Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-213) and index.

Religious communities and the internet -- Considering the religious-social shaping of technology -- History and media tradition: discovering baselines for religious approaches to new media -- Community value and priorities: contextualizing responses to new media -- Negotiating with new media: to accept, reject, reconfigure, and/or innovate? -- Considering communal discourse: framing new media appropriation -- Studying the religious shaping of new media: the case of the kosher cell phone -- Insights from the religious-social shaping of new media.