Googlization Revisited: faith-based Updates

• CATHOOGLE - CATHOLIC SEARCH ENGINE powered by Google - The Catholic Search Engine
• ISLAMIC GOOGLE - Islamic Search Engine powered by Google -
[info courtesy: Mohammed Ibrahim]
• Müslümanoogle


• USE Blessle  Make this your home page instead of Google - it gives an ayah from the Holy Qur'an in Arabic and English every day, then you can still search Google.
• jgog @ When Religion Meets New Media / Jewgle / jewishgoogle.com
• Can BuddhaGoogle Be Far Behind? I Surely Hope So!

See on the same shelf:

Sunday: holy day &/or holiday

Books explore the evolution of Sunday
From Sabbatarianism to shopping - and why there's no such thing as a Wednesday driver Today it floats between its religious past and its secular present.
Nov 23, 2008
Comments on this story (14) Ryan Bigge Special to the Toronto Star

"Journalistic ethics demand that I make clear my lack of objectivity when it comes to the day of the week known as Sunday. This essay about Sunday is, after all, being published on a Sunday, and should not be considered unbiased. In my defence, the publication of two recent books on the topic (The Peculiar Life of Sundays by scholar Stephen Miller and Sunday: A History of the First Day From Babylonia to the Super Bowl by Brigham Young University history professor Craig Harline) suggest I am not alone in my affinity for, and fascination with, the first day of the week.
While the trend of single-topic books like Salt or Cod is finally abating, thanks in part to Henry Petroski's 400-plus-page ode to the toothpick, published last year, Sunday's right to sustained examination is inarguable. (Whether it requires 750 pages spread across two books is a separate debate.) To put it another way, a book-length examination of any other day would be unthinkable. We might prefer Friday to Sunday, but only Sunday, with its mix of history, culture, religion, politics and emotion, could generate 750 pages of discussion." continue reading

This tiny little prayer ... Sent up to GOD.com

Cyber worship (using cyber space for worship), continues to appear in different sites and appeal everyone. We have in the past included Rabbi offers prayer for Web porn surfers / God.com: Web Analytics Series no.2 / The Christian Prayer While Logging Onto the Internet. And, much more in my book: Cyber Worship.

Following is an interesting post by Bingkee:

"TO WWW.GOD.COM
An online buddy, John, at Multiply shared this little prayer with me. I intend to express this prayer by posting it here. Although the prayer is referring to online friends through email, I dedicate this prayer to all my friends, buddies, fellow bloggers and loyal readers I met here online through my blogsite and at Blog Catalog, MyBlogLog, Pijoo and Spicypage. Also my friends and readers from Friendster, Facebook, Multiply, Netlog, Moli, and Gather."

EXTRACT: And God, there is one more thing I wish that you could do. Hope you don't mind me asking, Bless my computer too.... When you update your heavenly list On your own CD-RomR emember each who've said this prayer. Sent up to God.com. Amen. continue reading

A note about This Tiny Little Prayer: Submitted By: Brenda S. (and I have no idea who that is...).

• See the true colors of this tiny little prayer with background music
  

Hate crime against Sikh boy inspires anti-bullying website

Posted : Thu, 04 Oct 2007 09:27:07 GMT Author : Parveen Chopra, (c) Indo-Asian News Service

New York, Oct. 4: A hate crime against a Sikh schoolboy here has led to the start of Khalsakids.com, a website dedicated to helping Sikh students fight bullying in school. The website is designed as an interactive resource tool, featuring a discussion forum, videos, and downloadable presentations. Parents and teachers can also use the website’s sample lesson plans and games to teach others about Sikhs.

Sikh Coalition, a New York based community organisation, started Khalsakids.com in response to an incident earlier in 2007 in which a Sikh boy’s turban was forcibly removed and his hair cut by a schoolmate in New York’s Queens area. The boy has since changed schools for safety reasons and a jury has indicted the culprit. After the attack, the Sikh Coalition issued a civil rights report, ‘Hatred in the Hallways’, on the problems Sikh children face in school.

