Om-line Hinduism: World Wide Gods on the Web

Dawson and Hennebry have speculated that disembedded online phenomena could be linked to the use of religion as a ‘cultural resource’ (Beckford 1992, 2000, 2001) and that this is likely to result in (unspecified) ‘consequences for the future form and function of religion’ (Dawson and Hennebry 2004:...

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Main Author: Scheifinger, Heinz (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publ. 2010
In: Journal for the academic study of religion
Year: 2010, Volume: 23, Issue: 3, Pages: 325-345
Further subjects:B Online Darshan
B Cultural Resource Theory
B Hinduism
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