@book {1288,
	title = {Practicing Religion in the Age of the Media: Explorations in Media, Religion, and Culture },
	year = {2013},
	publisher = {Columbia University Press},
	organization = {Columbia University Press},
	address = {New York},
	abstract = {increasingly, the religious practices people engage in and the ways they talk about what is meaningful or sacred take place in the context of media culture{\textemdash}in the realm of the so-called secular. 

Focusing on this intersection of the sacred and the secular, this volume gathers together the work of media experts, religious historians, sociologists of religion, and authorities on American studies and art history. Topics range from Islam on the Internet to the quasi-religious practices of Elvis fans, from the uses of popular culture by the Salvation Army in its early years to the uses of interactive media technologies at the Simon Wiesenthal Center{\textquoteright}s Beit Hashoah Museum of Tolerance. The issues that the essays address include the public/private divide, the distinctions between the sacred and profane, and how to distinguish between the practices that may be termed {\textquotedblleft}religious{\textquotedblright} and those that may not.},
	keywords = {Beit Hashoah, popular culture, quasi-religious practices, Sacred, Salvation Army, Secular},
	url = {http://books.google.com/books?id=9aDg8Ih78QAC\&dq=religion+and+internet\&lr=\&source=gbs_navlinks_s},
	author = {Stewart M. Hoover and Lynn Schofield Clark}
}
@inbook {1253,
	title = {Cybersociality: Connecting Digital Fun to the Play of God},
	booktitle = {Halos and Avatars: Playing Video Games With God},
	year = {2010},
	publisher = {Westminster John Knox Press},
	organization = {Westminster John Knox Press},
	chapter = {12},
	keywords = {cyber, cybersociality, Digital Religion, digital technologies, Digital Worlds, Immersion, popular culture, theology, transcendentalize secularity, video games},
	url = {http://www.academia.edu/366940/_Cybersociality_Connecting_Digital_Cultures_to_the_Play_of_God},
	author = {John W. Morehead}
}
@article {1286,
	title = {Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies},
	abstract = {Shofar, a quarterly, interdisciplinary journal of Jewish studies, is the official journal of the Midwest and Western Jewish Studies Associations. Under the editorship of Zev Garber and Peter Haas and a distinguished editorial board, Shofar ranges far and wide in a multidisciplinary world that spans four thousand years. It publishes original, scholarly work for a general university audience and reviews a wide range of recent books in Judaica.},
	keywords = {diaspora, history, Jewish Community, Jewish studies, Jews, journal, Judaica, popular culture},
	url = {http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/shofar/},
	author = {Purdue University Press}
}
@article {287,
	title = {Tweeting Prayers and Communicating Grief over Michael Jackson Online},
	journal = { Bulletin of Science, Technology, \& Society},
	volume = {30},
	year = {2010},
	pages = {328-340},
	abstract = {Death and bereavement are human experiences that new media helps facilitate alongside creating new social grief practices that occur online. This study investigated how people{\textquoteright}s postings and tweets facilitated the communication of grief after pop music icon Michael Jackson died. Drawing upon past grief research, religion and new media studies, a thematic analysis of 1,046 messages was conducted on three mediated sites (Twitter, TMZ.com, and Facebook). Results suggested that social media served as grieving spaces for people to accept Jackson{\textquoteright}s death rather than denying it or expressing anger over his passing. The findings also illustrate how interactive exchanges online helped recycle news and {\textquotedblleft}resurrected{\textquotedblright} the life of Jackson. Additionally, as fans of deceased celebrities create and disseminate web-based memorials, new social media practices like {\textquotedblleft}Michael Mondays{\textquotedblright} synchronize tweets within everyday life rhythms and foster practices to hasten the grieving process. },
	keywords = {blogs, celebrity, internet, microblogging, popular culture, religion, social media},
	doi = {10.1177/0270467610380010},
	url = {http://www.paulinehopecheong.com},
	author = {Sanderson, James and Pauline Hope Cheong}
}
@article {383,
	title = {Resident evil: Horror film and the construction of religious identity in contemporary media culture},
	journal = {Colloquium},
	volume = {37},
	year = {2005},
	keywords = {media, popular culture, religion},
	author = {Teusner, P.}
}