The report, based on a survey of New York City Sikhs, revealed that nearly 75 per cent of Sikh boys in the Queens borough — which has a concentration of Sikh households — are harassed or intimidated because of their long hair and turban. People call them “Osama bin Laden” or “terrorists”, often threatening or physically harassing them. Khalsakids.com is a way for Sikh children to feel proud of their identity and to give them the tools to combat bias in school.

The Sikh Coalition has also been working with the department of education over the past few months to make New York City schools safer for Sikh children. On September 25, schools chancellor Joel Klein sent a letter to all school principals in New York City stressing the importance of diversity in schools, and pointing to the hair-cutting incident as a cautionary example.

Ontario Multifaith Council: Web Analytics Series no. 5

Description: The Ontario Multifaith Council is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization representing the wide range of faith groups in the province of Ontario, Canada.

Thought for the day by Koans of the Zen Librarian

A patron asked the Zen Librarian to look on MapQuest to see whether a pick-your-own apple orchard was north or south of the interstate. The Zen Librarian answered, "Although people make distinctions between north and south, in buddha-nature and on the Web south and north do not exist." source

Multifaith Siteographics: Web Analytics Series no. 4

Info Courtesy: Quantcast Traffic Comparison





Five Websites included (for more graphics click here):

religioustolerance.org;

beliefnet.com;

god.com;

allspiritual.com;

allspirit.co.uk


See also

Religioustolerance.org: Web Analytics Series no.3

God.com: Web Analytics Series no.2

Beliefnet.com: Web Analytics Series no.1

Eye to I: Visual Literacy

More Web analytics @ my other blog: Information Visualization

30 Most influential religion blogs

Faith Central - Times Online - WBLG: 30 Most influential religion blogs, July 13, 2007
Bloggers about religion blog religiously so Faith Central has compiled a list of the most influential among them.

1. Informed Comment
2. Austrolabe
3. Jew School
4. Articles of Faith
5. Spirit Daily
6. Black Hat Lama
7. Freedom's Zone
8. Get Religion
9. Progressive Islam
10. Soma Review
11. No God Blog
12. The God Blog
13. Ahmed Ismail
14. Alive and Young blogspot
15. An Unsealed Room
16. The Revealer
17. Idol Chatter
18. Velveteen Rabbi
19. God's Politics
20. First Things on the Square
21. Archbishop Cranmer
22. Muslim Wake Up Blog
23. Ekklesia blog
24. Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
25. Muslim Matters
26. The Cafeteria is Closed
27. Virtually Islamic
28. Irene Lancaster
29. JBlog Central
30. Daily Dish

Continue reading

07/07/07: A perfect date with destiny?

6 Jul, 2007 l 0026 hrs ISTlAmit Bhattacharya / TIMES NEWS NETWORK
NEW DELHI: Remember the hype and phobia over June 6 last year as the date 6/6/06 was associated with the Devil? Well, the buzz around this coming Saturday is even bigger. For, 07/07/07 in the Western world is being associated with perfection.

See also whats up in news:

Religioustolerance.org: Web Analytics Series no.3

PS. On the left is a graph depicting religioustolerance.org's Aharef website-mapper. It reveals the structure of the Web sites' html, css codes. Here are my three websites.

blue: for links (the A tag)
red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
green: for the DIV tag
violet: for images (the IMG tag)
yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and BLOCKQUOTE tags)
black: the HTML tag, the root node
gray: all other tags
source: AHAREF

See also:

religioustolerance.org | Web Safety Ratings from McAfee SiteAdvisor

God.com: Web Analytics Series no.2

Beliefnet.com: Web Analytics Series no.1

"Amateur" charge infuriates blogosphere

By Eric Auchard, Jun 5, 2007 9:06AM EDT,
BERKELEY, California (Reuters) - Internet culture, often portrayed as the vanguard of progress, is actually a jungle peopled by intellectual yahoos and digital thieves, according to a Silicon Valley entrepreneur-turned-dissenter.

Andrew Keen, a 47-year-old Briton who founded dot-com era music startup Audiocafe, argues that basic notions of expertise are under assault amid a cultural shift in favor of the amateurism of blogs, MySpace and other popularity-driven sites.

"Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys ... are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity," Keen writes in a book published Tuesday. continue reading

see also what other bloggers are saying about this book: The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet is Killing our Culture

see also:

On the Web, 'ignorance meets bad taste meets mob rule'
Book review: "The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture"
By MICHIKO KAKUTANI, New York Times July 8, 2007

The Souls of Superheroes - Faithwise Review of the Week

Spider-Man 3 trailer:




7 Minutes Of EXCLUSIVE Spider-Man 3 Scenes!!!



"Spider-Man 3" is more than an action movie--it's full of religious and moral themes. How much do you know about Spider-Man's spirituality and the faith of other superheroes? continue reading @ Beliefnet.com

`Spider-Man 3' nets record $59M in 1 day, By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer, Sat May 5, 2007

Islam goes digital
Cairo - Egyptian residents, already summoned to prayers five times a day by a chorus of scratchy loudspeakers, are now clamouring for a new line of portable electronic devices to show their devotion to Islam. Digital Korans, automatic prayer reciters and headphones dispensing religious advice are all part of the growing wave of outward religiosity that is increasingly defining daily life in Egypt. continue reading

Egypt's faithful crave new Islamic gadgets

Digital Qur'an finds home in Cairo

Fatwa: Women and Men Touching in Pro-Wrestling

Too hot for prime time? Once again a pulled TV ad – this time for Chanel lipstick – has generated controversy over acceptable standards
KEITH MCARTHUR, From Thursday's Globe and Mail, 19/04/07
The agency that screens ads for Canada's private broadcasters is at the centre of controversy again over efforts to protect the public from advertising deemed too hot for TV. This time the controversy is over an ad for Chanel lipstick in which Swiss model and actress Julie Ordon — clad only in a sheet — rolls seductively in bed and asks her clothed male companion if he loves her lips. “There's absolute nudity in the spot.

Gere-Shetty kiss sparks Indian lawsuits Last Updated: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 9:27 AM ET, The Associated Press

See also book discussion @ Google Video:

Cyber worship in Multifaith perspective - part1

Cyber worship in Multifaith perspective - part2

Cyber worship in Multifaith perspective - part3

Cyber worship in Multifaith perspective - part4

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So much of visual literary genre, so little time to categorize it

Information Seeking Behavior of the Believers

The information-seeking behavior of pastoral clergy : A study of the interaction of their work worlds and work roles, WICKS D. A, Library & information science research 1999, vol. 21, no2, pp. 205-226 (4 p.)

The role of the research phase in information seeking behaviour of Jewish studies scholars: a modification of Ellis's behavioural characteristics, by J. Bronstein Information Research, Vol. 12 No. 3, April 2007,

[pdf] INFORMATION-SEEKING BEHAVIOUR OF INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA LAW FACULTY MEMBERS, by Shaheen Majid1 and Gava Mugeraa Kassim, Malaysian Journal of Library & Information Science, Vol.5, no.2, December 2000: 1-17

Information seeking behaviour of the Catholic religious in Ibadan, Nigeria, Airenobeuan Edale Adetimirin, Information Research, Vol. 10 No. 1, 2004,

 Investigating the Seeking Behavior for Religious Information in Social Media: International Journal of Information Systems and Social Change (IJISSC) 7(4) ... Volume 7: 4 Issues (2016).

Information-Seeking Behavior of Clergy: The Research, the Results, and the Future Jacob Dankasa

Neelameghan, A. (1999). Lateral relations and links in multicultural, multimedia databases in the spiritual and religious domains: Some observations. Knowledge Organization, 26 (2), 74-79.

Dervin, Brenda (1992). From the mind’s eye of the user: The sense-making qualitative-quantitative methodology. In Jack D. Glazier & Ronald R. Powell (Eds.) Qualitative research in information management. (pp. 61-84). Englewood: Libraries Unlimited.

