The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion

Heidi A. Campbell is Professor of Communication, affiliate faculty in Religious Studies and a Presidential Impact Fellow at Texas A&M University. She is also director of the Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture Studies, and a founder of Digital Religion studies. She is author of over 100 articles and eleven books including When Religion Meets New Media (2010), Digital Religion (2013/2021) and Digital Creatives and the Rethinking Religious Authority (2021). Pauline Hope Cheong is Professor at the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication and affiliate faculty at the Center on Technology, Data and Society, and the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University. She has published more than 100 articles and books and has co-led funded research projects on technology, religion, and culture, including AI and governance.

In the research on the edge of digitality and religion Heidí Campbeel is a familiar name. [...] The Oxford Handbook of Religion (2024), with its more than 660 pages and 37 chapters, is divided into 6 main parts.[...] Its themes illustrate the depth of this book, in which all religions of the world are portrayed, as well as right across human existence.

• 1. Introduction to the Study of Digital ReligionHeidi A. Campbell and Pauline Hope Cheong Part I: Religious Engagement with Social Media 2. Christianity and Digital Media: Different Traditions and Different AimsStefan Gelfgren 3. Buddhism and Digital MediaDaniel Veidlinger 4. Islam and Digital ReligionIbrahim N. Abusharif 5. Past, Present and Potential Futures of Digital Hinduism ResearchXenia Zeiler 6. Digital JudaismOren Golan 7. Sikh Digital MediaJasjit Singh 8. New Religious Movements and the InternetMargarita Simon Guillory 9. Secularism, Atheism and Digital MediaTeemu Taira Part II: Explorations in Religious Community and the Internet 10. Digital Contours of the Black Church in North America and Community OnlineErika Gault 11. Mosques and churches and technology in Southeast AsiaTan Meng Yoe 12. Religion and Online Community in African ContextsBala A. Musa and Agnes Lucy Lando 13. Digital Diasporas and The Religious Reproduction Of "Home"Orlando Woods Part III: Performing Religious Identity Online 14. Navigating Religious Identity and Embodiment in Digital GamesJohn W. Borchert 15. Gender and Agency in Digital ReligionMia Lövheim 16. Hidden Religious Identities Online: Digital Religion and LGBTQIA+ IndividualsRuth Tsuria 17. Islam, Digital Media, and IdentityFazlul Rahman 18. Muslims Enacting Identity: Gender Through Digital MediaEva F. Nisa 19. Digital Materiality in Protestant Evangelical ChristianityRobbie B. H. Goh Part IV: Questions of Religious Authority in Digital Contexts 20. Authority and Communication: Dialectical Tensions and Paradoxes in Religious OrganizingPauline Hope Cheong 21. Approaching Religious Authority Through the Rise of New Leadership Roles OnlineHeidi A. Campbell 22. Challenges in Jewish Communities OnlineChen Sabag-Ben Porat, Hananel Rosenberg, and Menahem Blondheim 23. Mediatization and Religious Authority in ScandinaviaHenrik Reintoft Christensen 24. Religious Populism in the Digital AgeMagali do Nascimento Cunha 25. Religious Authority and Participatory Social Action in Indian NetworksBenson Rajan Part V: Virtue Formation and Ethical Considerations about Technology 26. Value Formations through Digital GamingGregory Price Grieve, Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, and Xenia Zeiler 27. Building Virtue Through App Cultures: How Do Digital Religions Provide the Resources as Ideological, Social, and Transcendent Contexts?Sarah A. Schnitker 28. Bible Reading and Interpretation in a Digital AgePeter M. Phillips 29. Considering Religious Education and Online Pedagogy: The (Trans)Formative Potential of Theological Higher EducationKutter Callaway, Tommy Lister, and Sara Wells Part VI: Religious Reflections on Emerging Technology and Our Digital Future 30. Digital Religion: A Methodological ApproachJohanna Sumiala 31. Theoretical Approaches in Digital Religion StudiesGiulia Evolvi 32. Posthumanism and Digital ReligionOliver Krüger 33. Robots, Ethics, and Digital Religion: Initial ConsiderationsSimon Balle and Charles Ess 34. Death, Religion, and Digital MediaMaggi Savin-Baden 35. Pocket Memorials: Digital Death and the SmartphoneCandi K. Cann 36. Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and ReligionMohammad Yaqub Chaudhari 37. Digital Religion Futures: Propositions and Complexities in the Now and Not YetPauline Hope Cheong and Heidi A. Campbell