Pub Date : 2018-04-16DOI: 10.1163/25888099-00701011
S. Sjö
{"title":"Profane Parables: Film and the American Dream, written by Matthew Rindge","authors":"S. Sjö","doi":"10.1163/25888099-00701011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25888099-00701011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":142820,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123309151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-10-27DOI: 10.1163/21659214-90000094
Polikarpos Karamouzis, Emmanuel Fokides
This study analyzes the profile of Greek university students who will be teaching courses related to religion when they become practitioners at primary school and high school level, in relation to their views on technology. For this purpose, four factors were examined: religious beliefs, use of technology, attitude towards technology, and their views regarding the use of technology for the dissemination of religious beliefs. The sample comprised of 570 students studying at Departments of Theology and Primary School Education at Greek universities. The data analysis revealed that participants, in general, are not highly religious. Both believers and non-believers seem to have a positive attitude towards technology, which they are willing to use in an educational context. Furthermore, they do not believe that religion and technology contradict each other. The implications of the findings are also discussed.
{"title":"Religious Perceptions and the Use of Technology: Profiling the Future Teachers of Religious Education","authors":"Polikarpos Karamouzis, Emmanuel Fokides","doi":"10.1163/21659214-90000094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21659214-90000094","url":null,"abstract":"This study analyzes the profile of Greek university students who will be teaching courses related to religion when they become practitioners at primary school and high school level, in relation to their views on technology. For this purpose, four factors were examined: religious beliefs, use of technology, attitude towards technology, and their views regarding the use of technology for the dissemination of religious beliefs. The sample comprised of 570 students studying at Departments of Theology and Primary School Education at Greek universities. The data analysis revealed that participants, in general, are not highly religious. Both believers and non-believers seem to have a positive attitude towards technology, which they are willing to use in an educational context. Furthermore, they do not believe that religion and technology contradict each other. The implications of the findings are also discussed.","PeriodicalId":142820,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125944133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-10-27DOI: 10.1163/21659214-90000097
K. Linden
{"title":"Review of \"Digital Orthodoxy in the Post-Soviet World\", edited by Mikhail Suslov","authors":"K. Linden","doi":"10.1163/21659214-90000097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21659214-90000097","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":142820,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133785647","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-10-27DOI: 10.1163/21659214-90000096
Damian Guzek
{"title":"Review of \"Catholic Communities Online\", edited by Miriam Diez Bosch, Joseph Lluís Micó and Joseph Maria Carbonell","authors":"Damian Guzek","doi":"10.1163/21659214-90000096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21659214-90000096","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":142820,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116756967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-10-27DOI: 10.1163/21659214-90000098
Jaime Wright
{"title":"Review of Fiction, Invention and Hyper-reality: From popular culture to religion","authors":"Jaime Wright","doi":"10.1163/21659214-90000098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21659214-90000098","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":142820,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129440089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-10-27DOI: 10.1163/21659214-90000092
Tim Hutchings
We're about to relaunch with a new publisher, a new society partner and a new website. Read on to find out more!
我们将与新的出版商、新的社会合作伙伴和新的网站一起重新启动。继续往下读，了解更多!
{"title":"Introduction: Big Changes at the Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture","authors":"Tim Hutchings","doi":"10.1163/21659214-90000092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21659214-90000092","url":null,"abstract":"We're about to relaunch with a new publisher, a new society partner and a new website. Read on to find out more!","PeriodicalId":142820,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133431232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-05-16DOI: 10.1163/21659214-90000095
Yanshuang Zhang
The proliferation of social media in China has provided traditional religious authorities with multifarious digital features to revitalise and reinforce their practices and beliefs. However, under the authoritative political system different religions pick up the new media to varying degrees, thereby showing different characteristic and style in their social media use. This paper examines the public discourse about Buddhism and Christianity (two of the great official religions in China) on China’s largest microblogging platform-Sina Weibo, and seeks to reveal a distinct landscape of religious online public in China. Through a close look at the social media posts aided by a text analytics software- Leximancer , this paper comparatively investigates several issues related to the Buddhism and Christianity online publics, such as religious networks, interactions between involved actors, the economics and politics of religion, and the role of religious charitable organizations. The result supports Campbell’s proposition on digital religion that religious groups typically do not reject new technologies, but rather undergo a sophisticated negotiation process in accord with their communal norms and beliefs. It also reveals that in China a secular Buddhism directly contributes to a prosperous ‘temple economy’ while tension still exists between Christianity and the Chinese state due to ideological discrepancy. The paper further points out the possible direction for this nascent research field.
{"title":"Digital Religion in China: A Comparative Perspective on Buddhism and Christianity's Online Publics in Sina Weibo","authors":"Yanshuang Zhang","doi":"10.1163/21659214-90000095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21659214-90000095","url":null,"abstract":"The proliferation of social media in China has provided traditional religious authorities with multifarious digital features to revitalise and reinforce their practices and beliefs. However, under the authoritative political system different religions pick up the new media to varying degrees, thereby showing different characteristic and style in their social media use. This paper examines the public discourse about Buddhism and Christianity (two of the great official religions in China) on China’s largest microblogging platform-Sina Weibo, and seeks to reveal a distinct landscape of religious online public in China. Through a close look at the social media posts aided by a text analytics software- Leximancer , this paper comparatively investigates several issues related to the Buddhism and Christianity online publics, such as religious networks, interactions between involved actors, the economics and politics of religion, and the role of religious charitable organizations. The result supports Campbell’s proposition on digital religion that religious groups typically do not reject new technologies, but rather undergo a sophisticated negotiation process in accord with their communal norms and beliefs. It also reveals that in China a secular Buddhism directly contributes to a prosperous ‘temple economy’ while tension still exists between Christianity and the Chinese state due to ideological discrepancy. The paper further points out the possible direction for this nascent research field.","PeriodicalId":142820,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114885909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-05-16DOI: 10.1163/21659214-90000093
S. Hosseini
This article presents a nuanced approach for qualitative research on the Internet, based on the synthesis of qualitative data-gathering methodologies both online and offline, and contributes to recent knowledge of changing practices within Yārsāni communities around the world. Yārsān is a religious belief of Indo-Iranian origin that traces back to Hooraman, a region in Iranian Kurdistan. Yārsān thought, which Islamic Shiite authorities treat as heretical, has extensively used processes of adaptation and strategies of survival throughout the course of its history. The research presented here makes a case for the significance of the Internet and, more specifically, social network sites in connecting Yārsānis in their homelands and in the diaspora. How does Facebook provide a new space for this minority group to disclose their beliefs to the world, thereby reassessing the clandestine nature of their religion, which is a tenet required by traditional belief and defined by their adage, “don’t tell the secret”?
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Pub Date : 2017-01-11DOI: 10.1163/21659214-90000087
M. Coward
{"title":"Review of \"Buddhism, the Internet, and Digital Media\", edited by Gregory Grieve and Daniel Veidlinger (Routledge, 2015)","authors":"M. Coward","doi":"10.1163/21659214-90000087","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21659214-90000087","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":142820,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121331498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-01-11DOI: 10.1163/21659214-90000090
Anna E. Nekola
{"title":"Review of \"Does God Make the Man?\", by Stewart Hoover and Curtis Coats (NYU Press, 2015)","authors":"Anna E. Nekola","doi":"10.1163/21659214-90000090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21659214-90000090","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":142820,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123430517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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