This anthology - the first of its kind in eight years - collects some of the best and most
current research and reflection on the complex interactions between religion and
computer-mediated communication (CMC). The contributions cohere around the central question:
how will core religious understandings of identity community and authority shape and be
(re)shaped by the communicative possibilities of Web 2.0? The authors gathered here address
these questions in three distinct ways: through contemporary empirical research on how diverse
traditions across the globe seek to take up the technologies and affordances of contemporary
CMC through investigations that place these contemporary developments in larger historical and
theological contexts and through careful reflection on the theoretical dimensions of research
on religion and CMC. In their introductory and concluding essays the editors uncover and
articulate the larger intersections and patterns suggested by individual chapters including
trajectories for future research.
