Contents
1. Introduction: Waves of Research
Morten T. Højsgaard and Margit Warburg
Part One: Coming to Terms with Religion and Cyberspace
2. The Mediation of Religious Experience in Cyberspace
Lorne L. Dawson
3. Utopian and Dystopian Possibilities of Networked Religion in the New Millennium
Stephen D. O’Leary
4. Cyber-religion: On the Cutting Edge between the Virtual and the Real
Morten T. Højsgaard
Part Two: Religious Authority and Conflict in the Age of the Internet
5. Crossing the Boundary: New Challenges to Religious Authority and Control as a Consequence of Access to the Internet
Eileen Barker
6. Seeking for Truth: Plausibility Alignment on a Baha'i Email List
David Piff and Margit Warburg
7. A Symbolic Universe: Information Terrorism and New Religions in Cyberspace
Massimo Introvigne
Part Three: Constructing Religious Identities and Communities Online
8. Constructing Religious Identity on the Internet
Mia Lövheim and Alf G. Linderman
9. Online Buddhist Club: An Alternative Religious Organization in the Information Age
Mun-Cho Kim
10. Virtual as Contextual: A Net News Theology
Debbie Herring
11. Christian Web Usage: Motives and Desires
Michael J. Laney
12. Digital Waco: Branch Davidian Virtual Communities after the Waco Tragedy
Mark MacWilliams
Biography
Morten T. Højsgaard is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History of Religions at the University of Copenhagen, and is editor of the journal Den digtale kirke (The Digital Church). Margit Warburg is Associate Professor of Sociology of Religion at the University of Copenhagen. Her books include Baha'i (2004) and New Religions and New Religiosity (1998, co-edited with Eileen Barker).
