chinese context by identifying and exploring the main characteristics of Buddhism, Islam, and Protestantism manifest online. This is done by providing an overview of current research and profiling the development of different forms of digital religious expression found in China. Through this we show how the concept of digital religion is manifest in China and how this compares to Western understandings of such practices, and we highlight the unique characteristics defining the Chinese religious digital landscape.
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中国数字宗教调查:中国大陆互联网宗教的特点
摘要中国互联网的独特发展为中国内地的宗教人士提供了访问渠道,使他们能够在网上创建与宗教发展相关的实践和资源。然而,这一现象在当前中国互联网研究和国际在线数字宗教研究中都没有得到充分的研究。本文通过识别和探索佛教、伊斯兰教和新教在网上的主要特征,概述了中国背景下的数字宗教。这是通过概述当前的研究和分析中国不同形式的数字宗教表达的发展来完成的。通过这一点,我们展示了数字宗教的概念在中国是如何体现的,以及与西方对此类实践的理解相比,我们强调了定义中国宗教数字景观的独特特征。
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