[pdf] Web Searching in the Context of Information Seeking in Everyday Life: The Cases of Civic and Spiritual Action A Research Proposal, Jarkko Kari and Reijo Savolainen,

Information-Seeking Behavior of the Humanists, by Li-min Cheng Journal of Educational Media and Library Sciences, Volume 29 No. 4, pp. 388-410 (June 1992)

AN ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INFORMATION SOURCES AND CREATIVITY IN SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS, by CONRAD J. Human Communication Research Volume 4 Issue 2 Page 113 - January 1978

Ferahian, Salwa, "Analysis of the reference questions at the Islamic Studies Library" Middle Eastern Library Association Notes 37, 1986 pp. 9-17.

Heinström, Jannica, 1970- Fast surfers, broad scanners, and deep divers : personality and information-seeking behaviour / Jannica Heinström, Åbo [Finland] : Åbo Akademis förlag : Åbo Akademi University Press, 2002. Thesis (doctoral)

[ppt] Joseph Owen - Presentation: Children and Religious Information




See also previous posts:

Vertical and tacit: Multifaith and Knowledge Management in Perspective

Save the Time of the Godly: Information Mediators Role in Promoting Spiritual & Religious Accommodation

Multifaith Stacks: A New Book for the Information Professionals

KM, IM, DM - Survival of the Fittest

Multifaith Stacks: Reading Between the Shelves

Book Reveiw # 4 - Cyber Worship in Multifaith Perspectives

This is most recent review of my book: Cyber Worship in Multifaith Perspectives. Previous reviews [published in Sept 2006, Scarecrow Press]

"Visit the Sistine Chapel, attend the Church of Satan, have a question (dial a priest)... would be a useful addition to high school and university reference collections. " ARBA (American Reference Books Annual), vol. 38 (2007)

NB. American Reference Books Annual (ARBA) is Free this week (April 15 - 22, 2007, to celebrate the national library week), read my review online for free:
Publisher: Scarecrow, Lanham, MD (2006)
Price: $45.00pa
ISBN/ISSN: 0-8108-5257-8
Content Area: RELIGIONS
Handbooks and Yearbooks; General Works; Religion; Philosophy and Religion
John W. Storey - Professor of History, Lamar Univ., Beaumont, Tex
ARBA 2007

Several scholars have noted the zest with which American Pentecostals in the twentieth century have taken to the airwaves via radio, television, and satellite to proclaim an "old fashioned gospel," as if there were something anomalous about using cutting-edge means of communication to advance an "old" point of view. In fact, however, religious leaders and institutions have always embraced the latest marvels of modern technology to spread their message. Consequently, it should come as no surprise that religion has found the Internet, and the resulting opportunities for cyber worship are practically unlimited. This study by Mohamed Taher, educated in Indian universities and currently an information specialist at the Ontario Multifaith Council on Spiritual and Religious Care in Toronto, Canada, provides the most comprehensive "map" to religion on the Internet.This is not a guide to "everything one needs to know" about various religious expressions. Instead, it shows how religion functions on the Internet and points toward the remarkable array of religious practices available at one's fingertips. From mainline religions, whether Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, or Buddhist, to "alternative traditions," such as new age movements, paganism, cults, nonconformists, or nonmainstream spiritualities, Taher has cataloged them all. Visit the Sistine Chapel, attend the Church of Satan, have a question (dial a priest)-it is all possible through cyber worship. Without leaving one's living room an individual can have a simulated religious experience from around the globe. Circumnavigation is made earlier with this study, which would be a useful addition to high school and university reference collections.

Cyber worship in Multifaith perspective - part1

Cyber worship in Multifaith perspective - part2

Cyber worship in Multifaith perspective - part3

Cyber worship in Multifaith perspective - part4

Two New Books in Multifaith Perspectives

I came across two new books today, with common threads that explain the emergence of faiths and belief systems (in physical and virtual, respectively), focusing on theories (sociological, anthropological), forces (philosophical, theological) and most importantly, my favorite, i.e., taxonomies.

A word about what makes these distinct:

One deals with evolution of the world religions' influence on European geography; and the other is all-ado-about the cyberspace, with samples from virtual domains in online religions / religions online (or e-religions).
Furthermore, the first title drew my attention with its sub-title on pluralism; and second, for Web analytics, my yet another favorite.

