RE-LOCATING RELIGION IN THE DIGITAL AGE.
Due to the fact that formal systems of religious thought have developed, throughout the ages, in response to the pressures of informal daily practices that the countless believers worldwide have tended to adopt, religion and technology have always been intertwined in a complex web of relationships....
| Published in: | Journal for the Study of Religions & Ideologies Vol. 23; no. 67; pp. 109 - 124 |
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