Pagans Online and Offline
Locating Community in Postmodern Times
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2154704 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Angela Coco (0000-0001-7815-3451, Southern Cross University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 510-530 |
| Publication date | 2008-07-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Spectrum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0273-2173 • E-ISSN: 1521-0707 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02732170802206138 |
| OpenAlex | W2337682945 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 31 |
This article examines the ways Australian Pagans use e-mail discussion lists as a means of fostering community among dispersed offline practitioners. Sociologists struggle with ways of characterizing the Pagan movement. It appears to lack the necessary set of uniform beliefs and organizational features that reference community relations in other religions. However, new information and communication technologies (ICTs) accompanying globalization are changing the forms of human association and have stimulated speculation regarding the extent to which they foster community. Existing conceptualizations of community suffer from the historical emergence of the “virtual”/“real” distinction and are inadequate to characterizing sociability in the networked society. Wenger's theory of a “community of practice” (1998 Wenger , Etienne . 1998 . Communities of Practice . Cambridge , UK : Cambridge University Press .[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) is suggested as a way through this dilemma. The “community of practice” model is used to examine how Pagans integrate online and offline communications. Pagan social practices illustrate the ways in which individuals negotiate personal meanings and a sense of community in postmodern times
Business · Community building · Dilemma · Epistemology · ICTS · Information and Communications Technology · Media studies · Negotiation · Online and offline · Online community · Political science · Postmodernism · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · Speculation · Computer Science · Law · Media, Religion, Digital Communication · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
Breaking out
Social Forms of Religion and Religions in Contemporary Global Society
The Internet in Everyday Life
Religion and Cyberspace
The Network Society
Communities of Practice
The Emergence of On-Line Community
Bowling alone
Modernity and self-identity
Conflict
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Communities in Cyberspace
Cyberhenge
Modernity and Self-Identity
Identity and deception in the virtual community
Teaching New Religious Movements
Outline of a Theory of Practice
The new shape of online community
Making Space for Religion in Internet Studies
A Community of Witches
Religion and the Socialorder
The social construction of reality
A Community of Witches
Meaning and Place
Discourses of Authenticity Within a Pagan Community
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,31 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |