Japanese religions on the Internet : innovation, representation and authority / / edited by Erica Baffelli, Ian Reader and Birgit Staemmler

• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (243 p.)
• Disciplina: 200.952
• Soggetto topico: Religion and sociology - Japan; Internet - Religious aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BaffelliErica <1976-> ReaderIan <1949-> StaemmlerBirgit <1967->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Media and religion in Japan / Erica Baffelli, Ian Reader, and Birgit Staemmler -- Internet and religion in Japan : innovation, representation, and authority / Erica Baffelli, Ian Reader, and Birgit Staemmler -- The situation of Japanese traditional Buddhism in the Web2.0 era : who attacks and who guards the religion? / Fukamizu Kenshin -- Preserving the dignity of Shinto shrines in the age of the Internet : a social context analysis / Kurosaki Hiroyuki -- The Shikoku pilgrimage online : official sites, promotion, commerce, and the replication of authority / Ian Reader -- Pilgrim leadership rendered in HTML : bloggers and the Shikoku Henro / John Shultz -- Charismatic blogger? : authority and new religions on the Web 2.0 / Erica Baffelli -- Caught in the net : celebrity representation and Japanese religion from historical and contemporary perspectives / Benjamin Dorman -- Shaping shamanism online : patterns of authority in Wikipedia / Birgit Staemmler -- Reflexive self identification of Internet users and the authority of Ska Gakkai : analysis of discourse in Japanese BBS, Ni-channeru / Tamura Takanori and Tamura Daiyu -- Conclusions and issues for future research / Erica Baffelli, Ian Reader and Birgit Staemmler.
• Sommario/riassunto: Japanese Religions on the Internet draws attention to how religion is being presented, represented and discussed on the Japanese Internet. Its intention is to contribute to wider discussions about religion and the Internet by providing an important example - based on one of the Internet's most prominent languages - of how new media technologies are being used and are impacting on religion in the East-Asian context, while also developing further our understandings of religion in a technologically advanced country. Scholars studying the relationship of religion and the Internet can n
• Titolo autorizzato: Japanese religions on the Internet
• ISBN: 1-136-82783-8; 1-283-10459-8; 9786613104595; 0-203-83122-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459784803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge research in religion, media and culture ; ; 2.