@article {2080,
	title = {Methods for analyzing let{\textquoteright}s plays: Context analysis for gaming videos on YouTube},
	journal = {Gamenvironments},
	year = {2015},
	abstract = {Let{\textquoteright}s Plays, gaming videos distributed on video platforms such as YouTube, became immensely popular during the last years. As a new research field they offer a huge new pool of research data for the study of video games/gaming and religion. But how to adequately analyze these data? We here propose a matrix for the initial section of analyzing Let{\textquoteright}s Plays, namely context analysis which then of course needs to be followed by content analysis. Based on the six wh-questions as applied especially also in the classical historical-critical method, we here propose a structured, step by step procedure analyzing specified and clearly defined components. Each step in this context analysis takes up one specific component of the Let{\textquoteright}s Play and provides context information for it. As such, we present and discuss a sequence of steps which is applicable not only in the study of Let{\textquoteright}s Plays and religion, but in research on Let{\textquoteright}s Plays in general. 
},
	keywords = {Beyond: Two Souls, context analysis, gamevironments, Let{\textquoteright}s Play, YouTube},
	url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282298487_Methods_for_Analyzing_Let{\textquoteright}s_Plays_Context_Analysis_for_Gaming_Videos_on_YouTube},
	author = {Radde-Antewler, K and Zeilier, X}
}
@article {2792,
	title = {Introduction: Religious Authority: Ascribing Meaning to a Theoretical Term},
	journal = {Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture},
	year = {2018},
	abstract = {Critical voices in the press argue that with digital media religious authority is weakened or endangered. Moreover, not only the press, but also academic researchers are convinced that the way the construction of religious authority is changing is crucial because it is the base and the backbone of religious organizations and their structures and function. However, there is by no means consensus on the definition of the term authority. Not only religious actors, but researchers as well ascribe different meanings to academic terms such as authority. Therefore, we have to ask critically what actually authority is. In other words, what meaning is ascribed to the concept or term author by the different researchers in their respective disciplines? Based on these reflections, the aim of this report is to analyze how the term authority is {\textquoteright}filled{\textquoteright} with meaning in the academic discourse.},
	url = {https://brill.com/view/journals/rmdc/7/3/article-p368_368.xml?language=en},
	author = {Radde-Antweiler, Kerstin and Gr{\"u}nenthal, Hannah}
}
@inbook {2137,
	title = {{\textquoteleft}Blogging Sometimes Leads to Dementia, Doesn{\textquoteright}t It?{\textquoteright} The Roman Catholic Church in Times of Deep Mediatization},
	booktitle = {Communicative Figurations},
	number = { Transforming Communications {\textendash} Studies in Cross-Media Research},
	year = {2018},
	pages = {267-286},
	publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan, Cham},
	organization = {Palgrave Macmillan, Cham},
	abstract = {The chapter analyzes religious authorities in Catholicism in times of deep mediatization. Like few other organizations, the Catholic Church seems to be caught between the general tendency of deep mediatization and its own reluctance to adapt to a mediatized world and society. One topic that is directly connected to media change is the construction of religious authority. Unlike earlier perspectives on the relation of religious authority and media, the figurational perspective offers the possibility to look at changes in the construction of religious authority and their interrelation with media change on different levels. Those different levels refer to different actor constellations and different media ensembles, as well as to different levels of authority, in other words local and translocal authority. In this chapter, we will explore how official religious authorities in the Catholic Church, namely priests in different positions, deal with deep mediatization. This includes the question concerning how they use media themselves, in which situations they use or don{\textquoteright}t use media, how and why they are reluctant; but also how they define their own and other{\textquoteright}s authority in a mediatized society and how all of this effects the organization as a whole. We will find out that there are different scopes in which authority is constructed differently: while the degree of mediatization is relatively low on the local scope, religious authorities are expected to go with mediatization in a translocal and global scope.},
	keywords = {Blogging, dementia, mediatization, Roman Catholic Church},
	issn = {978-3-319-65583-3},
	url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65584-0_11$\#$citeas},
	author = {Radde-Antweiler, K and Gr{\"u}nenthal, H and Gogolok, S}
}
@article {163,
	title = {Virtual Religion. An Approach to a Religious and Ritual Topography of Second Life},
	journal = {Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet},
	year = {2008},
	abstract = {Kerstin Radde-Antweiler gives an overview or a cross section about the religious and ritualistic settings within {\textquotedblleft}Second Life{\textquotedblright} and explores the question why studies in and around Virtual Worlds represent an important issue in the Study of Religions. In her article about {\textquotedblleft}Virtual Religion. An Approach to a Religious and Ritual Topography of Second Life{\textquotedblright} she introduces the theoretical concept of an {\textquotedblleft}actor-related religious historiography{\textquotedblright} which tries to take into account the religiousness of the individual actor.
},
	keywords = {Actor, religion, Second Life},
	url = {http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/volltexte/2008/8294/pdf/Radde.pdf},
	author = {Radde-Antweiler, Kerstin}
}
@inbook {402,
	title = {Wedding Design. Online: Transfer and Transformation of Ritual Elements in the Context of Wedding Rituals},
	booktitle = {Ritual Matters. Dynamic Dimensions in Practice},
	year = {2010},
	pages = {328-353, },
	publisher = {Routledge},
	organization = {Routledge},
	address = {London/Delhi/New York},
	abstract = {This book explores the interaction of rituals and ritualised practices utilising a cross-cultural approach. It discusses whether and why rituals are important today, and why they are possibly even more relevant than before.},
	url = {http://books.google.com/books/about/Ritual_matters.html?id=ZwJPAQAAIAAJ},
	author = {Radde-Antweiler, K.}
}
@article {1244,
	title = {Rituals Online : Transferring and Designing Rituals},
	journal = {Online {\textendash} Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet},
	volume = {02.1},
	year = {2006},
	chapter = {54},
	abstract = {
