[ecrea] The International Conference on Digital Religion

*DEADLINE EXTENSION: July 20, 2011*

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*The International Conference on Digital Religion *



January 12-15, 2012



*The Center for Media, Religion and Culture *

*University of Colorado-Boulder *



‘Digital Religion” today includes a myriad of examples: an evangelical mommy
blogging

community, a Jewish online dating service, a virtual pilgrimage of the
Muslim ritual of

Hajj, offering Poojas on an online Hindu Temple service, a YouTube series of
an ex-

Catholic nun, the invention of Kosher phones, playing "Al-Quraysh", a Muslim
video

game, an Anglican Church on Second Life, or a religious iPhone app like
iTalk to God.

What is striking about the proliferation of this digital religious culture
is not only the

creative adoption of new technologies, but also the challenges and
possibilities these

technologies offer for religious meaning-making in modern society. Both
individuals and

religious institutions today vigorously appropriate interactive forms of
media generating

new religious deliberative spaces, religious publics and counterpublics, and
competing

sources of authority, and collapsing in the process old boundaries of what
constitutes the

religious realm.


This international conference will bring together scholars of media and
religion and

producers of digital religion content from a variety of religious traditions
to reflect on the

implications of these developments. Papers and panels may address, but
should not be

limited to questions such as:


Theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of digital religion


Relationships between offline and online forms of religious practice

The emergence of networked religious communities

The cultivation of authority and legitimacy in digital religious spaces

Digitization of religion and the implications for scriptural text
dissemination and reception

Mediatization of religion in digital spaces

Technological mediation and religious authenticity

Representations of religion in digital platforms

Intersections of religion and the market

Influence on the religious public sphere

Questions of mundane, "banal" or "implicit" religion

Digital religious transnationalism

Religious aesthetics and sensations in digital forms

Religions and spiritualities in social networking

Generational and demographic difference and issues

Please send a 300-word abstract by *July 20, 2011* to
(MediaReligion /at/ Colorado.EDU)



Invited speakers include:



-Stig Hjarvard, Department of Film&  Media Studies at the University of
Copenhagen



-Jeremy Stolow, Department of Communication Studies at Concordia
University,

Montréal



-Heidi Campbell, Department of Communication at Texas A&M University,



For further information and comments please contact Stewart Hoover at

(stewart.hoover /at/ colorado.edu) or Nabil Echchaibi at
(nabil.echchaibi /at/ colorado.edu)

A detailed conference Website will be available shortly at
http://cmrc.colorado.edu/


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