Title Digital Judaism : Jewish negotiations with digital media and culture / edited by Heidi A. Campbell

Edition First edition Published New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015

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Description 1 online resource Series Routledge studies in religion and digital culture ; 2 Routledge studies in religion and digital culture ; 2. Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Studying Jewish Engagement with Digital Media and Culture; 2 The Jewish Communication Tradition and Its Encounters with (the) New Media; 3 Appropriation and Innovation: Facebook, Grassroots Jews and Offline Post-Denominational Judaism; 4 Yoatzot Halacha: Ruling the Internet, One Question at a Time; 5 Sanctifying the Internet: Aish HaTorah's Use of the Internet for Digital Outreach; 6 Jewish Games for Learning: Renewing Heritage Traditions in the Digital Age 7 Communicating Identity through Religious Internet Memes on the "Tweeting Orthodoxies" Facebook Page8 Legitimation of New Media and Community Building among Jewish Denominations in the US; 9 On Pomegranates and Etrogs: Internet Filters as Practices of Media Ambivalence among National Religious Jews in Israel; 10 Pashkevilim in Campaigns against New Media: What Can Pashkevilim Accomplish That Newspapers Cannot?; 11 The Israeli Rabbi and the Internet; Contributors; Index Summary In this volume, contributors consider the ways that Jewish communities and users of new media negotiate their uses of digital technologies in light of issues related to religious identity, community and authority. Digital Judaism presents a broad analysis of how and why various Jewish groups negotiate with digital culture in particular ways, situating such observations within a wider discourse of how Jewish groups throughout history have utilized communication technologies to maintain their Jewish identities across time and space. Chapters address issues related to the negotiation of authority Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed April 17, 2015) Subject Internet -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. Digital media -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. Cyberspace -- Religious aspects -- Judaism. RELIGION -- Judaism -- General. Cyberspace -- Religious aspects -- Judaism Digital media -- Religious aspects -- Judaism Internet -- Religious aspects -- Judaism Form Electronic book Author Campbell, Heidi, 1970- editor. ISBN 9781317817345 1317817346 9781315818597 1315818590 9781317817338 1317817338 9781317817321 131781732X 9781138053519 1138053511

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