Kerstin Radde-Antweiler stresses the aspect of ritual construction by the individual believers in her paper Rituals Online. Transferring and Designing Rituals. In addition to the potential of the Internet to offer interaction and new processes of communication in the context of rituals {\textendash} the so called "Online-Rituals" {\textendash}, this medium also offers much information about rituals and instructions how to perform a ritual, in and outside the Internet. This varies from the publication of {\textendash} at first glance - fixed ritual prescripts to texts on how to design a ritual by him- or herself. These fixed texts are often identified as old traditional scripts, whereas critical analyses show explicit or implicit transfers and receptions of various religious traditions. In the paper, different ritual prescripts presented on Wicca- and Solitaire Homepages, which are often seen as continuation of pre-Christian, matriarchal, Celtic and Germanic cults and mythologies, are analysed and their transfer processes are exemplified. Instances that show the processes of ritual transfer are the choice of the owner-names, the mixture of deities of different religions, the integration of different feasts and festivals etc. The assertion of perpetual continuity from the insider perspective seems contradict those texts which encourage the believers to develop their own individual ritual. Therefore, the elements of newness and invention as well as the phenomenon of Ritual Design in their processes of gaining legitimacy and authority has to be examined},
	keywords = {Authority, Digital Religion, Hexe, Hexenglaube, internet, Online-Rituals, Patchwork, religion, Ritual, Wiccakult},
	url = {http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/ojs/index.php/religions/article/view/376/352},
	author = {Kerstin Radde-Antweiler}
}
@inbook {2135,
	title = {How to Study Religion and Video Gaming - A Critical Discussion },
	booktitle = {Methods for Studying Video Games and Religion},
	volume = {3},
	year = {2017},
	publisher = {Routledge },
	organization = {Routledge },
	abstract = {Game studies has been an understudied area within the emerging field of digital media and religion. Video games can reflect, reject, or reconfigure traditionally held religious ideas and often serve as sources for the production of religious practices and ideas. This collection of essays presents a broad range of influential methodological approaches that illuminate how and why video games shape the construction of religious beliefs and practices, and also situates such research within the wider discourse on how digital media intersect with the religious worlds of the 21st century. Each chapter discusses a particular method and its theoretical background, summarizes existing research, and provides a practical case study that demonstrates how the method specifically contributes to the wider study of video games and religion. Featuring contributions from leading and emerging scholars of religion and digital gaming, this book will be an invaluable resource for scholars in the areas of digital culture, new media, religious studies, and game studies across a wide range of disciplines.},
	keywords = {religion, video games},
	issn = {9781138698710},
	url = {https://books.google.com/books?hl=en\&lr=\&id=dJxADwAAQBAJ\&oi=fnd\&pg=PT295\&ots=KqNH4Zgwjv\&sig=9ukURAVWgz97H3PGhv2etObsjKw$\#$v=onepage\&q\&f=false},
	author = {Radde-Antweiler, K}
}
@book {2842,
	title = {Mediatized Religion in Asia: Studies on Digital Media and Religion},
	series = {Routledge},
	year = {2018},
	abstract = {This edited volume discusses mediatized religion in Asia, examining the intensity and variety of constructions and processes related to digital media and religion in Asia today. Individual chapters present case studies from various regions and religious traditions in Asia, critically discussing the data collected in light of current mediatization theories. By directing the study to the geographical, cultural and religious contexts specific to Asia, it also provides new material for the theoretical discussion of the pros and cons of the concept mediatization, among other things interrogating whether this concept is useful in non-{\textquoteright}Western{\textquoteright} contexts."
},
	url = {https://www.routledge.com/Mediatized-Religion-in-Asia-Studies-on-Digital-Media-and-Religion/Radde-Antweiler-Zeiler/p/book/9780367663933},
	author = {Radde-Antweiler, Kerstin and Zeiler, Xenia}
}
@article {1222,
	title = {Ritual is becoming digitalised". Introduction to the Special Issue on Rituals on the Internet},
	journal = {Online {\textendash} Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet},
	volume = {02.1 },
	year = {2006},
	chapter = {1},
	keywords = {analysing rituals, communication within the Internet, media and religion, New Technology and Society, Online community, Practicing Faith in Cyberspace, religion, religious practice, RITUALS ON THE INTERNET, Techno-Ritualization},
	url = {http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/ojs/index.php/religions/article/view/372},
	author = {Kerstin Radde-Antweiler}
}
@article {335,
	title = {Rituals-Online: Transferring and Designing Rituals},
	journal = {Online-Heidelberg Journal of Religion on the Internet},
	volume = {2},
	year = {2006},
	abstract = {{\textquotedblleft}(1) We acquire knowledge today from the Internet. (2) Searching and finding information in the Internet is an independent element of our culture {\textendash} in the future, children will learn how to count, read, write, and google at school. (3) The ability to acquire information and integrate it into our personal corpus of knowledge is more important than the knowledge itself. (4) Search engines like Google always provide a surplus of information: Users find answers to questions that they haven{\textquoteright}t even asked (yet). Google generates an entire universe of questions and in the process ultimately changes the basic operation of knowledge acquisition.{\textquotedblright}},
	keywords = {Design, Online, Ritual},
	url = {http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/volltexte/2006/6957/pdf/Aufsatz_Radde_Antweiler.pdf},
	author = {Radde-Antwiler, K.}
}
@article {2710,
	title = {Exploring the Meanings of Hijab through Online Comments in Canada},
	journal = {Journal of Intercultural Communication Research},
	year = {2016},
	abstract = {Controversies surrounding ethnic dress such as hijab have increased public awareness about cultural diversity. The number of comments posted on online media make it evident that many people are concerned about ethnic attire, cultural differences and social cohesion. Although researchers have examined the meanings of veiling, the relationships between hijab and public opinion have seldom been investigated. The overarching objective of this study was to understand the relationships between Islamic attire and online readers{\textquoteright} opinion. In light of the limitations in the previous studies on this topic, this study attempts to fill the gap by studying posters{\textquoteright} opinions toward hijab through publicly available online information in the form of posted comments.},
	url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17475759.2016.1171795?journalCode=rjic20},
	author = {Rahman, Osmud and Fung, Benjamin and Yeo, Alexia}
}
@article {2735,
	title = {Digital religion, the supermarket and the commons},
	journal = {Soci{\'e}t{\'e}s},
	year = {2018},
