Introduction

Abstract

The new modes of digital communication have both lay and scholarly discourses struggling to adapt. The descriptive challenge is, indeed, a formidable one as the range and depth of implications in technology, society, culture, and practice have yet to fully reveal themselves. In the field of architecture and planning, “third space” has been identified with the work of Edward Soja, whose influence has spread well beyond. Emerging expressions of digital religion are significantly articulated with two important trends: the coincidence of the increasing prominence of digital mediation on the one hand and the persistence and re-imagining of the category of “the religious” in contemporary life on the other. The digital sphere is a central social and cultural phenomenon and a dominant theme of much contemporary public and private discourse. Religion has had a troubled and contested place in media studies.