eprintid: 6958
rev_number: 19
eprint_status: archive
userid: 1
dir: disk0/00/00/69/58
datestamp: 2006-11-14 10:04:20
lastmod: 2016-01-18 19:44:30
status_changed: 2012-08-14 15:20:01
type: article
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creators_name: Casey, Cheryl Anne
title: Virtual Ritual, Real Faith : the Revirtualization of Religious Ritual in Cyberspace
ispublished: pub
subjects: 200
divisions: 72050
keywords: Internet , ReligionInternet , Religion
cterms_swd: Ritual
cterms_swd: Christentum <Motiv>
cterms_swd: Episkopalkirche
abstract: Cheryl Anne Casey deals with Practicing Faith in Cyberspace: Conceptions and Functions of Religious Rituals on the Internet. She examines the emerging phenomenon of online religious rituals and their functions for participants in order to illuminate the relationship between changing technologies of communication and our changing conceptions of religion. Her case study considers an online Episcopalian church service within the framework of ritual theory. Keys to the analysis are the particular design chosen for the service (given the multifarious forms which rituals can take in cyberspace) and the relationship between choice of design and the tenets of the particular faith group. The objective of this study is to shed light on the relationship between conceptions of religion, religious experience, and changing media environments by examining online rituals and the meanings and functions these rituals hold for those who access them. 
abstract_translated_lang: eng
date: 2006
date_type: published
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00006958
portal_cluster_id: p-relinternet
portal_order: 02.1
ppn_swb: 1644599112
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-opus-69581
language: eng
bibsort: CASEYCHERYVIRTUALRIT2006
full_text_status: public
publication: Online – Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet
volume: 02.1
citation:   Casey, Cheryl Anne  (2006) Virtual Ritual, Real Faith : the Revirtualization of Religious Ritual in Cyberspace.  Online – Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet, 02.1.       
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/6958/1/Aufsatz_Casey.pdf