	abstract = {The aim of this article is to highlight an intersection between recent research on contemporary spiritualities and work in the field of digital religion. The concept of commons-based peer production, developed in the areas of social digital technologies and networked collaboration, offers an alternative to the widely used analogy of the spiritual supermarket when it comes to describing and explaining the eclecticism at work in some contemporary spiritualities.},
	url = {https://www.cairn.info/revue-societes-2018-1-page-73.htm},
	author = {R{\"a}hme, Boris}
}
@article {423,
	title = {Divergent Attitudes within Orthodox Jewry Toward Mass Communication},
	journal = {Review of Communication},
	volume = {11},
	year = {2011},
	pages = {20-38},
	abstract = {This paper examines the divergent attitudes toward mass media among the streams of Orthodox Jewry. According to most Ultra-Orthodox Jewish leaders, media spread blasphemy, provoke gossip and slander, and steal time from religious studies, but Rabbi M. Schneerson, late leader of the Chabad movement, believed that the media should be exploited to spread the tenets of Judaism. Modern Orthodox rabbis generally favor limited access to media*filtering out its negative aspects, embracing its positive features, and using it to impart religious knowledge. Understanding these various attitudes may help media professionals deal with religion-based criticism and encourage media-borne moderate religious dialogue.},
	keywords = {Communication, Jewish, Jews, Orthodox},
	url = {http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15358593.2010.504883$\#$preview},
	author = {Rashi, T}
}
@inbook {3006,
	title = {The bases of social power},
	booktitle = {Studies in social power },
	publisher = {Institute for Social Research},
	organization = {Institute for Social Research},
	address = {Ann Arbor, MI},
	abstract = {5 types of social influence, leading to various research hypotheses, are distinguished: referent power, expert power, reward power, coercive power, and legitimate power. Referent power, involving identification of P with O, will tend to have the broadest range. Coercion will produce decreased attraction of P toward O and high resistance. Reward will result in increased attraction and low resistance. "The more legitimate the coercion the less it will produce resistance and decreased attraction." 42 refs. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)},
	url = {https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1960-06701-004},
	author = {Raven, B. H. and French, J.}
}
@book {427,
	title = {Practically Religious: Worldly Benefits and the Common Religion of Japan},
	year = {1998},
	publisher = {University of Hawai{\textquoteright}i Press},
	organization = {University of Hawai{\textquoteright}i Press},
	address = {Honolulu},
	author = {Reader, Ian and Tanabe, George J.}
}
@inbook {420,
	title = {Hierarchy and power: social control in cyberspace},
	booktitle = {Communities in Cyberspace},
	year = {1999},
	pages = {107-133},
	publisher = {Routledge},
	organization = {Routledge},
	address = {London \& New York},
	abstract = {This wide-ranging introductory text looks at the virtual community of cyberspace and analyses its relationship to real communities lived out in today{\textquoteright}s societies. Issues such as race, gender, power, economics and ethics in cyberspace are grouped under four main sections and discussed by leading experts: * identity * social order and control * community structure and dynamics * collective action. This topical new book displays how the idea of community is being challenged and rewritten by the increasing power and range of cyberspace. As new societies and relationships are formed in this virtual landscape, we now have to consider the potential consequences this may have on our own community and societies. Clearly and concisely writtenwith a wide range of international examples, this edited volume is an essential introduction to the sociology of the internet. It will appeal to students and professionals, and to those concerned about the changing relationships between information technology and a society which is fast becoming divided between those on-line and those not.},
	url = {http://books.google.com/books?id=210IkjyN8gEC\&printsec=frontcover$\#$v=onepage\&q\&f=false},
	author = {Reid, E}
}
@inbook {403,
	title = {Virtual worlds: culture and imagination},
	booktitle = {Cybersociety},
	year = {1995},
	pages = {164-183},
	publisher = {Sage},
	organization = {Sage},
	address = {Thousand Oaks, CA},
	abstract = {The culture of computer and network- mediated communication is growing both in size and sophistication. Cyberspace is the new frontier where new worlds, meanings and values are developed. CyberSociety focuses on the construction, maintenance and mediation of community in electronic networks and computer-mediated communication. Leading scholars representing the range of disciplines involved in the study of cyberculture lay out the definitions, boundaries and approaches to the field, as they focus on the social relations that computer-mediated communication engenders.},
	url = {http://books.google.com/books/about/CyberSociety.html?id=jPlSAAAAMAAJ},
	author = {Reid, E}
}
@conference {1299,
	title = {Clothed With Strength And Dignity: How Evangelical Women are Re-Claiming and  Re-Constructing the Evangelical Church in the Blogosphere},
	year = {2013},
	publisher = {The World Social Science Forum},
	organization = {The World Social Science Forum},
	address = {Montreal, Canada},
	abstract = {Much has been written on the significance of the religious web log or {\textquotedblleft}blog{\textquotedblright} in the past decade, 
especially as its growing popularity among authors and readers alike has coincided with the continued 
decline in institutional church attendance in the West (see Cheong et al, Corrigon et al, Campbell, and 
West). However, much less has been written on the significance of religious blogs authored by women, 
and particularly those that are written from a standpoint of cultivated ambivalencei 
toward the doctrines and practices of their religious traditions; a phenomenon that is especially poignant for feminist 
scholars to consider given the historical tendency for patriarchal religious institutions to marginalize 
and delegitimize women{\textquoteright}s voices (Bammert 155; Gallagher 215; Steiner-Aeschliman and Mauss 248). 
To that end, it is further pertinent to consider the growing popularity of religious blogs authored by 
women in North America who identify as evangelical Protestant{\textemdash}a Christian tradition that remains 
largely (albeit not exclusively) committed to the value of patriarchal authority within and outside the 
institutional church, even (and especially) while some mainline Protestant denominations have been 
adopting the value of gender equality both at the institutional and doctrinal levels (Steiner-Aeschliman 
and Mauss 248; Keller and Ruether xxxviii-xxxix). This exploratory study accordingly employs 
feminist Critical Discourse Analysis to investigate a purposive selection of religious blogs that are 
authored by evangelical women and written from a standpoint of cultivated ambivalence.},
	keywords = {Blogosphere, Christianity, Digital Religion, Evangelical Church, female, GENDER, Women},
	url = {http://www.wssf2013.org/sites/wssf2013.org/files/full_papers/extended_abstract_pdf.pdf},
	author = {Vanessa Reimer}
}
@article {2846,
	title = {Witches on Facebook: Mediatization of Neo-Paganism},
