@inbook {219, title = {Researching Religion in Cyberspace: Issues and Strategies}, booktitle = {Religion on the Internet. Research Prospects and Promises. }, year = {2000}, pages = {25-54}, publisher = {JAI Press}, organization = {JAI Press}, address = {Amsterdam, London and New York}, abstract = {Religion on the Internet is the first systematic inquiry into the nature, scope and content of religion in cyberspace. Contributors to this volume include leading social scientists engaged in systematic studies of how organizations and individuals are presenting religion on the Internet. Their combined efforts provide a conceptual mapping of religion in cyberspace at this moment. The individual papers and collective insights found in this volume add up to a valuable agenda of research that will enrich understanding of this new phenomenon. Among the contributors are the founders of three of the most important scholarly religion web sites on the Internet: American Religion Data Archive, Religious Tolerance, and Religious Movements Homepage. Religion and the Internet is essential reading for all who seek to understand how religion is being presented on the Internet and how this topic is likely to unfold in the years ahead.}, url = {http://books.google.com/books/about/Religion_on_the_Internet.html?id=xXVgQgAACAAJ}, author = {Dawson, Lorne} } @book {180, title = {Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet}, year = {2004}, publisher = {Routledge}, organization = {Routledge}, address = {New York}, abstract = {After sex, religion is one of the most popular and pervasive topics of interest online, with over three million Americans turning to the internet each day for religious information and spiritual guidance. Tens of thousands of elaborate websites are dedicated to every manner of expression.Religion Onlineprovides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to this burgeoning new religious reality, from cyberpilgrimages to neo-pagan chatroom communities. A substantial introduction by the editors presenting the main themes and issues is followed by sixteen chapters addressing core issues of concern such as youth, religion and the internet, new religious movements and recruitment, propaganda and the countercult, and religious tradition and innovation. The volume also includes thePew Internet and American Life ProjectExecutiveSummary, the most comprehensive and widely cited study on how Americans pursue religion online, and Steven O{\textquoteright}Leary{\textquoteright}s field-definingCyberspace as SacredSpace.}, keywords = {information and communication technology, methodology, social networks}, url = {http://books.google.com/books?id=xy0PJrrWXH4C\&printsec=frontcover$\#$v=onepage\&q\&f=false}, author = {Dawson, Lorne and Cowan, Douglas} }