Heidi A. Campbell is Professor of Communication, affiliate faculty in Religious Studies and a Presidential Impact Fellow at Texas A&M University. She is also director of the Network for New Media, Religion and Digital Culture Studies, and a founder of Digital Religion studies. She is author of over 100 articles and eleven books including When Religion Meets New Media (2010), Digital Religion (2013/2021) and Digital Creatives and the Rethinking Religious Authority (2021).
Pauline Hope Cheong is Professor at the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication and affiliate faculty at the Center on Technology, Data and Society, and the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at Arizona State University. She has published more than 100 articles and books and has co-led funded research projects on technology, religion, and culture, including AI and governance.

• 1. Introduction to the Study of Digital Religion


• Heidi A. Campbell and Pauline Hope Cheong


• Part I: Religious Engagement with Social Media


• 2. Christianity and Digital Media: Different Traditions and Different Aims


• Stefan Gelfgren


• 3. Buddhism and Digital Media


• Daniel Veidlinger


• 4. Islam and Digital Religion


• Ibrahim N. Abusharif


• 5. Past, Present and Potential Futures of Digital Hinduism Research


• Xenia Zeiler


• 6. Digital Judaism


• Oren Golan


• 7. Sikh Digital Media


• Jasjit Singh


• 8. New Religious Movements and the Internet


• Margarita Simon Guillory


• 9. Secularism, Atheism and Digital Media


• Teemu Taira


• Part II: Explorations in Religious Community and the Internet


• 10. Digital Contours of the Black Church in North America and Community Online


• Erika Gault


• 11. Mosques and churches and technology in Southeast Asia


• Tan Meng Yoe


• 12. Religion and Online Community in African Contexts


• Bala A. Musa and Agnes Lucy Lando


• 13. Digital Diasporas and The Religious Reproduction Of "Home"


• Orlando Woods


• Part III: Performing Religious Identity Online


• 14. Navigating Religious Identity and Embodiment in Digital Games


• John W. Borchert


• 15. Gender and Agency in Digital Religion


• Mia Lövheim


• 16. Hidden Religious Identities Online: Digital Religion and LGBTQIA+ Individuals


• Ruth Tsuria


• 17. Islam, Digital Media, and Identity


• Fazlul Rahman


• 18. Muslims Enacting Identity: Gender Through Digital Media


• Eva F. Nisa


• 19. Digital Materiality in Protestant Evangelical Christianity


• Robbie B. H. Goh


• Part IV: Questions of Religious Authority in Digital Contexts


• 20. Authority and Communication: Dialectical Tensions and Paradoxes in Religious Organizing


• Pauline Hope Cheong


• 21. Approaching Religious Authority Through the Rise of New Leadership Roles Online


• Heidi A. Campbell


• 22. Challenges in Jewish Communities Online


• Chen Sabag-Ben Porat, Hananel Rosenberg, and Menahem Blondheim


• 23. Mediatization and Religious Authority in Scandinavia


• Henrik Reintoft Christensen


• 24. Religious Populism in the Digital Age


• Magali do Nascimento Cunha


• 25. Religious Authority and Participatory Social Action in Indian Networks


• Benson Rajan


• Part V: Virtue Formation and Ethical Considerations about Technology


• 26. Value Formations through Digital Gaming


• Gregory Price Grieve, Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, and Xenia Zeiler


• 27. Building Virtue Through App Cultures: How Do Digital Religions Provide the Resources as Ideological, Social, and Transcendent Contexts?


• Sarah A. Schnitker


• 28. Bible Reading and Interpretation in a Digital Age


• Peter M. Phillips


• 29. Considering Religious Education and Online Pedagogy: The (Trans)Formative Potential of Theological Higher Education


• Kutter Callaway, Tommy Lister, and Sara Wells


• Part VI: Religious Reflections on Emerging Technology and Our Digital Future


• 30. Digital Religion: A Methodological Approach


• Johanna Sumiala


• 31. Theoretical Approaches in Digital Religion Studies


• Giulia Evolvi


• 32. Posthumanism and Digital Religion


• Oliver Krüger


• 33. Robots, Ethics, and Digital Religion: Initial Considerations


• Simon Balle and Charles Ess


• 34. Death, Religion, and Digital Media


• Maggi Savin-Baden


• 35. Pocket Memorials: Digital Death and the Smartphone


• Candi K. Cann


• 36. Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Religion


• Mohammad Yaqub Chaudhari


• 37. Digital Religion Futures: Propositions and Complexities in the Now and Not Yet


• Pauline Hope Cheong and Heidi A. Campbell

The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion will provide a comprehensive overview of religion as seen and performed through various media, platforms, and cultural spaces created by digital technology. The text will cover religious engagement with a wide range of digital media forms (including social media, websites, gaming environments, mobile phones, virtual and augmented realities, etc.) and highlight examples of technological engagement and negotiation within the major world religions (i.e. Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism), as well as significant subgroups. Given the richness and breadth of the coverage, this volume will serve as a key resource for scholars of communication, media, religion, theology, and internet studies.