Japanese Religions on the Internet: Innovation, Representation, and Authority (Routledge Studies in Religion, Media, and Culture, 2, Band 2) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0415864909 ISBN 13: 9780415864909

Verlag: Routledge, 2013

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This book discusses how religion is being presented, represented and discussed on the Japanese Internet. Using examples from across the Japanese religious spectrum, it develops our understandings of religion and media and on how various parties - from religious organisations to individual critics of religion(s) - are making use of new technologies.

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Erica Baffelli is a Lecturer in Asian Religion at the University of Otago (New Zealand). Both her doctoral research (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, 2005) and her post-doctoral research project as fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) investigated the relationship between the media and 'image construction' of Japanese new religious movements. Her research interests lie primarily in the groups' self-presentation online and offline and in the interaction between religion and popular cultures.

Ian Reader, now Professor of Japanese Studies at Manchester and formerly Professor of Religious Studies at Lancaster University, has spent over a quarter of a century researching on religion in Japan. Author of several books (including Religion in Contemporary Japan 1991, Practically Religious 1998, Religious Violence in Contemporary Japan: The Case of Aum Shinrikyo 2000 and Making Pilgrimages: Meaning and Practice in Shikoku 2005), he has most recently worked on issues of public representation and marketing of religion both in off- and online contexts.

Birgit Staemmler has been a member of Tübingen University Japanese Department's research focus on Internet and religion since 2000 and is currently working on definitions and contexts of the term 'Shamanism' in the Japanese Internet. Her doctoral research focused on a ritual of mediated spirit possession in Japanese new religions and was published as Chinkon Kishin: Mediated Spirit Possession in Japanese New Religions (2009).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0415864909
• ISBN 13: 9780415864909
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 242
• Herausgeber: Baffelli Erica, Reader Ian, Staemmler Birgit
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Friedensallee 273; Hamburg; 22763; Deutschland