Digital religion, social media, and culture: perspectives, practices, and futures

1. Introduction : Religion 2.0? : relational and hybridizing pathways in religion, social media, and culture / Pauline Hope Cheong & Charles Ess

Part I. Theorizing Digital Religion. 2. Dreams of church in cyberspace / Knut Lundby

3. The immanent internet redux / Bernie Hogan and Barry Wellman

4. New media, Wikifaith and church brandversation : a media ecology perspective / Bala A. Musa & Ibrahim M. Ahmadu

5. How religious communities negotiate new media religiously / Heidi Campbell

6. When Pinocchio goes to church : exploring an avatar religion / Jørgen Staarup

Part II. Empirical Investigations. 7. Pastors on the internet : online responses to secularization / Peter Fischer-Nielsen

8. PICTURE: The adoption of ICT by Catholic priests / Lorenzo Cantoni, Emanuele Rapetti, Stefano Tardini, Sara Vannini, and Daniel Arasa

9. Voting "present" : religious organizational groups on Facebook / Mark D. Johns

10. "Keeping the line open and warm" : an activist Danish church and its presence on Facebook / Stine Lomborg and Charles Ess

11. Twitter of faith : understanding social media networking and microblogging rituals as relgious practices / Pauline Hope Cheong

12. Creating church online : networks and collectives in contemporary Christianity / Tim Hutchings

Part III. Historical and Theological Examinations. 13. "Let there be digital networks and God will provide growth?" : comparing aims and hopes of 19th-century and post-millennial Christianity / Stefan Gelfgren

14. "A moderate diversity of books?" : the challenge of new media to the practice of Christian theology / Peter Horsfield

15. Clocks and computers : the doctrine of "imago Dei," technologies, and humanism / Sam Han

16. Toward a theology of the internet : place, relationship, and sin / Lynne M. Baab

17. Conclusion : Religion in a digital age : future developments and research directions / Peter Fischer-Nielsen and Stefan Gelfgren.