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>



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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