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Dreaming Cyborg Dreams: Virtual Identity and Religious Experience

By Rachel Wagner

…tion, a religiously-inspired first-person shooter, Noah’s Ark, a religious online reality show; Roma Victor, a massive multiplayer online role-playing game, and religious experiences in the online world of Second Life. In each of these examples, the level of immersion in online identity plays a very powerful role in shaping the authenticity of religious experience, as channeled through those digital representations of self that virtual natives cal…

Sacred Texting: When Religious Writ Gets Wired

By Rachel Wagner

…evices to access them. Hopeful worshippers are even constructing their own online religious “texts” in the form of digitized prayers, video accompaniment to existing religious texts, and the recording and sharing of recitation of prayers and liturgy. But as religious texts go digital, they acquire new qualities. What are the new forms that sacred texts are taking? And what are the implications of these transformations? For many religious folk, dig…

Saipov Wasn’t a “Member” of ISIS, But That Misses the Point

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…lely by territorial control. The enormous cyber network of participants in online chats on Twitter and Telegram, and the global audience for the slick online publications such as Inspire, Dabiq, and Rumiyah have constituted an alternative movement rivaling the size and significance of the Arab Sunni-based Caliphate in Syria and Iraq. The global network was nourished in part to gain recruits to come to the Middle East battlefields where they provid…

Welcome to the “Career College” Scam

By Peter Laarman

…acket to be shut down anytime soon: the scam school industry is too well connected politically for that to happen. And, in fact, when the GAO report on their dubious practices came out Wall Street barely blinked—and shares in the proprietary companies moved up smartly. So yes, Joe and Jane Taxpayer: you should be really pissed off about this. I certainly am. But the people who should be angriest of all are the students, most of them still with no…

Will God-Gaming Alter the Bible?

By Rachel Wagner

…taways, Germany-based FIAA GmbH is releasing the beta version of The Bible Online: Heroes, the first installment of a projected series of MMORTS (massively multiplayer online real-time strategy) “games” based on the Bible. MMORTS games take place in a world that continues to exist and evolve even while any given player isn’t playing. According to the press release, there is an RPG (role-playing game) component too; players can expect to play as A…

“Dark” Skin No Longer a Curse in Online Book of Mormon

By Joanna Brooks

Chapter headings in the online version of the Book of Mormon have been changed by LDS Church officials, eliminating vestiges of racist theology that linked dark skin to spiritual accursedness. One changed chapter heading appears in 2 Nephi, chapter 5: * Old version: “Because of their unbelief, the Lamanites are cursed, receive a skin of blackness, and become a scourge to the Nephites.” * New online version: “Because of their unbelief, the Lamanit…

Pornography’s Dirty Little Secret: What We Say vs. What We Do

By Shira Tarrant

…lessly stated in 2013 that “12 Percent of Americans Admit to Watching Porn Online, the Other 88 Percent Must Not Have Internet.” As the Time subtitle further explains, “bashful survey respondents probably diminished the total reported number of online porn watchers in the U.S.” Shame and stigma could certainly be a factor in people underreporting their own pornography use. The Public Religion Research Institute found that 71 percent of Americans t…

7 Women Scholars On the Gender Divide in Religious Studies, the Power of Mentors, and Leading While Female

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…ely overrun by scholars of religion. Thousands have gathered for the 2015 annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion (along with the Society for Biblical Literature). For this special feature (and in honor of this powerful concentration of academic humanity) Rebecca Barrett-Fox has interviewed seven women scholars—sociologists, theologians, historians, and leaders. The reflections she gathered, presented below according to theme, are notab…

The Same Toxic Christian Right Theology Supports Both the Online Bullying I Experienced and the Cruel Anti-Trans Policy in TX — And it’s Not Remotely Fringe

By Chrissy Stroop

In late February, I went through an episode of online bullying that made me feel more dehumanized than I ever had since coming out as a transgender woman, leading to several days of heightened depressive symptoms and low productivity. The suffering this bullying caused me undoubtedly pales in comparison to what families with trans children who are currently under attack in Texas are going through since Governor Greg Abbott ordered child welfare a…

‘Soul of Yoga’ at Stake in Texas Regulation Push

By Andrea R. Jain

…nt “Belief” section of the Houston Chronicle, which featured an image of Jennifer Buergermeister, a local yoga practitioner, teacher, studio owner, and advocate, in fashionable yoga attire and in the posture of a Hindu goddess, complete (thanks to clever photography) with six arms. Below the image, the headline reads, “THE SOUL OF YOGA.” For those yogis interviewed in the article, yoga is not a mere body practice or commodity. It’s a deeply transf…