All Outputs (12)

Who studies religion? Towards a better conversation between Theology, Religious Studies, and Religious Education (2023)
Journal Article

This paper calls for better integration between the fields of Theology and Religious Studies (TRS) and Religious Education (RE). Positive reform in RE requires integration between educational theory, policy, and practice, but we argue that the academ... Read More about Who studies religion? Towards a better conversation between Theology, Religious Studies, and Religious Education.

Religion and Worldviews: The Way Forward? Considerations from the study of religion, non-religion and classroom practice (2021)
Journal Article

This article builds on Worldview-A Multidisciplinary Report (Benoit, Hutchings and Shillitoe, 2020), a publication commissioned by the RE Council of England and Wales to outline the academic history of the study of worldviews. We focus on three parti... Read More about Religion and Worldviews: The Way Forward? Considerations from the study of religion, non-religion and classroom practice.

Digital Christianity (2019)
Book Chapter

Introduction to the key theories and principles of the study of digital Christianity.

Emotion, Ritual and Rules of Feeling in the Study of Digital Religion (2019)
Book Chapter

This chapter will attempt to encourage greater engagement with emotion among scholars of digital religion by introducing two theoretical approaches. In the first half of the chapter, we will consider the place of emotion in the study of ritual, begin... Read More about Emotion, Ritual and Rules of Feeling in the Study of Digital Religion.

Angels and the Digital Afterlife: Death and Nonreligion Online (2019)
Journal Article

This brief article aims to draw the attention of nonreligion researchers to a growing interdisciplinary research field: the study of death online. In digitally networked societies, the dead are remembered online, and their survivors can use digital r... Read More about Angels and the Digital Afterlife: Death and Nonreligion Online.

"The Light of a Thousand Stories": Design, Play and Community in the Christian Videogame Guardians of Ancora (2019)
Journal Article

Understanding a videogame requires attention to the social dimensions of its production, its material form and its reception. Games are produced in communities of designers, played by communities of gamers, and accepted into families, households, and... Read More about "The Light of a Thousand Stories": Design, Play and Community in the Christian Videogame Guardians of Ancora.

Creating Church Online: Ritual, Community and New Media (2017)
Book

© 2017 Taylor & Francis. All rights reserved. Online churches are internet-based Christian communities, pursuing worship, discussion, friendship, support, proselytization, and other key religious goals through computer-mediated communication. Hundr... Read More about Creating Church Online: Ritual, Community and New Media.

Design and the digital Bible: persuasive technology and religious reading (2017)
Journal Article

This article analyses two ‘digital Bibles’, products that allow the user to engage with the Bible through the screen and speakers of his/her mobile phone, tablet or computer. Both products, ‘YouVersion’ and ‘GloBible’, have been created by Evangelica... Read More about Design and the digital Bible: persuasive technology and religious reading.

“We are a United Humanity”: Death, Emotion and Digital Media in the Church of Sweden (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Broadcast Education Association. This article seeks to bring together the study of death, digital media, emotion and religion, using a Christian organization as a case study. The Swedish national church (Svenska kyrkan) has a large but declini... Read More about “We are a United Humanity”: Death, Emotion and Digital Media in the Church of Sweden.

Materiality and the Study of Religion: The Stuff of the Sacred (2016)
Book

Material culture has emerged in recent decades as a significant theoretical concern for the study of religion. This book contributes to and evaluates this material turn, presenting thirteen chapters of new empirical research and theoretical reflectio... Read More about Materiality and the Study of Religion: The Stuff of the Sacred.

Studying Apps: Research Approaches to the Digital Bible (2015)
Book Chapter

E-Reading and the Christian Bible (2015)
Journal Article

The Christian Bible is now available in thousands of digital forms, re-imagined for electronic reading on mobile, tablet and desktop screens. This article introduces findings from an online survey of digital Bible users, analysing their demographics,... Read More about E-Reading and the Christian Bible.