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REL 3940 (4940): Digital Religions
This page features resources for the course REL-3940/4940: Digital Religions. You can find more by searching the Library catalogue, or look up databases and journals by title.
The Digital Religion Reading List is a continuously updated document listing books, articles, and other resources pertaining to the study of digital religion. Materials that are not available through the Library catalogue may be requested through interlibrary loan.
Suggested Keywords:
- Artificial intelligence religious aspects
- Church and mass media
- Digital communications religious aspects
- Digital humanities
- Digital media religious aspects
- Internet religious aspects
- Mass media in religion
- Social media religious aspects
- Technology religious aspects
Books
Scholarly Journals
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Journal for Religion, Film, and MediaA platform for scholarly research in the broad field of religion and media, with a particular interest in audio-visual and interactive forms of communication. It engages with the challenges arising from the dynamic development of media technologies and their interaction with religion in an interdisciplinary key.
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Journal for the Study of Religions and IdeologiesPublishes interdisciplinary approaches of religion engaged with religious studies, philosophy of religions, ethics, political philosophy and political science, anthropology, sociology, interreligious dialogue and communications theory.
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Journal of Contemporary ReligionAims to document and evaluate the anthropological, sociological, psychological, and philosophical aspects of emerging manifestations of religiosity in any part of the world—whether within innovative movements or mainstream institutions.
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Journal of Media and ReligionA juried journal publishing original research that addresses how religion as a social and cultural phenomenon broadens understanding of mass communication and society.
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Journal of Religion and Popular CultureCommitted to the academic exploration, analysis and interpretation, from a range of disciplinary perspectives, of the interrelations and interactions between religion and religious expression and popular culture, broadly defined as the products of contemporary mass culture.
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New Media & SocietyEngages in critical discussions of the key issues arising from the scale and speed of new media development, drawing on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and on both theoretical and empirical research.
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Sociology of ReligionThe journal publishes original (not previously published) work of exceptional quality and interest related to the sociological study of religion from all parts of the world without regard to substantive focus, theoretical orientation, or methodological approach.
Databases
AtlaSerials [EBSCOhost]
AtlaSerials combines an index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's online collection of major religion and theology journals. It includes citations from journals, essay, multi-author works, book review and multimedia. This database is produced by the American Theological Library Association.
The Religious Studies Project
An open-access organization producing engaging and accessible resources for the contemporary study of religion.
The Center for Religion and Media at New York University
The Centre is committed to developing interdisciplinary, cross-cultural knowledge of how religious practices and ideas are shaped and spread through a variety of media, with an interest in how media themselves function as commodified forms of entertainment and digital connection to provide communal and personal identities in ways usually associated with religion.