The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion
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Publication date:
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680 pages
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ISBN:
9780197845950
Publication date:
24/10/2025
Hardback
680 pages
Part of Oxford Handbooks
Edited by Heidi A. Campbell, Pauline Hope Cheong
- Includes over thirty chapters representing an interdisciplinary approach, including religious studies, communications, history, anthropology, philosophy, journalism, and popular culture
- Covers the major regions and religious traditions, as well as the ongoing trends in the religious landscape, including new religious interpretations, interfaith dialogue, and secularization
- Addresses the the increasing activity of political-religious groups within the digital space and the emergence of new technologies such as virtual reality and artificial intelligence
Rights: OUP USA (INDIAN TERRITORY)
Edited by Heidi A. Campbell, Pauline Hope Cheong
Description
The recently-coined term digital religion refers to the understanding that contemporary religion is practiced in both online and offline contexts, and these contexts intersect with one another. Scholars of digital religion recognize that religion is increasingly influenced and informed by its interactions with computer-mediated, digital technologies, including not only the different manifestations of the internet, but other emerging forms of technology, such as mobile phones and video games.
The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion will provide a comprehensive overview of religion as seen and performed through these various media, platforms, and cultural spaces. The text will cover religious engagement with a wide range of digital media forms (including social media, websites, gaming environments, virtual and augmented realities, etc.) and highlight examples of technological engagement and negotiation within the major world religions (i.e. Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism), as well as significant subgroups. And because of the interdisciplinary nature of the field, the Handbook will be led by co-editors representing the fields of religious studies and communications, both with experience in how those disciplines intersect.
About the editors
Heidi A. Campbell is Professor of Communication, affiliate faculty in Religious Studies and a Presidential Impact Fellow at Texas A&M University. She is also director of the Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture Studies, and a founder of Digital Religion studies. She is author of over 100 articles and eleven books including When Religion Meets New Media (2010), Digital Religion (2013/2021) and Digital Creatives and the Rethinking Religious Authority (2021).
Pauline Hope Cheong is Professor at the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication and affiliate faculty at the Center on Technology, Data and Society, and the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University. She has published more than 100 articles and books and has co-led funded research projects on technology, religion, and culture, including AI and governance.
Contributors:
Ibrahim N. Abusharif
Northwestern University, Qatar
Simon Balle
Aarhus University
Menahem Blondheim
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
John W. Borchert
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Kutter Callaway
Fuller Seminary
Heidi A. Campbell
Texas A&M University
Candi K. Cann
Baylor University
Mohammad Yaqub Chaudhari
Cambridge Muslim College
Pauline Hope Cheong
Arizona State University
Henrik Reintoft Christensen
Aarhus University
Charles Ess
University of Oslo
Giulia Evolvi
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Erika Gault
University of Arizona
Stefan Gelfgren
Umeå University
Robbie B. H. Goh
Singapore University of Social Sciences
Oren Golan
University of Haifa
Gregory Price Grieve
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Margarita Simon Guillory
Boston University
Oliver Krüger
Fribourg University
Agnes Lucy Lando
Daystar University
Tommy Lister
Fuller Seminary
Mia Lövheim
University of Uppsala
Tan Meng Yoe
Monash University Malaysia
Bala A. Musa
Azusa Pacific University
Magali do Nascimento Cunha
Methodist University of São Paulo
Eva F. Nisa
Australian National University
Peter M. Phillips
Spurgeon's College
Kerstin Radde-Antweiler
University of Bremen
Fazlul Rahman
Universitas Pembangunan Nasional “Veteran” Jawa Timur
Benson Rajan
O.P. Jindal Global University
Hananel Rosenberg
Ariel University
Chen Sabag-Ben Porat
Ariel University and Sapienza University
Maggi Savin-Baden
University of Worcester
Sarah A. Schnitker
Baylor University
Jasjit Singh
University of Leeds
Johanna Sumiala
University of Helsinki
Teemu Taira
University of Helsinki
Ruth Tsuria
Seton Hall University
Daniel Veidlinger
California State University, Chico
Sara Wells
Fuller Seminary
Orlando Woods
Singapore Management University
Xenia Zeiler
University of Helsinki
Edited by Heidi A. Campbell, Pauline Hope Cheong
Table of contents
1. Introduction to the Study of Digital Religion
Heidi A. Campbell and Pauline Hope Cheong
Part I: Religious Engagement with Social Media
2. Christianity and Digital Media: Different Traditions and Different Aims
Stefan Gelfgren
3. Buddhism and Digital Media
Daniel Veidlinger
4. Islam and Digital Religion
Ibrahim N. Abusharif
5. Past, Present and Potential Futures of Digital Hinduism Research
Xenia Zeiler
6. Digital Judaism
Oren Golan
7. Sikh Digital Media
Jasjit Singh
