Introduction: Welcome to the Online Church
1 A Brief History of Cyberchurch
2 Making Sense of Online Churches
3 Methodology: How to Study an Online Church
4 Church of Fools
5 i-church
6 St Pixels
7 The Anglican Cathedral of Second Life
8 Church Online at LifeChurch.tv
9 Creating Church Online: Media Design and Media Logic
10 Being Church Online: Networks and Existential Terrains
Conclusion: What Happened to the Online Church?
Biography
Tim Hutchings is a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute for Media Studies at Stockholm University, Sweden. He is a sociologist of digital religion, and his research has included studies of online churches, digital Bibles, evangelism and pilgrimage. His current work focuses on death, grief and memory in digital environments, as part of the Existential Terrains research program (et.ims.su.se) funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation and Stockholm University. He is the editor of the Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture (jrmdc.com).
