Mediating piety : technology and religion in contemporary Asia / / edited by Francis Khek Gee Lim.

A timely and groundbreaking work, here is a comprehensive analysis of the interactions between religion and technology in Asia today. How does the use of technology affect people's experience of spirituality and the formation of religious identity and community? How do developments in the lates...

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Superior document:Social sciences in Asia, v. 26
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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Social sciences in Asia ; v. 26.
Physical Description:1 online resource (252 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Charismatic technology / Francis Khek Gee Lim
  • Religion in the age of technology
  • Technologies, religion and social mediation / Bryan S. Turner
  • The fate of God in the age of technology / Anton Sevilla
  • Technology, religion and nationalism
  • A message from Ashabirin : high technology and political Islam in Indonesia / Sulfi kar Amir
  • Powerpointing Islam : form and spiritual reform in Reformasi Indonesia / Daromir Rudnyckyj
  • Mediating piety
  • A spectacle of worship : technology, modernity and the rise of the Christian megachurch / Joseph Nathan Cruz
  • The "short-waved faith" : Christian broadcasting and Protestant conversion of the Hmong in Vietnam / Ngo Thi Thanh Tam
  • 'New media', religious discourse, community
  • Shopping for God : media and religion in Singapore / Robin Chee and James Chen
  • The new face of global evangelism : virtualizing spiritual experience / Jayeel Serrano Cornelio
  • Religious ecology on the internet: a case study of Tibetan Buddhism / Low Yuen Wei.