Give me that online religion
著者
書誌事項
Give me that online religion
Rutgers University Press, 2004
1st pbk. ed
- : pbk
注記
"First published in hardcover 2001 by Jossey-Bass"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-194) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
As the Internet and the World Wide Web overcome barriers of time and space, religion enjoys an ever-increasing accessibility on a global scale. Inevitably, people online have sought out encounters with the otherworldly, launching religion into cyberspace. In this compelling book, Brenda Brasher explores the meaning of electronic faith and the future of traditional religion.
Operating online allows long-established religious communities to reach hearts and minds as never before. Yet more startling is the ease by which anyone with Internet access can create new circles of faith.
Bringing religion online also narrows the gap between pop culture and the sacred. Electronic shrines and kitschy personal Web "altars" idolize living celebrities, just as they honor the memory of religious martyrs. Looking ahead, Brasher envisions a world in which cyber-concepts and -technologies challenge conventional notions about the human condition, while still attempting to realize age-old religious ideals such as transcendence and eternal life.
As the Internet continues its rapid absorption of culture, Give Me That Online Religion offers pause for thought about spirituality in the cyber-age. Religion's move to the online world does not mean technology's triumph over faith. Rather, Brasher argues, it assures religion's place in the wired universe, meeting the spiritual demands of Internet generations to come.
目次
1. A revolution in the making : spiritual wonder goes online
2. The ultimate diaspora : religion in the perpetual present of cyberspace
3. A taste of forever : cyberspace as sacred time
4. Cyber-seekers : stories of virtual pilgrimage
5. Cyber-virtue and cyber-vice
6. Virtual shrines and the cult of celebrity
7. Existential doubt, or does a cyborg have a soul?
8. Virtual prophets, instant global access, and the apocalypse
Epilogue : seeing a flame there : religion and the future of cyberspace
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