Believing in Bits

Digital Media and the Supernatural
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-19-094999-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

Believing in Bits advances the idea that religious beliefs and practices have become inextricably linked to the functioning of digital media. How did we come to associate things such as mindreading and spirit communications with the functioning of digital technologies? How does the internets capacity to facilitate the proliferation of beliefs blur the boundaries between what is considered fiction and fact? Addressing these and similar questions, the volume
challenges and redefines established understandings of digital media and culture by employing the notions of belief, religion, and the supernatural.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Natale, Simone

Pasulka, Diana

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Über Autor(innen)

Simone Natale is a Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies at Loughborough University, UK.

Diana Walsh Pasulka is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington and chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion.