Articles and books added in January

In the month of January I added 44 articles/essays to the database. The includes the individual chapters of the books "Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet" and "Mediating Religion". Let me first list the 6 recently published articles:

  • A Summary of the Findings of the Study: Assessing the Impact of Online Courses on the Spiritual Formation of Adult Students - Mary Lowe
  • Has God Gone Global? Religion, Language, and Globalization - Annabelle Mooney, Nikolas Coupland
  • Tweet if You ? Jesus: Spiritual Identity & Community in the Digital Reformation - Elizabeth Drescher
  • Using Technology for Ministry: Trends, Principles, and Applications - Alfredo Vergel
  • Virtual Churches, Participatory Culture, and Secularization - Stefan Gelfgren
  • Visualization of the Taiwanese Buddhism web based on social network analysis - Chia- Hao Chang, Hsin-Chih Chen, Jia-Jane Shuai
And here are the 19 older articles added in January, that are not taken from the two books mentioned above:
  • Alternative Worlds: Metaphysical Questioning and Virtual Community Amongst the Otherkin - Danielle Kirby
  • Considering spiritual dimensions within computer-mediated communication studies - Heidi Campbell
  • Cultured Technology: The Internet and Religious Fundamentalism - Gad Barzilai, Karine Barzilai-Nahon
  • CyberBabel? - David R. Loy
  • CyberLack - David R. Loy
  • Markets without Firms: Mapping a New Religious Landscape - Gary F. Jensen
  • Online Religion - T. Matthew Ciolek
  • Reading Texts, Watching Texts: Mythopoesis on Neopagan Websites - Maria Beatrice Bittarello
  • Religion on the Internet: Community and Virtual Existence - Franz Foltz
  • Rethinking Cyberreligion? Teens, Religion and the Internet in Sweden - Mia Lövheim
  • Soul-Searching in Cyberspace: Christianity and New Age on the Internet - Dick Houtman, Ineke Noomen, Stef Aupers
  • Surfing for Salvation - Christopher Helland
  • Teaching New Religious Movements on the World Wide Web - Dougles E. Cowen
  • Teen Witchcraft and Silver RavenWolf: The Internet and its impact on community opinion - Stephanie Martin
  • The mediation of religious experience in cyberspace - Lorne L. Dawson
  • The Situation of the Current Internet Communication of Christianity and Its Research Perspective - Bing Jia, Zheng-lin Xu
  • Virtual Religion in Context - Patrick Maxwell
  • Virtually Boundless?: Youth Negotiating Tradition in Cyberspace - Mia Lövheim
  • What is' on': An Exploration of Iconographical Representation of Traditional Religious Organizations on the Homepages of their Websites - Sarah Lawther

I also added 21 books. Some of these only have a chapter ro two related to religion online, but even that made them relevant enough for inclusion here. Most of these are not newly published books

  • 24/7: time and temporality in the network society - Robert Hassan, Ronald Purser
  • Cyberhenge: Modern Pagans on the Internet - Dougles E. Cowen
  • Everyday Religion: Observing Modern Religious Lives - Nancy T. Ammerman
  • Exploring Religion and the Sacred in a Media Age - Christopher Deacy, Elisabeth Arweck
  • God in the Details: American Religion in Popular Culture - Eric Mazur, Kate McCarthy
  • iMuslims: Rewiring the House of Islam - Gary R. Bunt
  • Islam Dot Com: Contemporary Islamic Discourses in Cyberspace - Mohammed el-Nawawy, Sahar Khamis
  • Islam in the Digital Age: E-Jihad, Online Fatwas and Cyber Islamic Environment - Gary R. Bunt
  • Media Mindfulness: Educating Teens About Faith and Media - Gretchen Hailer
  • Mediating Religion: Studies in Media, Religion, and Culture - Jolyon Mitchell, Sophia Marriage
  • Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop - Bruce B. Lawrence, miriam cooke
  • New Media and the New Middle East - Philip Seib
  • Predicting Religion: Christian, Secular and Alternative Futures - Grace Davie, Linda Woodhead, Paul Heelas
  • Reading Spiritualities: Constructing and Representing the Sacred - Dawn Llewellyn, Deborah F. Sawyer
  • Teaching New Religious Movements - David G. Bromley
  • Technology & Spirituality: How the Information Revolution Affects Our Spiritual Lives - Stephen K. Spyker
  • The New Generation Witches: Teenage Witchcraft in Contemporary Culture - Hannah E. Peg, Johnston Aloi
  • The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements - James R. Lewis
  • The Soul of Cyberspace: How New Technology Is Changing Our Spiritual Lives - Jeffrey P. Zaleski
  • Virtual Faith: The Irreverent Spiritual Quest of Generation X - Tom Beaudoin
  • Virtually Islamic: Computer-mediated Communication & Cyber Islamic Environments - Gary R. Bunt