8. New Religious Movements and the Internet
Margarita Simon Guillory
9. Secularism, Atheism and Digital Media
Teemu Taira
Part II: Explorations in Religious Community and the Internet
10. Digital Contours of the Black Church in North America and Community Online
Erika Gault
11. Mosques and churches and technology in Southeast Asia
Tan Meng Yoe
12. Religion and Online Community in African Contexts
Bala A. Musa and Agnes Lucy Lando
13. Digital Diasporas and The Religious Reproduction Of "Home"
Orlando Woods
Part III: Performing Religious Identity Online
14. Navigating Religious Identity and Embodiment in Digital Games
John W. Borchert
15. Gender and Agency in Digital Religion
Mia Lövheim
16. Hidden Religious Identities Online: Digital Religion and LGBTQIA+ Individuals
Ruth Tsuria
17. Islam, Digital Media, and Identity
Fazlul Rahman
18. Muslims Enacting Identity: Gender Through Digital Media
Eva F. Nisa
19. Digital Materiality in Protestant Evangelical Christianity
Robbie B. H. Goh
Part IV: Questions of Religious Authority in Digital Contexts
20. Authority and Communication: Dialectical Tensions and Paradoxes in Religious Organizing
Pauline Hope Cheong
21. Approaching Religious Authority Through the Rise of New Leadership Roles Online
Heidi A. Campbell
22. Challenges in Jewish Communities Online
Chen Sabag-Ben Porat, Hananel Rosenberg, and Menahem Blondheim
23. Mediatization and Religious Authority in Scandinavia
Henrik Reintoft Christensen
24. Religious Populism in the Digital Age
Magali do Nascimento Cunha
25. Religious Authority and Participatory Social Action in Indian Networks
Benson Rajan
Part V: Virtue Formation and Ethical Considerations about Technology
26. Value Formations through Digital Gaming
Gregory Price Grieve, Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, and Xenia Zeiler
27. Building Virtue Through App Cultures: How Do Digital Religions Provide the Resources as Ideological, Social, and Transcendent Contexts?
Sarah A. Schnitker
28. Bible Reading and Interpretation in a Digital Age
Peter M. Phillips
29. Considering Religious Education and Online Pedagogy: The (Trans)Formative Potential of Theological Higher Education
Kutter Callaway, Tommy Lister, and Sara Wells
Part VI: Religious Reflections on Emerging Technology and Our Digital Future
30. Digital Religion: A Methodological Approach
Johanna Sumiala
31. Theoretical Approaches in Digital Religion Studies
Giulia Evolvi
32. Posthumanism and Digital Religion
Oliver Krüger
33. Robots, Ethics, and Digital Religion: Initial Considerations
Simon Balle and Charles Ess
34. Death, Religion, and Digital Media
Maggi Savin-Baden
35. Pocket Memorials: Digital Death and the Smartphone
Candi K. Cann
36. Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Religion
Mohammad Yaqub Chaudhari
37. Digital Religion Futures: Propositions and Complexities in the Now and Not Yet
Pauline Hope Cheong and Heidi A. Campbell
Edited by Heidi A. Campbell, Pauline Hope Cheong
Review
"In the research on the edge of digitality and religion Heidí Campbeel is a familiar name. [...] The Oxford Handbook of Religion (2024), with its more than 660 pages and 37 chapters, is divided into 6 main parts.[...] Its themes illustrate the depth of this book, in which all religions of the world are portrayed, as well as right across human existence." -- T.T.J. Pleizier, Theologia Reformata
Edited by Heidi A. Campbell, Pauline Hope Cheong
Description
The recently-coined term digital religion refers to the understanding that contemporary religion is practiced in both online and offline contexts, and these contexts intersect with one another. Scholars of digital religion recognize that religion is increasingly influenced and informed by its interactions with computer-mediated, digital technologies, including not only the different manifestations of the internet, but other emerging forms of technology, such as mobile phones and video games.
The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion will provide a comprehensive overview of religion as seen and performed through these various media, platforms, and cultural spaces. The text will cover religious engagement with a wide range of digital media forms (including social media, websites, gaming environments, virtual and augmented realities, etc.) and highlight examples of technological engagement and negotiation within the major world religions (i.e. Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism), as well as significant subgroups. And because of the interdisciplinary nature of the field, the Handbook will be led by co-editors representing the fields of religious studies and communications, both with experience in how those disciplines intersect.
About the editors
Heidi A. Campbell is Professor of Communication, affiliate faculty in Religious Studies and a Presidential Impact Fellow at Texas A&M University. She is also director of the Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture Studies, and a founder of Digital Religion studies. She is author of over 100 articles and eleven books including When Religion Meets New Media (2010), Digital Religion (2013/2021) and Digital Creatives and the Rethinking Religious Authority (2021).
Pauline Hope Cheong is Professor at the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication and affiliate faculty at the Center on Technology, Data and Society, and the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University. She has published more than 100 articles and books and has co-led funded research projects on technology, religion, and culture, including AI and governance.
