Cyberhenge : Modern Pagans on the Internet

ISBN-13: 9780415969116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 240 str.

Douglas E. Cowan; Cowan E. Cowan; Brian D. Loader

Opis

In Cyberhenge, Douglas E. Cowan brings together two fascinating and virually unavoidable phenomena of the postmodern world - the electronic environment of the Internet and the emerging world of contemporary Neopaganism - Wiccans and other witches, Druids, Goddess-worshipers and ceremonial magicians - the Internet provides an environment alive with possibilities for invention, innovation and imagination. Neopagans are not only using the Net to provide information and as a vehicle to develop and expand the frontiers of their religious experience. From online Sabbath rituals to an algorithmic I Ching for which one pays with electronically banked Karma Coins, from e-covens and cyber-groves where neophytes can learn everything from the Wiccan Rede to spellworking, to arguments over the validity of online ritual and the authenticity of one's magical lineage, neopaganism on the Internet is an ongoing experiment in the creation and recreation of postmodern religious traditions.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. The Modern Pagan Internet  2. The Road to Cyberhenge  3. The Mists of Cyberhenge  4. Online Solataries and Cybercovens  5. Among the Stones of Cyberhenge  6. Coming Out of the Online Broomcloset  7. (In)Conclusion  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

Douglas E. Cowan is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Sociology at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He is author of The Remnant Spirit: Conservative Reform in Mainline Protestantism and Bearing False Witness: An Introduction to the Christian Countercult. He is coeditor, with Lorne L. Dawson, of Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet, also published by Routledge.