Digital Methodologies in the Sociology of Religion

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Introduction: Digital Methodologies in the Sociology of Religion
Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor and Suha Shakkour

Part 1 Digitizing Research in the Sociology of Religion

1 Methodological Challenges, Innovations and Growing Pains in Digital Religion Research
Heidi A. Campbell and Brian Altenhofen

2 Surveying the Religious and Non-Religious Online
Tristram Hooley and Paul Weller

3 Online Crowdsourcing Methods for Identifying and Studying Religious Groups as Special Populations
Victoria A. Springer, Peter J. Martini and James T. Richardson

Part 2 Social Networking Sites and Digital Ethnography

4 Facebook as Anti-social Media: Using Facebook Groups to Engage Opponents to the Building of Dudley Mosque Chris Allen

5 Analysing YouTube Interaction: A Discourse-centred Approach Stephen Pihlaja

6 Online Sufism: Methodological Thoughts on Researching Esoteric Islam in an Online Context Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor

7 Studying Digital Hinduism Heinz Scheifinger

8 Young Sikhs' Religious Engagement Online
Jasjit Singh

Part 3 Digital Communication

9 Studying Apps: Research Approaches to the Digital Bible
Tim Hutchings

10 Videoconferencing as a Tool Facilitating Feminist Interviews with Muslim Women Who Wear the Niqab
Anna Piela

11 Religious Organizations on the Internet: A Model to Analyse Communication Effectiveness
Daniel Arasa and Juan Narbona

12 Researching Authority in Religious Organizations from a Communicative Perspective: A Connective Online-Offline Approach
Pauline Hope Cheong, Boris H. J. M. Brummans and Jennie M. Hwang

Part 4 Virtual Reality and Religion

13 Online Ethnographic Research: Avatars in Virtual Worlds William Sims Bainbridge

14 Researching Religion, Digital Games and Gamers: (E-)Merging Methodologies
Simone Heidbrink, Tobias Knoll and Jan Wysocki

15 The G-d in the Machine: Studying the Representation and Performance of Judaism in Video Games using Multimodal Corpus-assisted Critical Discourse Analysis
Isamar Carrillo Masso

Afterword: Digital Methodologies in the Sociology of Religion - What Next?
Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor and Suha Shakkour

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