AoIRers- For those in the UK with an Interest in Religion and the Internet... You are invited to a Seminar on: Exploring Religion Online: How the Internet is changing religious community and identity Held at the University of Manchester Friday 14 November 2003 (10.00 12.00pm) Speakers: Heidi Campbell (University of Edinburgh) and Mia Lövheim (University of Uppsala) This is part of the Media and Contextual Theology Series hosted at The University of Manchester. The presentation will offer critical reflection on identity construction in religious use of the Internet based on current research being cinducted on online religious communities. Campbell and Lövheim are members of a working group sponsored by the World Association Christian Communication on the topic of "Spirituality and Cyberspace". <bold>Heidi Campbell</bold> is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh investigating the social implication and religious use of new media. Her research on religious online community has appeared in several publications including Congregation of the Disembodied in <italic>Virtual Morality </italic>(Peter Lang) and the forthcoming This is My Church: Seeing the Internet and Club Culture as Spiritual Space in <italic>Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet </italic>(Routledge). <bold>Mia Lövheim</bold> is a doctoral candidate in sociology of religion at the Faculty of Theology at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her research focuses on the construction of religious identity among young men and women online in Sweden. Among her published work includes Internet, Religion and the Attribution of Social Trust", co-written with Alf Linderman, in <italic>Mediating Religion: Conversations in Media, Religion and Cultur</italic>e, edited by. J. Mitchell and S. Marriage (Edinburgh: T&T Clark/Continuum). Venue: room A4, The Department of Religions and Theology, University of Manchester Directions: Ground floor of the Arts building, which is off Oxford Road in the middle of the University. Once in the Arts Building you need to turn down the corridor to the left at the statue of Samuel Ferguson sitting in the middle of the foyer. For more details contact: <color><param>0000,0000,8000</param>" Dr. Frankie Ward" <<fefward@fish.co.uk> at the University of Manchester</color> ========================== Dr. Heidi Campbell Research Fellow Institute for the Advanced Study of the Humanities University of Edinburgh http://www.ed.ac.uk/iash/heidi.campbell.html