The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion

The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion

The recently-coined term digital religion refers to the understanding that contemporary religion is practiced in both online and offline contexts, and these contexts intersect with one another. Scholars of digital religion recognize that religion is increasingly influenced and informed by its interactions with computer-mediated, digital technologies, including not only the different manifestations of the internet, but other emerging forms of technology, such as mobile phones and video games. The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion will provide a comprehensive overview of religion as seen and performed through these various media, platforms, and cultural spaces. The text will cover religious engagement with a wide range of digital media forms (including social media, websites, gaming environments, virtual and augmented realities, etc.) and highlight examples of technological engagement and negotiation within the major world religions (i.e. Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism), as well as significant subgroups. And because of the interdisciplinary nature of the field, the Handbook will be led by co-editors representing the fields of religious studies and communications, both with experience in how those disciplines intersect. "In the research on the edge of digitality and religion Heidí Campbeel is a familiar name. [...] The Oxford Handbook of Religion (2024), with its more than 660 pages and 37 chapters, is divided into 6 main parts.[...] Its themes illustrate the depth of this book, in which all religions of the world are portrayed, as well as right across human existence." -- T.T.J. Pleizier, Theologia Reformata Heidi A. Campbell is Professor of Communication, affiliate faculty in Religious Studies and a Presidential Impact Fellow at Texas A&M University. She is also director of the Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture Studies, and a founder of Digital Religion studies. She is author of over 100 articles and eleven books including When Religion Meets New Media (2010), Digital Religion (2013/2021) and Digital Creatives and the Rethinking Religious Authority (2021). Pauline Hope Cheong is Professor at the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication and affiliate faculty at the Center on Technology, Data and Society, and the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University. She has published more than 100 articles and books and has co-led funded research projects on technology, religion, and culture, including AI and governance.