| Description |
284 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references ([283]-284). |
| Contents |
Judaism -- Cyberspace -- Islam -- Artificial intelligence/artificial life -- Christianity -- Virtual reality -- Buddhism -- Virtual reality -- Hinduism and Yoga -- Sacred cyberspace -- Community -- Omega. |
| Summary |
The Soul of Cyberspace, in a pioneering journey through religion's newest, strangest, and most exhilarating frontier, reveals the new technological face of religion and explores the fascinating challenges posed by our colonization of cyberspace. Taking readers on a tour of electronic faith - to websites established by Baptists and Buddhists, Mormons and Muslims, to virtual congregations and Internet chaplaincies, cybermissionaries and virtual monasteries - Zaleski. |
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introduces us to the trailblazing believers and the cautious faithful of cyberspace. He explores the profound questions raised by cyberspace: Will cyberchurches make ministers obsolete? Will the communities of church, temple, and mosque vanish? Can religious rituals take place on PC screens, and can sacred space be found in the midst of cyberspace's distractions and noise? Can we locate divinity - even electronic "deities" - in the folds of cyberspace? In conversations. |
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with the new metaphysicians and critics of cyberspace - John Perry Barlow, Jaron Lanier, Mark Pesce, and others - Zaleski reveals how technology is changing our visions of spirituality, worship, and the sacred. |
| Subject |
Religion -- Computer network resources.
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Internet -- Religious aspects.
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Cyberspace -- Religious aspects.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Zaleski, Jeffrey P. Soul of cyberspace. San Francisco : HarperEdge, c1997 (OCoLC)605027301 |
| ISBN |
0062514512 cloth |
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9780062514516 cloth |
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0062514520 paperback |
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9780062514523 paperback |
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