eprintid: 5824
rev_number: 32
eprint_status: archive
userid: 1
dir: disk0/00/00/58/24
datestamp: 2005-09-23 10:13:08
lastmod: 2015-12-28 06:54:49
status_changed: 2005-09-23 11:42:31
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Campbell, Heidi
title: Spiritualising the Internet. Uncovering Discourses and Narratives of Religious Internet Usage
ispublished: pub
subjects: 200
divisions: 72050
keywords: Religion , InternetReligion , Internet
cterms_swd: Religion
cterms_swd: Internet
abstract: Heidi Campbell deals with an important aspect of ”lived religion” and the Internet. In her contribution Spiritualising the Internet: Uncovering Discourses and Narratives of Religious Internet Usage, she focuses on how spiritual or religious worldviews shape the use and study of the Internet. Individuals and groups typically employ one of a range of conceptual models (such as the Internet as an information tool, identity workshop, common mental geography, social network or spiritual space) to frame their understanding of Internet technology and how it should be used. Narratives about the nature of this technology are often embedded within these discourses. Of particular interest to Campbell is the identification of narratives used to shape religious or spiritual Internet usage. Some of these can be described as offering a religious identity, support network, spiritual network or worship space. According to Campbell, religious narratives describe the religious group’s motivations and beliefs about acceptable use of technology in spiritual pursuits. They also highlight a process of negotiation and framing that is often undertaken in order to justify religious Internet usage. Campbell introduces Katz and Aakhus’s Apparageist theory of the social use of mobile technology, which provides one way to discuss this religious apologetic process related to the Internet. She is convinced that it also helps to uncover how technological selection can be linked to the spiritual worldviews to which individuals and/or groups ascribe.
abstract_translated_lang: eng
date: 2005
date_type: published
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00005824
portal_cluster_id: p-relinternet
portal_order: 01.1
ppn_swb: 1644180375
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-58246
language: eng
bibsort: CAMPBELLHESPIRITUALI2005
full_text_status: public
publication: Online – Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet: Volume 01.1 Special Issue on Theory and Methodology
editors_name: Krüger, Oliver
citation:   Campbell, Heidi  (2005) Spiritualising the Internet. Uncovering Discourses and Narratives of Religious Internet Usage.  Online – Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet: Volume 01.1 Special Issue on Theory and Methodology.       
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/5824/1/Campbell4a.pdf