Center on Religion & the Professions

Improving religious literacy among professionals.

Computers: Recent research

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  • Foltz, Franz A and Frederick A. Foltz. “Technology, Religion, and Justice: The Problems of Disembedded and Disembodied Law.” Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society. 26, no. 6 (2006): 463-71.
  • Starrett, Gregory. “Islam in the Digital Age: E-Jihad, Online Fatwas, and Cyber Islamic Environments.” History of Religions. 46, no. 3 (2007): 268-71.
  • Campbell, Heidi. “Religion and the Internet in the Israeli Orthodox context.” Israel Affairs. Vol. 17, No. 3 (July 2011): 364-83.
  • Cheong, Pauline Hope; Jessie P.H. Poon; Shirlena Huang and Irene Casas. “The Internet Highway and Religious Communities: Mapping and Contesting Spaces in Religion-Online.” The Information Society. Vol. 25, no. 5 (Sept. 2009): 291-302.

Computers: Articles

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  • “Caring through technology: using e-mail for Christian pastoral care” by Stella Mills. Interacting with Computers (2010).
  • “Technology, Religion, and Justice: The Problems of Disembedded and Disembodied Law” by Franz A. Foltz and Frederick A. Foltz. Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society. 26, no. 6 (2006): 463-71.
  • “Islam in the Digital Age: E-Jihad, Online Fatwas, and Cyber Islamic Environments” by Gregory Starrett. History of Religions. 46, no. 3 (2007): 268-71.
  • “Religion colors Americans’ views of nanotechnology.” Biotech Business Week, March 3, 2008.
  • “Cross-cultural perspectives on religion and computer-mediated communication” by C. Ess. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 12(3), 2007
  • “Online for the faithful” by Darren Osborne. The Courier Mail (Australia), April 2, 2008.
  • “Pope launches own Facebook page; But no, you can’t become a papal friend, and you can’t poke him” by Reuters. The Gazette (Montreal), May 24, 2009
  • “Religion sells computers in India Intel researcher claims” by Nick Farrell. ITExaminer.com, Jan. 5, 2009.
  • “A Capitalist Venturing in the World of Computers and Religion” by Laura M. Holson. The New York Times, Jan. 3, 2000.
  • “Cyberspace as Sacred Space: Communicating Religion on Computer Networks” by Stephen D. O’Leary. Journal of the American Academy of Religion, LX1V/4.
  • “Jesus Online (cover story).” Time Mgazine, Dec. 16, 1996.
  • “The relationship between religious expression and outcomes in online support groups: A partial replication.” by Morton A. Lieberman. Computers in Human Behavior, 25:3 (2009): 690-694.
  • “The New Virtual (Inter)Face of African Pentecostalism. Society, 46:6 (2009): 496-503.
  • “How the Internet Shapes Religious Life, or the Medium Is Itself the Message” by J.M. van der Laan. Bulletin of Science, Technology &Society, 29:4 (2009): 272-277.

Computers: Books

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  • Technology and Religion: Remaining Human in a Co-created World. Noreen Herzfeld. Univ. of Chicago Press, 2009.
  • Give Me That Online Religion. Brenda E. Brasher. Rutgers University Press, 2004.
  • TechGnosis: Myth, Magic & Mysticism in the Age of Information. Erik Davis. Gale Group, 2004
  • Islam In The Digital Age: E-Jihad, Online Fatwas and Cyber Islamic Environments. Gary R. Bunt. Pluto Press, 2003
  • Rewired: Youth Ministry in an Age of IM and MySpace. Peggy Kendall. Judson Press, 2007.
  • God from the Machine: Artificial Intelligence Models of Religious Cognition. William Sims Bainbridge. AltaMira Press, 2006.
  • Exploring Religious Community Online: We Are One in the Network. Heidi Campbell. Lang, Peter Publishing, Incorporated, 2005.
  • Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About: MIT Lectures on God and Computers. Donald Ervin Knuth. Center for the Study of Language and Information, 2001.
  • Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet. Lorne & Dawson. Routledge, 2004.