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Hinduism and Internet in 2010-12: An Essay on Websites, Blogs, Social Media, Censorship and 'Internet Hindu'
Religion and Social Communication, volume 11, issue 1 (2013), pp. 53-62
Mobile Mindfulness: Practicing Digital Religion on Smartphones with Buddhist Meditation Apps
University of Colorado, Master Thesis (2013), iv, 92 pp.
"In this thesis, I introduce and focus on the term “mobile mindfulness,” arguing that David McMahan’s elements of Buddhist modernism are intensified when practicing religion on the smartphone. These “mobile mindfulness” characteristics include the creation of transient experimental places
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Religion and the Internet: A Microcosm for Studying Internet Trends and Implications
New Media & Society, volume 15, issue 5 (2013), pp. 680-694
"Through a critical overview of research on religion online, five central research areas emerge related to social practices, online-offline connections, community, identity, and authority online. It is also argued that observations about these themes not only point to specific trends within religiou
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Islam and Islamic Teaching Online
Communication Research Trends, volume 31, issue 1 (2012), pp. 24-30
Catholic Approaches to the Internet
Communication Research Trends, volume 31, issue 1 (2012), pp. 14-24
Jewish Cyber-Theology
Communication Research Trends, volume 31, issue 1 (2012), pp. 4-14
"This article attempts to extrapolate from the Jewish Tradition a Jewish view on the Internet. To be contrasted are the Orthodox stream, itself broken into the ultra-Orthodox Haredi and Modern Orthodox (dati leumi), and the non-Orthodox streams, the Reform and Conservative [...] This essay will exam
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»Und Gott chillte«? Überlegungen zu neueren Bibelprojekten aus literaturwissenschaftlicher Sicht
In: Das Buch in den Büchern: Wechselwirkungen von Bibel und Literatur
München: Fink (2012), pp. 135-149
"Martin Dreyer, der 1965 geborene Gründer der Jesus Freaks, startete 2004 das Volxbibel-Projekt, dessen sprachlicher Duktus im oben angeführten Zitat ironisch aufgegriffen wird. Anders als bei kommunikativen Übersetzungen der letzten fünfzig Jahre (bspw. Hoffnung für alle 3 oder Gute Nachricht
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Kirche im Web 2.0
Communicatio Socialis, issue 1 (2012), pp. 3-57
Discovering the Zoroastrian E-Diaspora
Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (2012), 17 pp.
"Zoroastrians are an ancient ethnic-religious community that goes back to the prophet Zarathustra. Today they number some 120,000 people, based in India/Pakistan and Iran; diaspora communities are settled in North America, the United Kingdom, Australia. On the Indian sub-continent, where Zoroastrian
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Religious Diaspora and Information Communications Technology: The Impact of Globalization on Communal Relations in Egypt
"The age-old Coptic balancing act of proving that they are patriotic Egyptians while retaining a strong attachment to their religious and cultural identity has become harder in the globalization era, when specific individuals and groups based on another continent can affect the domestic political en
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Life is Local in the Imagined Global Community: Islam and Politics in the Indonesian Blogosphere
Journal of Media and Religion, volume 11, issue 2 (2012), pp. 127-140
"The rapid expansion of the Internet, marked by a storm of blogs and social networking platforms, is perceived as an enabling instrument for Muslims to be engaged globally. In this regard, the blogosphere can be a vehicle for worldwide interactions and the formation of global Muslim community, the u
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New Media and Islam
In: Asian Communication Handbook
Deus em bits e pixels: Uma anâlise das interaçoes comunicacionais em rituais online católicos
Acta Científica (Engenheiro Coelho, São Paulo), volume 21, issue 2 (2012), pp. 75-87
"Por meio das tecnologias digitais, configura-se um novo tipo de interação comunicacional fiel-Igreja-Deus, em uma experiência religiosa online. Esse fenômeno é ilustrado, na prática, por inúmeros serviços religiosos no ambiente católico online, que manifestam novas modalidades de discurso
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"Este texto pretende fazer uma análise das práticas comunicacionais católicas na internet e seus possíveis motivos, em particular, estudando a evangelização do padre Fábio de Melo na web. Para entender os possíveis motivos e as dimensões destas práticas foi abordado o cenário da religião
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Digital Religion, Social Media and Culture: Perspectives, Practices and Futures
New York et al.: Peter Lang (2012), xii, 326 pp.
The Use of the Internet by Islamic Social Movements in Collective Action: The Case of 'Justice and Charity'
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, volume 8, issue 2 (2011), pp. 63-91
"The article addresses the use of the internet by Islamic social movement organizations (SMOs), focusing on the case of Justice and Charity (JC), the biggest opposition political group in Morocco. It examines the extent to which the SMO exploits the potential of the medium in collective action, and
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Das soziale Netz als Kommunikationsplattform: Mehr als eine jugendpastorale Herausforderung?
Communicatio Socialis, volume 44, issue 1 (2011), pp. 5-24
"Der jüngste MDG-Trendmonitor (2010) weist nach, dass das Internet – als typisches Pullmedium – auch von Katholiken sehr stark entlang der subjektiven Interessen genutzt wird. Außerdem bestätigt sich die schon in früheren Untersuchungen erhobene „Mehr-und-Mehr-Regel: Wer generell viele Med
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New Media and Religion: Observations and Research
Communication Research Trends, volume 30, issue 1 (2011), pp. 4-22
"We have surveyed the history of the study of new media and religion, identified heuristic perspectives helpful in organizing current scholarship, and appraised methodologies employed in the study. The study of new media and religion has evolved from extreme utopian/dystopian discourses to a better
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The Church and New Media: Blogging Converts, Online Activists, and Bishops Who Tweet
Huntington, Indiana: Our Sunday Visitor (2011), 224 pp.