	journal = {Social Media + Society},
	year = {2020},
	abstract = {This article investigates the mediatization of neo-Paganism by analyzing how Estonian witches use Facebook groups and Messenger and how Facebook{\textquoteright}s affordances shape the neo-Paganism practiced in those spaces. This is a small-scale exploratory study based on ethnographic interviews and observational data. To understand the mediatization of neo-Paganism, we use the communicative figurations model which suggests three layers of analysis: framing, actors, and communicative practices. For a more granular understanding of these three on social media, we rely on the framework of affordances. We found that social media neo-Paganism is (1) characterized by networked eclecticism; (2) enacted by witches who amass authority by successfully using social media affordances; and (3) consists of practices and rituals that are preferred by seekers, easily transferable to social media settings and validated by Facebook algorithms. Social media neo-Paganism thus is a negotiation between authoritative witches, seekers, and platform affordances that validate some practices over others.
},
	url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2056305120928514},
	author = {Renser, Berit and Tiidenberg, Katrin}
}
@book {355,
	title = {Cybernauts Awake!: Ethical and Spiritual Implications of Computers, Information Technology and the Internet},
	year = {1999},
	publisher = {Church Publishing House},
	organization = {Church Publishing House},
	address = {London},
	url = {http://books.google.com/books?id=w4Lupu5wTNwC\&printsec=frontcover$\#$v=onepage\&q\&f=false},
	author = {Church of England Board for Social Responsibility}
}
@book {260,
	title = {The New Media Frontier: Blogging, Vlogging, and Podcasting for Christ},
	year = {2008},
	publisher = {Crossway Books },
	organization = {Crossway Books },
	address = {Wheaton, IL},
	abstract = { Study reports that only 2\% of America{\textquoteright}s twelve millionbloggers claim "religion, spirituality or faith" as their maintopic. This leaves a great mission field in cyberspace, saycontributors to The New Media Frontier, because the latestforms of communication present so many opportunities to promote thecause of Christ in other topics and fields. Before blindly jumpingin, however, Christians need to weigh the possibilities against theconsequences, and then proceed with the practical discernment andgrace this book provides.<p>With a foreword by national radio host Hugh Hewitt-who has beenat the forefront of the new media movement among Christians-editorsRoger Overton and John Mark Reynolds (along with an impressive listof other new media experts) survey the current landscape andexplore specific areas in which God{\textquoteright}s people can creatively expandtheir reach to a lost world. By stressing the urgency for Christianinvolvement, unearthing the dangers, and advising readers on how touse this media with different audiences, this book equips believersto advance, demonstrate, and utilize the Christian worldview inthis exciting realm.},
	url = {http://books.google.com/books?id=MnDU0TcFAvkC\&printsec=frontcover$\#$v=onepage\&q\&f=false},
	author = {Reynolds, John Mark and Overton, Roger and Hewitt, Hugh}
}
@book {658,
	title = {The Virtual Community},
	year = {1993},
	publisher = {Harper Perennial},
	organization = {Harper Perennial},
	address = {New York},
	abstract = {"When you think of a title for a book, you are forced to think of something short and evocative, like, well, {\textquoteright}The Virtual Community,{\textquoteright} even though a more accurate title might be: {\textquoteright}People who use computers to communicate, form friendships that sometimes form the basis of communities, but you have to be careful to not mistake the tool for the task and think that just writing words on a screen is the same thing as real community.{\textquoteright}" - HLR },
	keywords = {community, Computer, culture, internet, media, Virtual},
	issn = {0262681218},
	url = {http://www.rheingold.com/vc/book/intro.html},
	author = {Rheingold, H.}
}
@article {1278,
	title = {New media/Internet research topics of the association of Internet researchers},
	journal = {The Information Society: An International Journal},
	volume = {21},
	year = {2005},
	chapter = {285},
	abstract = {This study summarizes prior reviews of new media and Internet research, and the growth
of the term Internet in academic publications and online newsgroups. It then uses semantic
network analysis to summarize the interests and concepts of an interdisciplinary group of
Internet researchers, as represented by session titles and paper titles and abstracts from the
2003 and 2004 Association of Internet Researchers conferences. In both years, the most
frequent words appearing in the paper abstracts included Internet, online, community, social,
technology, and research. The 2003 papers emphasized topics such as the social analysis/
research of online/Internet communication, community, and information, with particular coverage
of access, individuals, groups, digital media, culture; role and process in e-organizations; and
world development. The 2004 papers emphasized topics such as access; news and social issues;
the role of individuals in communities; user-based studies; usage data; and blogs, women, and
search policy, among others.},
	keywords = {access, AoIR, communication technology, internet research, new media research, Online community, semantic network analysis},
	url = {http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/4x34x1wv$\#$page-1},
	author = {Rice, R}
}
@book {259,
	title = {The Church of Facebook: How the Hyperconnected Are Redefining Community},
	year = {2007},
	publisher = {David C. Cook},
	organization = {David C. Cook},
	address = {Colorado Springs, CO},
	abstract = {A revolution is taking place, one profile at a time. Online social networks are connecting people like never before. And with millions of users, they{\textquoteright}re creating a virtual world that erases all boundaries. It{\textquoteright}s a movement that{\textquoteright}s changing how we form relationships, perceive others, and shape our identity. Yet at their core, these sites reflect our need for community. Our need for intimacy, connection, and a place to simply belong. Are we seeing the future of the church? Do these networks help or hurt relationships? And what can these sites teach us about God and each other? The Church of Facebook explores these ideas and much more. Author Jesse Rice offers a revealing look at the wildly popular world of online social groups. From profiles, to The Wall, to status updates, to {\textquotedblleft}poking,{\textquotedblright} Jesse shares what Facebook reveals about us, and what it may mean for the church.},
	url = {http://books.google.com/books?id=83T5eGQ_hXAC\&printsec=frontcover$\#$v=onepage\&q\&f=false},
	author = {Rice, Jesse}
}
@book {3007,
	title = {The Twible: All the chapters of the Bible in 140 characters Or Less . . . Now with 68\% more humor },
	year = {2013},
	publisher = {Jana Riess},
	organization = {Jana Riess},
	abstract = {You{\textquoteright}ve wanted to read the Bible, but it{\textquoteright}s uber-long and, let{\textquoteright}s face it, sometimes boring. You{\textquoteright}re a busy person with stuff to do. You want the Bible, only funnier.

