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Religion and technology: refiguring place, space, identity and community
Author(s) -
Kong Lily
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/1475-4762.00046
Subject(s) - poetics , nexus (standard) , sociology , cyberspace , politics , identity (music) , mediation , space (punctuation) , aesthetics , gender studies , epistemology , social science , political science , the internet , law , art , philosophy , linguistics , literature , poetry , world wide web , computer science , embedded system
This paper reviews the literature on the religion–technology nexus, drawing up a research agenda and offering preliminary empirical insights. First, I stress the need to explore the new politics of space as a consequence of technological development, emphasizing questions about the role of religion in effecting a form of religious (neo)imperialism, and uneven access to techno‐religious spaces. Second, I highlight the need to examine the politics of identity and community, since cyberspace is not an isotropic surface. Third, I underscore the need to engage with questions about the poetics of religious community as social relations become mediated by technology. Finally, I focus on questions about the poetics of place, particularly the technological mediation of rituals.