The invention of world religions, or, How European universalism was preserved in the language of pluralism / Tomoko Masuzawa (U Chicago, 2005). Table of contents @ Library of Congress
* reviewed in:

Boettcher, S.R. "The Invention of Worls Religions: Or, How European Universalism was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism.(Brief article)(Book review)." CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 43.8 (April 2006): 1419-1420. InfoTrac Information Science & Technology eCollection.
[Tomoko Masuzawa teaches European intellectual history and critical theory at the University of Michigan, where she holds a joint appointment in the Department of History and the Program in Comparative Literature. She is the author of In Search of Dream Time: The Quest for the Origin of Religion, also published by the University of Chicago Press.]

E-religion : a critical appraisal of religious discourse on the World Wide Web / Anastasia Karaflogka (Equinox, 2007). @ Table of contents @ Library of Congress
About the author:

[Anastasia Karaflogka is lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, She has designed and teaches a course on religion and cyberspace. Her research interests include religion and: Information Communication Technologies; immersive virtual realities; cyberrituals; robotics and theory and method of cyverreligious discourses. She has contributed to various publications, most recently to the journals Predicting Religion and Religion.]

My related books and publications:

Cyber Worship in Multifaith Perspectives

Taxonomy of Faiths: A semantic journey

My related book reviews:

Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices. Gale Thompson, 2006. Journal of Religious and Theological Info [in press]

Birgit Schabler and Leif Stenberg, Editors. Globalization and the Muslim World: Culture, Religion, and Modernity Syracuse Univ. Press, 2004.. MELA Notes [in press]

Linda Main. Building Websites for a Multinational Audience. Scarecrow Press, 2002. Information Processing and Management, 40, 2004, 583-585.

Julie M. Still. The Accidental Webmaster, Information Today Inc. 2003. Information Resources Management Journal 17, 2004, 79-80.

Melody Y. Ivory. Automated Web Site Evaluation: Researchers' and Practitioners' Perspectives. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. Information Processing and Management, Jan2007, Vol. 43 Issue 1, p. 288-290

Ali Mirsepassi and others, editors. Localizing Knowledge in a Globalizing World: Recasting the Area Studies Debate Syracuse Univ. Press, 2003.MELA Notes 78 (2005): 71-74

Barry Wellman and Caroline Haythornthwaite, Edtors. The Internet in Everyday Life. Blackwell Publishers, 2003. Information Resources Management Journal, 19(1), 98-100, January-March 2006 [Other reviews from my desktop]

My related blog posts:

Cyber Worship Revisited - Balaji, a Hindu priest offering prayers
Special Issue from Religious Studies Review on Religion & Internet

Cybersins and Digital Good Deeds

Christian Librarianship

Web Vastu or A Spiritual Worldview for Marketing Website

Online - Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet

Cyber Worship Revisited - Balaji, a Hindu priest offering prayers

Folks are finding religion online
By KEVIN SULLIVAN, The Washington Post, © March 18, 2007
TIRUCHIRAPALLI, India - Balaji, a Hindu priest, stood before the reclining god and offered a plate of coconut and bananas. His chest bare and his face adorned with red and yellow sacred paste, he set the food at the foot of a statue Hindus regard as an embodiment of the powerful god Vishnu.

Following ancient tradition deep inside one of India's oldest and holiest temples, he chanted Vishnu's names 108 times to beseech health, wealth and good fortune - not for himself but for an Indian emigrant living in London who had bought the prayer with her credit card on a Hindu Web site.
The Internet has become a hub of religious worship for millions of people around the world. Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, Buddhists, Sikhs and people of other faiths turn regularly to Web sites to pray, meditate and gather in "virtual" houses of worship graphically designed to look like the real thing. Some sites offer rites from baptism to confession to conversion to Judaism.

For many cyber-worshipers, online religious life conducted at home or in an Internet cafe has replaced attendance at traditional churches, temples, mosques and synagogues. Some are coming to religion for the first time, in a setting they find as comfortable as their grandparents found a church pew, while millions of people reared on churchgoing are discovering new ways to worship. [Continue reading or read this: Linking Ancient and Modern, A Worldwide Web of Worship]

A comment on the above article:

This seems, to me, like an interesting use of LR quadrant technology (exterior collective) with LL quadrant culture (interior collective), which, for the person involved, has an impact on the UL quadrant psychology (interior individual).