Enter The Twible, which brings you every chapter as tweeted in 140 characters or less, from Genesis to Revelation!

Find out what the Bible says you{\textquoteright}re supposed to do if a friend starts worshiping another god, your child disrespects you in public, or you break the Sabbath. (The answers to those dilemmas are to stone your friend, stone your child, and stone yourself. In that order.) Learn where Paul swears in the New Testament, and why Jeremiah could benefit from antidepressants.

Inside The Twible you{\textquoteright}ll find:

A tweet for each of the 1,189 chapters of the Bible
A summary of every book of the Bible in seven words or less
Dozens of informative sidebars (print edition only)
More than 50 original cartoons
A glossary telling you who{\textquoteright}s who in the Bible
Unicorns
From start to finish, The Twible brings the Bible to wonderful, wicked, weird life.

The Twible adapts the Old Testament to the light-hearted quipping familiar in everyday Tweets.-- The Guardian,

The Twible is the most entertaining version of my dad{\textquoteright}s book I{\textquoteright}ve read in the last two millennia! -- Jesus Christ

The Twible is the best example I have ever seen of the reverence of irreverence. Only those who love deeply and securely can bring this kind of humor to the telling of the family{\textquoteright}s stories. Don{\textquoteright}t read it, unless you are prepared to fall in love with them again. -- Phyllis Tickle, author of The Divine Hours and The Great Emergence

I wouldn{\textquoteright}t object if Twibles were in every hotel room. If they{\textquoteright}re using this book, I look forward to the next time Christians attempt to proselytwize -- Hemant Mehta, The Friendly Atheist blogger; author of The Young Atheist{\textquoteright}s Survival Guide

Forget about reading the Bible in a year. Now you can read it in an hour, thanks to the subversive, somewhat disturbed, mind of Jana Riess. -- Peter Enns, author of Genesis for Normal People

The perfect (surreptitious) iPad or Tablet companion for draggy Sunday (or Saturday) morning services. Caution: Not to be used for congregational Scripture reading. -- Mark I. Pinsky, author of The Gospel According to the Simpsons

Whatever you think of Twitter, there can be no speedier or funnier way to read through the Bible than with Riess{\textquoteright}s Twible providing spot-on interpretation chapter by chapter. On a jet stream of solid scholarship, it{\textquoteright}ll keep you thinking long after the hashtags have burned away. -- Kristin Swenson, author of Bible Babel: Making Sense of the Most Talked-about Book of All Time

The Twible is an indelible book that reads like an oddly religious comedy but has the impact of a brilliant jingle that sticks in your brain to the point of madness. Read it and drive yourself pleasantly nuts. -- Frank Schaeffer, author of And God Said, Billy!

