Title | Virtual Ritual, Real Faith : the Revirtualization of Religious Ritual in Cyberspace |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2006 |
Authors | Casey, CAnne |
Journal | Online – Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet |
Volume | 02.1 |
Issue | Special Issue on Rituals on the Internet |
Start Page | 73 |
Keywords | Contemporary Religious Community, cyberspace, Episcopalian church, internet, media environments, New Media and Society, new media engagement, New Technology and Society, online communication, religious experience, RELIGIOUS RITUAL |
Abstract | Cheryl Anne Casey deals with Practicing Faith in Cyberspace: Conceptions and Functions of Religious Rituals on the Internet. She examines the emerging phenomenon of online religious rituals and their functions for participants in order to illuminate the relationship between changing technologies of communication and our changing conceptions of religion. Her case study considers an online Episcopalian church service within the framework of ritual theory. |
URL | http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/ojs/index.php/religions/article/view/377/353 |