...Carroll Campbell who warned that: The same freedom from commitment that makes online faith communities appealing also can make them isolating and misleading. Technology, when used as a substitute rather...
...and sexuality. The social capital of traditional authority is broadly declining. New media encourage people to identify affinity groups, to seek out and participate in virtual associations in which they...
...ideas, never about critical ideas. So the language of critical ideas was English… Why would I speak to several thousand in Yiddish? Hasidic Rebel contrasted critical thinking done in English...
...compelling, commercial advertising’s debts to American Protestantism. When I began studying public display almost two decades ago, R. Stephen Warner’s proposal for religion as a “social space for cultural pluralism”...
...of self because they enable us to see other selves as real, even when these selves are presented only in a virtual form. People from vastly different belief systems can...
Bruce Falconer examines the work of scholars who engage would-be terrorists in religious dialogue through online forums: There’s a holy war online. On one side is a network of Al...
...of the journal, writes: Religion & Politics is an online journal that focuses on one of the most contested issues of our time: the role religion plays in the civic...