This is brilliant stuff;hilariously accurate summaries of complex material. Riess is a very funny, charmingly masterful guide. -- Debbie Blue, pastor; author of Consider the Birds: A Provocative Guide to the Birds of the Bible

This is absolutely the funniest and most fun Bible translation ever. Yet, throughout the ensuing hilarity there is a wisdom here that challenges and provokes. -- Steven L. Peck, author of A Short Stay in Hell and The Scholar of Moab},
	url = {https://www.amazon.com/Twible-Chapters-Bible-Characters-Humor/dp/0989774708},
	author = {Riess, J}
}
@inbook {1710,
	title = {Medios digitales y religi{\'o}n: investigar la mediatizaci{\'o}n de la fe en la era digital},
	booktitle = {Crisis y cambio: propuestas desde la sociolog{\'\i}a},
	volume = {2},
	pages = {527-536},
	publisher = {Federaci{\'o}n Espa{\~n}ola de Sociolog{\'\i}a},
	organization = {Federaci{\'o}n Espa{\~n}ola de Sociolog{\'\i}a},
	address = {Madrid},
	keywords = {Mediatizaci{\'o}n, medios digitales, podcasting, Rezandovoy},
	url = {http://fes-web.org/uploads/files/modules/congress/11/Libro\%20de\%20Actas\%20final_2.pdf},
	author = {Riezu,Xabier}
}
@article {1709,
	title = {Uses and Gratifications of a Spanish Digital Prayer Project: Rezandovoy},
	journal = {Tr{\'\i}podos},
	year = {2014},
	month = {12/2014},
	chapter = {11-28},
	abstract = {This article attempts to make a contribution, from a sociology and communication sciences perspective, about the knowledge of religion in digital media. The results of a case study about Rezandovoy, a digital prayer service of the Society of Jesus, are exposed here. The service was created in Valladolid (Spain) in 2011 and it is used by 40,000 Spanish-speakers from around the world daily. The theoretical framework used is the paradigm of uses and gratifications, a consolidated framework in mass media research that is also applied to new digital media. This theoretical framework helps to explain the reasons why believers from all over the world use digital media in relation to their faith. In the current case study, through a methodology consisting in focus groups, interviews and virtual ethnography, it is concluded that there are a variety of gratifications that encourage users to utilise Rezandovoy. By taking into account what the users themselves say about the satisfactions that they obtain from the service, six categories of gratifications are defined: {\textquotedblleft}Spiritual{\textquotedblright}, {\textquotedblleft}Prayer School{\textquotedblright}, {\textquotedblleft}Guidance{\textquotedblright}, {\textquotedblleft}Social Utility{\textquotedblright}, {\textquotedblleft}Diversion{\textquotedblright} and {\textquotedblleft}Emotional{\textquotedblright}.},
	keywords = {audio prayer, digital prayer, Jesuits, Rezandovoy, uses and gratifications theory},
	issn = {1138-3305.},
	url = {http://www.tripodos.com/index.php/Facultat_Comunicacio_Blanquerna/article/view/191},
	author = {Riezu,Xabier}
}
@conference {2147,
	title = {Money, God, and SMS: Explorations in Supporting Social Action Through a Bangladeshi Mosque},
	booktitle = {CHI Conference },
	year = {2017},
	address = {Denver, CO},
	abstract = {Religious institutions hold a significant place in daily life for the vast majority of people in the world, especially in developing countries. Yet despite their social prominence, and despite HCI{\textquoteright}s emphasis on the social context of technology, organized religion is neglected in both the HCI and ICTD literature. This paper explores the relationship that mosques in Bangladesh have with their constituencies and with technology, with an eye toward the integration of technology with existing religious institutions as a way to achieve positive social ends. We first describe a qualitative exploration of several mosque communities in Bangladesh, where we find that skepticism and pragmatism about modern technology interact in a complex way that nevertheless leaves room for technical interventions. We then describe a randomized controlled trial to study the relative value of SMS messages infused with overtly religious or secularly altruistic frames for the purpose of mosque fundraising. We find that SMS messages increase donations overall, but that their framing is significant. Messages with secular altruistic framing increased donations by 9.5\%, while those with religious sentiment increased donations by 57.3\%. Our findings demonstrate how technologies like SMS amplify underlying religious forces and suggest the possibility of working with religious institutions in applying positive ICT interventions. },
	keywords = {Bangladeshi Mosque, God, money, SMS, social action},
	url = {https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316706139_Money_God_and_SMS_Explorations_in_Supporting_Social_Action_Through_a_Bangladeshi_Mosque},
	author = {Rashidujjaman Rifat, M and Chen, J and Toyama, K}
}
@article {894,
	title = {The Beast Within: Anthrozoomorphic Identity and Alternative Spirituality in the Online Therianthropy Movement},
	journal = {Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions},
	volume = {16},
	year = {2013},
	pages = {7-30},
	keywords = {NRMs, popular occulture, shape-shifters, Therianthropy},
	url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/nr.2013.16.3.7},
	author = {Venetia Laura Delano Robertson}
}
@article {241,
	title = {Virtual Warfare: The Internet as the New Site for Global Religious Conflict},
	journal = {Asian Journal of Social Science},
	volume = {32},
	year = {2004},
	pages = {198-215},
	abstract = {This paper explores the ways in which a resurgent Hindu fundamentalism (Hindutva) is redefining Hinduism and Hindu identities in a transnational, global context. The global project of Hindutva makes use of new global communication channels, including the Internet, and is apparently espoused by influential sections of the transnational Hindu middle class, especially in the United States. This paper examines a selected sample of Internet sites devoted to the spread of religious and fundamentalist beliefs and ideas particularly relevant to India and transnational Hinduism, and explores the ways in which the Internet is changing the shape of communities and the ways in which they represent one another. The paper puts forth the argument that in the context of globalization, the Net has become an important space for the creation of transnational religious identities. The Net is shaping religion, specifically Hinduism, in distinct ways and is the newest expression of religion{\textquoteright}s changing face. The battle for souls is being fought on Internet sites. The questions of this paper relate to the modes of representation of "other religions" as revealed particularly by Hindu sites, the ways in which Internet sites garner audiences, and the strategies they adopt to link themselves with both global audiences and local groups. A sociological analysis will reveal the shape of these discourses and link their popularity with the social and political context of globalization, a liberalized economy, and the organization of religious practice in post 1990s India.
