Posted by Nabil Echchaibi on Thursday, July 9, 2009
Masaryk University's Journal of Law and Technology has just published a special issue on religion and technology edited by Vit Sislerand Robert Geraci. Here is the table of content:
-Robert M. Geraci: Technology and Religion
– An Introduction to the Special Issue -John G. Whitesides: Religion, Genetics, and the Evolving American Experiment with Bioethics (7-32) -Jens Kutscher: The Politics of Virtual Fatwa Counseling in the 21st Century (33-50) -Vit Sisler: European Courts’ Authority Contested? The Case of Marriage and Divorce Fatwas On-line (51-78) -Carmen Becker: “Gaining Knowledge” – Salafi Activism in German and Dutch Online Forums (79-98) -Marek Cejka: Making the Internet Kosher – Orthodox (Haredi) Jews and Their Approach to the World Wide Web (99-110) -Pavel
Sindelar: Whose Message Will Win the Souls? The Future Development of
Religious Life in Cyberspace and Its “Chinese Characteristic” (111-124) -Alexander D. Ornella: The Promethean Myth. An Argument for Methodological Atheism (125-152) -Stef Aupers: “The force is great” – Enchantment and Magic in Silicon Valley (153-173)
I was born and raised in Morocco. My research focuses on the intersections between Islam, Arab popular culture and the media. I'm currently an assistant professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Colorado-Boulder.