Conference Updates

Digital Religion today includes a myriad of examples: an evangelical mommy blogging community, a Jewish online dating service, a virtual pilgrimage of the Muslim ritual of Hajj, offering pujas on an online Hindu Temple service, a YouTube series of an ex-Catholic nun, the invention of Kosher phones, playing Al-Quraysh, a Muslim video game, an Anglican Church on Second Life, or a religious iPhone app like iTalk to God. Topics may include victims perspectives, psychological and 116 Bozeman: Conference Updates social manipulation, religious fanaticism, terrorism, law enforcement, treatment, prevention, and legal, social, and public policy aspects of manipulation and victimization. Possible paper topics include: communal living: past, present, and future; sustainability through collective endeavor; co-housing and ecovillages as sustainable models; ritual and celebration in community; building social cohesion in community; education in communal settings; children and youth in community; cultural development in community; aging and the elderly in community; gardens as utopian communal settings; sustainable architecture within community; community and people with disabilities; personal transformation in community; alternative/community economics; community and the internet; 117 Nova Religio power and control, and empowerment in community; family and gender in community; and/or community involvement within the larger society.