},
	keywords = {Communication, Globalization, Hindu, religion},
	url = {http://www.kamat.com/database/?CitationID=11007},
	author = {Robinson, Rowena}
}
@article {203,
	title = {Enhancing the Spiritual Relationship: The Impact of Virtual Worship on the Real World Church Experience},
	journal = {Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet },
	volume = {3},
	year = {2008},
	abstract = {In her article {\textquotedblleft}Enhancing the Spiritual Relationship: The Impact of Virtual Worship on the Real World Church Experience{\textquotedblright} Andre{\'e} Robinson-Neal discusses her experiences as a virtual churchgoer in {\textquotedblleft}Second Life{\textquotedblleft} and describes the relationship between online worship and her offline faith experience. The article centres around the reality of experience in virtual worship and how can both enhance and hinder the {\textquotedblleft}real-life faith walk.},
	url = {http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/volltexte/2008/8296/pdf/robinson_neal.pdf},
	author = {Robinson-Neal, Andre{\'e}}
}
@inbook {3008,
	title = {Goffman on power, hierarchy, and status},
	booktitle = {The View from Goffman},
	year = {1980},
	publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan.},
	organization = {Palgrave Macmillan.},
	address = {London},
	abstract = {Among the most commonly overlooked set of insights offered by Erving Goffman is his commentary, comprised of both explicit and implicit elements, on the interrelationship among power, hierarchy, and status in everyday life. In fact, Goffman has been subject to criticism for his apparent failure to treat these sorts of stratification-related phenomena. To date the most detailed critique of Goffman along these lines is Alvin Gouldner{\textquoteright}s analysis.1},
	url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-16268-0_5},
	author = {Rogers, M. F.}
}
@book {242,
	title = {The Jewish Guide to the Internet},
	year = {1996},
	publisher = {Jason Aronson Publishers},
	organization = {Jason Aronson Publishers},
	address = {Lanham, MD},
	abstract = {This is the only current and comprehensive guide to Jewish sites on the Internet. Completely rewritten, this volume contains more than 1500 sites arranged in 136 subject areas. This is a new and updated edition of the popular reference guide to the Jewish electronic universe. Included is an alphabetical listing of the Jewish sources found on the internet.},
	url = {http://www.betterworldbooks.com/the-jewish-guide-to-the-internet-id-0765761874.aspx},
	author = {Romm, Diane}
}
@book {164,
	title = {The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey between Worlds},
	year = {2000},
	publisher = {Farrar, Straus and Giroux},
	organization = {Farrar, Straus and Giroux},
	address = {New York},
	abstract = {The Talmud and the Internet, in which Jonathan Rosen examines the contradictions of his inheritance as a modern American and a Jew, is a moving and exhilarating meditation on modern technology and ancient religious impulses. Blending memoir, religious history and literary reflection Rosen explores the remarkable parallels between a page of Talmud and the homepage of a web site, and reflects on the contrasting lives and deaths of his American and European grandmothers.
Jonathan Rosen is the author of the novels Joy Comes in the Morning and Eve{\textquoteright}s Apple. His essays have appeared in The New York Times and The New Yorker, among other publications. He is the editorial director of Nextbook. The Talmud and the Internet, in which Jonathan Rosen examines the contradiction of his inheritance as an American and a Jew, is a moving and exhilarating mediation on modern technology and ancient religious impulses. Blending memoir, religious history, and literary reflection, Rosen explores the remarkable parallels between a page of Talmud and the home page of a website and reflects on the contrasting lives and deaths of his American and European grandmothers.
},
	url = {http://books.google.com/books?id=zyT-WIZc0iwC\&printsec=frontcover$\#$v=onepage\&q\&f=false},
	author = {Rosen, Jonathan}
}
@mastersthesis {1248,
	title = {TV : Satan or Savior? : Protestant responses to television in the 1950s},
	volume = {The Divinity School},
	year = {1999},
	school = {University of Chicago},
	type = {Doctoral Thesis},
	keywords = {1950, communication research, Mass media, media and religion, Protestant, Television},
	url = {http://www.worldcat.org/title/tv-satan-or-savior-protestant-responses-to-television-in-the-1950s/oclc/43658625},
	author = {Michele Ann Rosenthal}
}
@inbook {2069,
	title = {On Pomegranates and Etrogs: Internet Filters as Practices of Media Ambivalence among National Religious Jews in Israel},
	booktitle = {Digital Judaism: Jewish Negotiations with Digital Media and Culture},
	year = {2015},
	pages = {145-160},
	publisher = {Routledge},
	organization = {Routledge},
	address = {New York},
	abstract = {In the contemporary environment of media saturation, users are continually making choices about the types and kinds of media technologies to employ or avoid at different moments and places in their everyday lives. Some of these choices are based on simple technical or practical criterion (i.e., my smartphone is easy to access during my daily commute), while others are informed by a sense of decorum (i.e., one should not text during a funeral) or the idea that self-imposed limits of media use will lead to a more balanced lifestyle (i.e., no e-mail after work hours). Among such abundance, it is nearly impossible to be an early adopter or enthusiastic user of all media-users are constantly making choices (i.e., to text rather than telephone, to invest in a laptop but not in a smartphone, etc.), and through these choices they express ambivalence about certain media and enthusiasm about others. Users{\textquoteright} deliberations and discussions about these choices and practices are increasingly employed as identity markers (Hoover, Clark and Alters, 2004; Seiter, 2003). Media consumption and avoidance of specific contents or technologies are not only practical choices but also are expressions of identification with a specific class, ethnic, religious or spiritual community.},
	keywords = {internet filters, Israel, Jews, religious},
	issn = {978-0415736244},
	url = {https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781317817345/chapters/10.4324\%2F9781315818597-13},
	author = {Rosenthal, M and Ribak, R}
}
@article {2808,
