Food for thought
One of next weekend’s panels will be a series of breakout sessions, each centered around a different religious blogosphere. We’ve planned breakout groups for Jewish bloggers, Christian bloggers, Muslim bloggers, Buddhist bloggers and Pagan bloggers. (It’s not clear whether we’ll have enough folks from each of those communities present to make a breakout group, but we’ll do our best!)
Anyway, the moderator of the Islamosphere group asked me to post a link to a paper he recently presented at Harvard’s Muslims in the West conference. He writes:
While there are several works that address the presence of Islam online – many of them listed in the bibilography of this paper – none truly approaches the presence of Muslims online. By this I mean that there are state and organization sponsored websites that attempt to define what Islam is for the Muslim, as opposed to sites where Muslims are attempting to define what Islam is for themselves and their peers…
You can find that paper here: Moslems on the Internets.
I’d like to offer a similar snapshot of the J-blogosphere, as fodder for discussion in the J-blogosphere group, but I don’t have a single convenient link to share. Rachel Silverman’s article Sermonizing mingles with sex talk as Jewish surfers pick up blogging offers a partial picture; so does Charlie Pottins’ Online but off-message. Maybe when we meet, we can brainstorm a little bit about what defines the J-blogosphere, our differences and our common ground…
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