Thursday, June 21, 2007
The Second Life Cathedral goes mainstream
In a post "You Talk - PodBible interactive" I mentioned that Mark Brown (the CEO of Bible Society in NZ) had become some kind of Anglican Bishop of Second Life well, now Wired blog has featured the story: "Anglican Second Life Inhabitants Construct Medieval Cathedral".
As you may NOT remember when Wired Blog posted about Librivox, my Stalky and Co. quickly passed 1,000 downloads despite its size and obscurity! So, I hope Mar and his Cathedral staff are well prepared for all those virtual tourists who will soon be winging their way Ephany Islandward ;-)
PS, even if you are not a virtual tourist, do visit Mark's blog, it is more colourful than its name ;-)
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In a post "You Talk - PodBible interactive" I mentioned that Mark Brown (the CEO of Bible Society in NZ) had become some kind of Anglican Bishop of Second Life well, now Wired blog has featured the story: "Anglican Second Life Inhabitants Construct Medieval Cathedral".As you may NOT remember when Wired Blog posted about Librivox, my Stalky and Co. quickly passed 1,000 downloads despite its size and obscurity! So, I hope Mar and his Cathedral staff are well prepared for all those virtual tourists who will soon be winging their way Ephany Islandward ;-)
PS, even if you are not a virtual tourist, do visit Mark's blog, it is more colourful than its name ;-)
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Thursday, January 25, 2007
Religion & Internet
Stephen pointed to the Religious Studies Review issue on Religion and the Internet (he also kindly emails me about such things which I greatly value, this time he gives a hat tip to When Religion Meets New Media a blog I don't [yet?] subscribe to...)
Peter Horsfield
Iain Doherty
Resident Evil: Horror Film and the Construction of Religious Identity in Contemporary Media Culture
Paul Teusner
Hacking with the Divine: A Metaphor Theology-Technology Engagement
Stephen Garner
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He also pointed to the 2005 Concilium on "Cyberspace – Cyberethics – Cybertheology". So, it is only fair to add the 2005 issue of Colloquium, to which he and I both contributed! It also has the advantage of putting all the articles online (and at least for now!) open access:
Back to the Future: Virtual Theologising as Recapitulation
Tim Bulkeley
Peter Horsfield
New Zealand Christian Churches Online: Websites, and Models of Authority and Participation
Mary Griffiths and Ann Hardy
Iain Doherty
Resident Evil: Horror Film and the Construction of Religious Identity in Contemporary Media Culture
Paul Teusner
Hacking with the Divine: A Metaphor Theology-Technology Engagement
Stephen Garner
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