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Each student should select one article from the list below and put your name and today's date (whatever date today may be) AT THE END OF IT of it IN CAPITAL LETTERS AND BLUE FONT. During the appropriate week, complete the reading, write a summary of the reading, and also post it ON YOUR INDIVIDUAL BLOG. All postings should appear before class. Each article may be assigned to one student only, so choose early and choose wisely. You can change your mind later, but your choices will then be limited only to those articles as yet unclaimed. However, new articles will be added by me as they are located throughout the semester. (Feel free to let me know if you find something appropriate, but DO NOT POST IT ON THESE PAGES - I WILL POST IF APPROPRIATE).


1) RELIGION AND VIRTUAL REALITY


  • Alexander, J. 1990. “The Sacred and Profane Information Machine: Discourse about the Computer as Ideology.” Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religion. 35:60, 1990. 161-171. [available via interlibrary request]


  • Campbell, Heidi. (2006). “Religion and the Internet.” Communication Research Trends. 25 :1, 2006. 1-24. [available via interlibrary request]


  • Campbell, Heidi. “Considering Spiritual Dimensions Within Computer-Mediated Communication Studies.” New Media and Society. Vol. 7, No. 1, 2005. 110-134. Available at: http://nms.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/7/1/110. [may require library assistance, since this site is subscription-only] Chris Hendrickson


  • Campbell , Heidi. “Making Space for Religion in Internet Studies.” The Information Society 21:4, 309. 2005. [available via interlibrary request]


  • Casey, Cheryl Anne. “Virtual Ritual, Real Faith.” Online Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet. 2:1, 2006. Available in PDF at <http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/archiv/6958>. January 15, 2008. [special issue on rituals on the internet]NIKKI QUARRIER


  • Cochran, Tracy. "Samsara Squared: Buddhism and Virtual Reality". Tricycle. Fall 1992; 2:1. 76-81. [online, but requires subscription or single-pay]


  • Cowan, Douglas E. "Religion, Rhetoric, and Scholarship: Managing Vested Interest in E-Space." In Religion on the Internet: Research Prospects and Promises. J. K. Hadden and D. E. Cowan, eds. Amsterdam and London: JAI Press/Elsevier Science, 2000. [page numbers of chapter?] [at Cornell Library]


  • Cox, H., and A. Foerst. “Religion and Technology: A New Phase.” Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society. 17:2-3, 1997. 53-60. [available online via EBSCO and SAGE]




  • Dawson, Lorne L. "Doing Religion in Cyberspace: The Promise and the Perils." The Council of Societies for the Study of Religion Bulletin Vol. 30 (1). 2001. 3-9. Accessed at: <http://sociology.uwaterloo.ca/relcybercsssr.html.> Accessed December 28, 2007.


  • Dawson, Lorne L. "Researching Religion in Cyberspace: Issues and Strategies." In Religion on the Internet: Research Prospects and Promises. J. K. Hadden and D. E. Cowan, eds. Amsterdam and London: JAI Press/Elsevier Science, 2000. [page numbers of chapter?] [at Cornell Library






  • Ess, Charles. "Prophetic Communities Online? Threat and Promise for the Church in Cyberspace" in Listening: Journal of Religion and Culture 34:2. 1999. 87-100. Available at: http://www.drury.edu/ess/church/church.html. Accessed January 15, 2008.


  • Foltz, Franz. “Religion on the Internet: Community and Virtual Existence.” Bulletin of Science, Technology, & Society. 23:4. 2003. 321-330. [available online via EBSCO and SAGE]


  • Helland, Christopher. "Religion Online/Online Religion and Virtual Communitas." In Religion on the Internet: Research Prospects and Promises. J. K. Hadden and D. E. Cowan, eds. Amsterdam and London: JAI Press/Elsevier Science, 2000. 205-224.


  • Helland, Christopher. “Online Religion as Lived Religion: Methodological Issues in the Study of Religious Participation on the Internet.” Online-Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet, 1:1, 2005. Available at: http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/archiv/5823>. Accessed January 16, 2008.










  • Kinney, Jay. "Net Worth? Religion, Cyberspace and the Future." Futures 27:7. 1995. 763-776. [available at Cornell Library – Olin]


  • Lam, Pui-Yan. “May the Force of the Operating System Be with You: Macintosh Devotion as Implicit Religion.”Sociology of Religion. Vol. 62, No. 2. Summer, 2001. 243-262. [available on JSTOR via IC Library and at Cornell Library - Olin]




  • Mitcham, C. “Computers: From Ethos and Ethics to Mythos and Religion: Notes on the New Frontier Between Computers and Philosophy.” Technology and Society 8:171-201. 1986. [Available at Cornell Library – Engineering]































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