	title = {The Dynamics of Religion, Media, and Community},
	journal = {Online - Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet},
	year = {2019},
	abstract = {This article introduces the special issue, {\textquotedblleft}The Dynamics of Religion, Media, and Community{\textquotedblright}. It examines the shifting faith in the concept of religious community in the social studies of religion and calls attention to the normative expectations connected to the rise of new forms of communities in the age of the Internet. Against this backdrop, it discusses strengths and weakness of selected approaches in the study of media and religion and suggests future research pathways to which the articles in the special issue provide important contributions.},
	url = {https://heiup.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/index.php/religions/article/view/23945},
	author = {Rota, Andrea and Kruger, Oliver}
}
@article {2150,
	title = {{\textquotedblleft}Electronic Jihad{\textquotedblright}: The Internet as Al Qaeda{\textquoteright}s Catalyst for Global Terror},
	journal = {Studies in Conflict \& Terrorism },
	volume = {40},
	year = {2016},
	pages = {10-23},
	abstract = {The Internet has emerged as a key technology for Al Qaeda and other jihadist movements waging their so-called electronic jihad across the Middle East and globally, with digital multiplier effects. This study will examine the evolving doctrine of {\textquotedblleft}electronic jihad{\textquotedblright} and its impact on the radicalization of Muslims in Western diaspora communities The study describes Internet-based websites that served as online libraries and repositories for jihadist literature, as platforms for extremist preachers and as forums for radical discourse. Furthermore, the study will then detail how Internet connectivity has come to play a more direct operational role for jihadi terrorist-related purposes, most notably for inciting prospective cadres to action; for recruiting jihadist operatives and fighters; for providing virtual training in tactical methods and manufacture of explosives; for terrorism financing; and for actual planning and preparations for specific terror attacks. Whereas contemporary jihadist militants may be shifting from the World Wide Web to social media, such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter for messaging and communications, nevertheless the Internet-based electronic jihad remains a significant catalyst for promoting jihadist activism and for facilitating terrorist operations.},
	keywords = {Al Qaeda, electronic, internet, jihad},
	url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1057610X.2016.1157403},
	author = {Rudner, M}
}
@article {1243,
	title = {Ethnic Revival, and the Reappearance of Indigenous Religions in the ROC : the Use of the Internet in the Construction of Taiwanese Identities},
	journal = {Online {\textendash} Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet},
	volume = {02.1},
	year = {2006},
	chapter = {41},
	abstract = {Michael Rudolph{\textquoteright}s article Nativism, Ethnic Revival, and the Reappearance of Indigenous Religions in the ROC: The Use of the Internet in the Construction of Taiwanese Identities deals with rituals presented on Taiwanese Websites in the context of identity construction. Since the mid-nineties, long abandoned and very un-Chinese ritual practices suddenly seemed to become popular again in China{\textquoteright}s runaway-province Taiwan: in spite of the fact that most of the island{\textquoteright}s 2\% of indigenous population had been Christianized for half a century, intellectual elites of different aboriginal groups now referred to ancestor-gods, tattooing and even headhunting again as essential parts of their own traditional repertoire, often making abundant use of the Internet in order to propagate these convictions to a broader Chinese speaking public. This contribution not only scrutinises the political context that made such a development possible, but also assesses this practice in terms of the identity construction of the specific ethnic groups.},
	keywords = {aboriginal groups, Digital Religion, Ethnic, identity, Indigenous Religions, internet, online communication, religion online, Ritual, Taiwan},
	url = {http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/ojs/index.php/religions/article/view/375/351},
	author = {Michael Rudolph}
}
@mastersthesis {1305,
	title = {Virtual Spirituality: The Negotiation and (Re)-Presentation of Psychic-Spiritual Identity on the Internet},
	year = {2012},
	school = {University of York},
	type = {PhD thesis},
	abstract = {This research is an examination of how people engaged in psychic and spiritual interests use the internet to participate as a group through social media. Exploring how individuals take advantage of the opportunities afforded by the internet to pursue their interest in psychic spirituality reveals different ways of participating and interacting online. The ways in which individuals present their psychic-spiritual selves online, how they negotiate their online identities and make sense of their culture, is also examined. 
 
 Using an eclectic methodological approach, this research used a combination of ethnographic methods and autoethnography to explore online psychic-spiritual culture. Documentary analysis of website text and images, together with participant observation, both covert and overt, were used to examine websites. Facebook interaction and psychic readings in online discussion board forums based on psychic-spiritual interests were analysed using discourse analysis. Autoethnographic self-reflections were also collected and analysed in order to capture an intrapsychic perspective of psychic reading culture.
 
 It was found that psychic practitioners use their websites to communicate the message that they are credible psychic readers whilst Facebook was found to be a site in which, through a delicate interplay of activity and performance, identity is constructed through interaction between the psychic reader and their Facebook friends. Psychic-spiritual discussion board forums meanwhile are sites of situated learning in which learner psychic readers learn to become appropriate members of the psychic-spiritual milieu. Also, although the sociological analytic mind does not easily accommodate the nature of psychic reading, the study did manage to obtain an intrapsychic perspective on psychic readings. Thus, members of the psychic-spiritual milieu have taken full advantage of the internet to pursue their interest in psychic reading culture.
},
	keywords = {communities of practice, Facebook, online forums, psychic practices, psychic spirituality, virtual spirituality},
	url = {http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/3794/},
	author = {Ryan, Tamlyn}
}