Contributors:
Ibrahim N. Abusharif
Northwestern University, Qatar
Simon Balle
Aarhus University
Menahem Blondheim
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
John W. Borchert
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Kutter Callaway
Fuller Seminary
Heidi A. Campbell
Texas A&M University
Candi K. Cann
Baylor University
Mohammad Yaqub Chaudhari
Cambridge Muslim College
Pauline Hope Cheong
Arizona State University
Henrik Reintoft Christensen
Aarhus University
Charles Ess
University of Oslo
Giulia Evolvi
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Erika Gault
University of Arizona
Stefan Gelfgren
Umeå University
Robbie B. H. Goh
Singapore University of Social Sciences
Oren Golan
University of Haifa
Gregory Price Grieve
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Margarita Simon Guillory
Boston University
Oliver Krüger
Fribourg University
Agnes Lucy Lando
Daystar University
Tommy Lister
Fuller Seminary
Mia Lövheim
University of Uppsala
Tan Meng Yoe
Monash University Malaysia
Bala A. Musa
Azusa Pacific University
Magali do Nascimento Cunha
Methodist University of São Paulo
Eva F. Nisa
Australian National University
Peter M. Phillips
Spurgeon's College
Kerstin Radde-Antweiler
University of Bremen
Fazlul Rahman
Universitas Pembangunan Nasional “Veteran” Jawa Timur
Benson Rajan
O.P. Jindal Global University
Hananel Rosenberg
Ariel University
Chen Sabag-Ben Porat
Ariel University and Sapienza University
Maggi Savin-Baden
University of Worcester
Sarah A. Schnitker
Baylor University
Jasjit Singh
University of Leeds
Johanna Sumiala
University of Helsinki
Teemu Taira
University of Helsinki
Ruth Tsuria
Seton Hall University
Daniel Veidlinger
California State University, Chico
Sara Wells
Fuller Seminary
Orlando Woods
Singapore Management University
Xenia Zeiler
University of Helsinki
Table of contents
1. Introduction to the Study of Digital Religion
Heidi A. Campbell and Pauline Hope Cheong
Part I: Religious Engagement with Social Media
2. Christianity and Digital Media: Different Traditions and Different Aims
Stefan Gelfgren
3. Buddhism and Digital Media
Daniel Veidlinger
4. Islam and Digital Religion
Ibrahim N. Abusharif
5. Past, Present and Potential Futures of Digital Hinduism Research
Xenia Zeiler
6. Digital Judaism
Oren Golan
7. Sikh Digital Media
Jasjit Singh
8. New Religious Movements and the Internet
Margarita Simon Guillory
9. Secularism, Atheism and Digital Media
Teemu Taira
Part II: Explorations in Religious Community and the Internet
10. Digital Contours of the Black Church in North America and Community Online
Erika Gault
11. Mosques and churches and technology in Southeast Asia
Tan Meng Yoe
12. Religion and Online Community in African Contexts
Bala A. Musa and Agnes Lucy Lando
13. Digital Diasporas and The Religious Reproduction Of "Home"
Orlando Woods
Part III: Performing Religious Identity Online
14. Navigating Religious Identity and Embodiment in Digital Games
John W. Borchert
15. Gender and Agency in Digital Religion
Mia Lövheim
16. Hidden Religious Identities Online: Digital Religion and LGBTQIA+ Individuals
Ruth Tsuria
17. Islam, Digital Media, and Identity
Fazlul Rahman
18. Muslims Enacting Identity: Gender Through Digital Media
Eva F. Nisa
19. Digital Materiality in Protestant Evangelical Christianity
Robbie B. H. Goh
Part IV: Questions of Religious Authority in Digital Contexts
20. Authority and Communication: Dialectical Tensions and Paradoxes in Religious Organizing
Pauline Hope Cheong
21. Approaching Religious Authority Through the Rise of New Leadership Roles Online
Heidi A. Campbell
22. Challenges in Jewish Communities Online
Chen Sabag-Ben Porat, Hananel Rosenberg, and Menahem Blondheim
23. Mediatization and Religious Authority in Scandinavia
Henrik Reintoft Christensen
24. Religious Populism in the Digital Age
Magali do Nascimento Cunha
25. Religious Authority and Participatory Social Action in Indian Networks
Benson Rajan
Part V: Virtue Formation and Ethical Considerations about Technology
26. Value Formations through Digital Gaming
Gregory Price Grieve, Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, and Xenia Zeiler
27. Building Virtue Through App Cultures: How Do Digital Religions Provide the Resources as Ideological, Social, and Transcendent Contexts?
Sarah A. Schnitker
28. Bible Reading and Interpretation in a Digital Age
Peter M. Phillips
29. Considering Religious Education and Online Pedagogy: The (Trans)Formative Potential of Theological Higher Education
Kutter Callaway, Tommy Lister, and Sara Wells
Part VI: Religious Reflections on Emerging Technology and Our Digital Future
30. Digital Religion: A Methodological Approach
Johanna Sumiala
31. Theoretical Approaches in Digital Religion Studies
Giulia Evolvi
32. Posthumanism and Digital Religion
Oliver Krüger
33. Robots, Ethics, and Digital Religion: Initial Considerations
Simon Balle and Charles Ess
34. Death, Religion, and Digital Media
Maggi Savin-Baden
35. Pocket Memorials: Digital Death and the Smartphone
Candi K. Cann
36. Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Religion
Mohammad Yaqub Chaudhari
37. Digital Religion Futures: Propositions and Complexities in the Now and Not Yet
Pauline Hope Cheong and Heidi A. Campbell
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