Give Me That Online Religion
Autor Dr. Brenda E Brasheren Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 iun 2004
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.
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780813534367
ISBN-10: 0813534364
Pagini: 220
Dimensiuni: 178 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10: 0813534364
Pagini: 220
Dimensiuni: 178 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Rutgers University Press
Colecția Rutgers University Press
Notă biografică
Dr. Brenda E. Brasher is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at King's College, University of Aberdeen. She frequently serves as a religious consultant to the media, and for more than a decade has documented and analyzed Internet and Web activities of traditional and alternative religious groups.
Cuprins
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
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
Recenzii
One can find no better guide to cyberspace's impact on the complex passions and strivings of premodern, modern, antimodern, and postmodern humanity than this brilliant, empathic, and unfailingly honest inquiry. Few writers on religion can combine critical acuity and great-hearted compassion the way Brenda Brasher does.
Descriere
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.