OK, once more in English – I like the way technology is being used in this example as a tool for assisting people with fervent cultural religious belief to satisfy their drive to have their prayers placed in the most auspicious temples. Clearly this is a very superstitious belief system, and one that some of us might see as pre-rational, but for those who hold the beliefs it can be very important to their sense of well-being to know that they have done their best to seek favor from the Gods
[more from this comment: Putting Prayers in Your Shopping Cart, @ WH's Blog

My related posts:

Special Issue from Religious Studies Review on Religion & Internet

Cybersins and Digital Good Deeds

Christian Librarianship

Web Vastu or A Spiritual Worldview for Marketing Website

Online - Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet

Cyber Worship in Multifaith Perspectives

Special Issue from Religious Studies Review on Religion & Internet

PS. Information courtesy: Soup Twin-1 @ When Religion Meets New Media

The latest issue of Religious Studies Review may be of interest to those doing work on religion online...

Special Issue: Religion and the Internet
Guest Editor: Christopher Helland

Read the introduction by Guest Editor Christopher Helland FREE on Blackwell-Synergy

My related posts:

Cybersins and Digital Good Deeds

Christian Librarianship

Web Vastu or A Spiritual Worldview for Marketing Website

Online - Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet

Cyber Worship in Multifaith Perspectives

2007 Weblog Awards - Blog Of The Day Awards - Multifaith Hall of Fame

Top Blog Awards - Multifaith Hall of Fame

Blog of the Day Awards for Sunday January 21, 2007

Previous award: SOB HALL OF FAME

Take home logo for you: Multifaith Hall of Fame

A Visible Pathfinder for Increasing Blog Traffic in 2007

The wise learn from their own experiences but the truly intelligent will learn from someone else's!" - Benjamin Franklin.

My 2007 resolution for return-on-investments in blogging is to have a two-way traffic. The prescription is, please:
1. post a comment--aka, visual signature--in this blog on whatever subject (spam and phishing EXEMPTED)
2. turn on your blog comments' button; I will reciprocate not once, but every post that you create in 2007. This is my own idea of live and let live. I do reciprocate; my 2006 ledger shows Bloggers, such as, Sukhdev Singh, K. G. Schneider, Nancy White, Nirmala Palaniappan, David Tebbutt, Peachy Limpin, Thomas Brevik, Steven Edward Streight, Neil Patel, Diane Levin, and more.


PUNCHLINE: Increasing Blog traffic is a major concern, even for many Gurus [e.g., Adrian W Kingsley-Hughes' Three simple actions that doubled my website traffic in 30 days]
Previous post:

Visualizing Comments on Blogs

Visualizing Traffic At My Blog Via Mapping The Pathways

Blog As A Teaching Tool

Idea courtesy: Bloggers Compose Their Yearly Ledgers, By Jeralyn; and How to Pay for Blog Comments, @ usability blog of John S. Rhodes; So what'd you get? by Ryan Block

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Pakistani groups offer Web festival sacrifice

News © 2006 WN Network

KARACHI (Reuters) - Religious organisations in Pakistan are using the Internet to help Muslims in Western countries buy and sacrifice animals for an annual festival. Eid al-Adha marks the end of the Haj pilgrimage each year to Mecca and is known as the feast of sacrifice.
Animals are available on the Web sites for between $100 (51 pounds) for a goat and $450 for a cow.
Some Islamic groups shun the Internet, however, as Web purchases involve paying interest, which is prohibited under Islamic law.
"On Web sites, normally buyers have to pay interest on purchases made on their credit cards," said Rizwan Edhi of the Edhi trust. "We're better off avoiding any controversy relating to Islamic laws." Full Story
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NB. More on Cyber Worship, i.e., use of Internet for services, products, etc. relating to religion (aka Online religion, Religions online), at
Cyber Worship in Multifaith Perspectives, by Mohamed Taher, Scarecrow Press, 2006.