Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction and Overview 1
4. Part 1: Digital Methodologies of Religion, Belief and Myth
5. A Virtual Trinity 25
6. Studying Religion and YouTube 49
7. Studying Muslim Identity Online in Post-9/11 America: Results and Implications for Accessing Stigmatized Minority Groups 67
8. Part 2: Digital Worldviews
9. “Crap, we needed a god . . . ”: Religion, Videogames, and the Digital Social 93
10. Emotion, Ritual and Rules of Feeling in the Study of Digital Religion 110
11. Shari’a in Cyberspace: An analysis of Australian and US Internet Sites 129
12. Part 3: Digital Public Spheres
13. Public Atheism and ‘Islamophobia’ on Twitter 153
14. The Study of Post-Secularization through the Digital Social 178
15. ‘No life’ Eschatology: The Incorporation and Avatarisation of Digital Eremitism 197
16. Index 219