Digital humanities and research methods in religious studies: an introduction
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Digital Humanities and Religious Studies: A “Why” To Guide -- Part I: Texts -- Digital Tools for Buddhist Studies -- The Making of America’s Public Bible: Computational Text Analysis for Religious History -- Network Analysis of Religious Texts. Case Studies on Anc...
| Summary: | Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Digital Humanities and Religious Studies: A “Why” To Guide -- Part I: Texts -- Digital Tools for Buddhist Studies -- The Making of America’s Public Bible: Computational Text Analysis for Religious History -- Network Analysis of Religious Texts. Case Studies on Ancient Egyptian and Indian Religion -- Digital Approaches to Studying Authorial Style and Monastic Subjectivity in Early Christian Egypt -- Part II: Images -- Synthesizing Image and Text in the Life of the Buddha -- Materializing the Bible: A Digital Scholarship Project from the Anthropology of Religion -- Collaboration and Access in the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion -- Scaling Religious Practice from Landscape to Artifact: Digital Approaches to Ancient Cyprus -- Part III: Places -- Sacred Centers in India: Archiving Temples and Images of a Hindu City -- Developing a Database of Religions in Contemporary China -- From Ararat to Kimberley: Activating Imaginary Jewish Homelands with Augmented and Virtual Reality -- Mapping Anti-Muslim Hostility and its Effects -- Part IV: Issues -- Critique and Community: Podcasting Religious Studies -- Public Pedagogy: MOOCs and Their Revolutionary Discontents -- Building Social Sites of Collaborative Research: A Case Study of the Network for New Media, Religion, and Digital Culture Studies -- Learning to Code: Digital Pebbles and Institutional Ripples -- Index This volume provides practical, but provocative, case studies of exemplary projects that apply digital technology or methods to the study of religion. An introduction and 16 essays are organized by the kinds of sources digital humanities scholars use – texts, images, and places – with a final section on the professional and pedagogical issues digital scholarship raises for the study of religion |
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| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 3110573024 |
| Access: | Restricted Access |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/9783110573022 |