Cowan Cyberhenge

Modern Pagans on the Internet
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-135-88104-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

Cyberhenge examines the use of Internet technology in shaping religious traditions and rituals. Cowan asks how and why Neopaganism has embraced the Internet in such an innovative and imaginative way.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cowan, Douglas E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Moderne Kulte & Sekten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Religiöse Institutionen & Gemeinschaften, Klerus, Mönchstum

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. The Modern Pagan Internet: From Hyperbole to reality and Back Again 2. The Road to Cyberhenge: Conceptualizing Modern Paganism Online and Off 3. The Mists of Cyberhenge: Mapping the Modern Pagan Internet 4. Online Solataries and Cybercovens: (Re-) Inventing the Modern Pagan Path 5. Among the Stones of Cyberhenge: Modern Pagan Ritual on the World Wide Web 6. Coming Out of the Online Broomcloset: Identity and Authority on the World Wide Web 7. (In)Conclusion: A Web of Dangers, Benefits and Research Directions Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Douglas E. Cowan is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Sociology at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He is author of The Remnant Spirit: Conservative Reform in Mainline Protestantism and Bearing False Witness: An Introduction to the Christian Countercult. He is coeditor, with Lorne L. Dawson, of Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet, also published by Routledge.