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Religion and Technology: Refiguring Place, Space, Identity and Community
Area
  • Lily Kong, Singapore Management University
Publication Type
Journal Article
Version
acceptedVersion
Publication Date
12-2001
Abstract

This paper reviews the literature on the religion-technology nexus, drawing up a research agenda and offering preliminary empirical insights. Firsts I stress the need to explore the new politics of space as a consequence of technological development, emphasizing questions about the role of religion in effecting a form of religious (neo)imperialism, and uneven access to techno-religious spaces. Second, I highlight the need to examine the politics of identity and community, since cyberspace is not an isotropic surface. Third, I underscore the need to engage with questions about the poetics of religious community as social relations become mediated by technology. Finally, I focus on questions about the poetics of place, particularly the technological mediation of rituals.

Keywords
  • religion,
  • technology,
  • cyberspace,
  • place,
  • space,
  • community
Discipline
Identifier
10.1111/1475-4762.00046
Publisher
Wiley
Copyright Owner and License
Authors
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-4762.00046
Citation Information
Lily Kong. "Religion and Technology: Refiguring Place, Space, Identity and Community" Area Vol. 33 Iss. 4 (2001) p. 404 - 413 ISSN: 0004-0894
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/lily-kong/134/