TY - JOUR T1 - Online religion as Lived Religion: Methodological Issues in the Study of Religious Participation on the Internet JF - Online-Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet Y1 - 2005 A1 - Helland, Christopher KW - internet KW - Online KW - Participation KW - religion AB - In his article Christopher Helland proposes a more comprehensive framework for his theoretical distinction for online religion and religion online. When he developed this typology in 1999, Helland recognized a clear distinction between religious Web sites where people could act with unrestricted freedom and a high level of interactivity (online religion) versus the majority of religious Web sites, which seemed to provide only religious information and no interaction (religion online). He now advances the religion online / online religion framework by drawing from the ongoing critique of his earlier work. He concludes that many religious Web sites today provide both information and an area where this information can be lived and communicated. This occurs on the Internet where Web sites try to incorporate both an information zone and interaction zone in a single site or, more commonly, where popular unofficial Web sites provide the area for online religion, while the official religious Web site supplies religion online. In cases where institutional religious organizations do not support online religion he assumes that it may be due to their perception of the Internet as a tool for communicating rather than an extension of our social world. VL - 1 UR - http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/volltexte/2005/5823/ IS - 1 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Online religion as Lived Religion: Methodological Issues in the Study of Religious Participation on the Internet JF - Online-Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet Y1 - 2005 A1 - Helland, Christopher KW - internet KW - Online KW - Participation KW - religion AB - In his article Christopher Helland proposes a more comprehensive framework for his theoretical distinction for online religion and religion online. When he developed this typology in 1999, Helland recognized a clear distinction between religious Web sites where people could act with unrestricted freedom and a high level of interactivity (online religion) versus the majority of religious Web sites, which seemed to provide only religious information and no interaction (religion online). He now advances the religion online / online religion framework by drawing from the ongoing critique of his earlier work. He concludes that many religious Web sites today provide both information and an area where this information can be lived and communicated. This occurs on the Internet where Web sites try to incorporate both an information zone and interaction zone in a single site or, more commonly, where popular unofficial Web sites provide the area for online religion, while the official religious Web site supplies religion online. In cases where institutional religious organizations do not support online religion he assumes that it may be due to their perception of the Internet as a tool for communicating rather than an extension of our social world. VL - 1 UR - http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/volltexte/2005/5823/ IS - 1 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Online religion as Lived Religion: Methodological Issues in the Study of Religious Participation on the Internet JF - Online-Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet Y1 - 2005 A1 - Helland, Christopher KW - internet KW - Online KW - Participation KW - religion AB - In his article Christopher Helland proposes a more comprehensive framework for his theoretical distinction for online religion and religion online. When he developed this typology in 1999, Helland recognized a clear distinction between religious Web sites where people could act with unrestricted freedom and a high level of interactivity (online religion) versus the majority of religious Web sites, which seemed to provide only religious information and no interaction (religion online). He now advances the religion online / online religion framework by drawing from the ongoing critique of his earlier work. He concludes that many religious Web sites today provide both information and an area where this information can be lived and communicated. This occurs on the Internet where Web sites try to incorporate both an information zone and interaction zone in a single site or, more commonly, where popular unofficial Web sites provide the area for online religion, while the official religious Web site supplies religion online. In cases where institutional religious organizations do not support online religion he assumes that it may be due to their perception of the Internet as a tool for communicating rather than an extension of our social world. VL - 1 UR - http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/volltexte/2005/5823/ IS - 1 ER - TY - CHAP T1 - Online-Religion/Religion-Online and Virtual Communities T2 - Religion on the Internet: Research prospects and promises Y1 - 2000 A1 - Helland, Christopher KW - Online-religion KW - religion-online KW - virtual communities AB - 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 Online provides 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 the Pew Internet and American Life ProjectExecutiveSummary, the most comprehensive and widely cited study on how Americans pursue religion online, and Steven O'Leary's field-defining Cyberspace as SacredSpace. JF - Religion on the Internet: Research prospects and promises PB - JAI Press CY - New York UR - http://books.google.com/books?id=iS80IHp0cDwC&pg=PA105&lpg=PA105&dq=Online-religion/religion-online+and+virtual+communitas&source=bl&ots=gwOoakhqVV&sig=_vZdggLUGLfNebPjfzacEuvReLA&hl=en&ei=l1y8ToPTOqfO2gWDhp2aBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved= U1 - J. K. Hadden, D. E. Cowan ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Online religion as Lived Religion: Methodological Issues in the Study of Religious Participation on the Internet JF - Online-Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet Y1 - 2005 A1 - Helland, Christopher KW - internet KW - Online KW - Participation KW - religion AB - In his article Christopher Helland proposes a more comprehensive framework for his theoretical distinction for online religion and religion online. When he developed this typology in 1999, Helland recognized a clear distinction between religious Web sites where people could act with unrestricted freedom and a high level of interactivity (online religion) versus the majority of religious Web sites, which seemed to provide only religious information and no interaction (religion online). He now advances the religion online / online religion framework by drawing from the ongoing critique of his earlier work. He concludes that many religious Web sites today provide both information and an area where this information can be lived and communicated. This occurs on the Internet where Web sites try to incorporate both an information zone and interaction zone in a single site or, more commonly, where popular unofficial Web sites provide the area for online religion, while the official religious Web site supplies religion online. In cases where institutional religious organizations do not support online religion he assumes that it may be due to their perception of the Internet as a tool for communicating rather than an extension of our social world. VL - 1 UR - http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/volltexte/2005/5823/ IS - 1 ER -