Heidi Campbell & Mia Løvheim have put out a call for papers for a special issue of Information, Communication & Society on Religion and the Internet: The Online-Offline Connection, which is also linked in with the 2010 Conference on Media, Religion, and Culture in Toronto (on my wish list to get to next year).

In particular this special issues aims to explore the relationship between online and offline forms of religious practice and community. Key questions include:

• What is truly unique about the performance of religion online?
• How is the practice and conception of religion online connected to offline practices, communities and institutions?
• In what ways does religion online reflect trends seen offline in religious culture and practice?
• How do these transformations connect with issues of globalization and glocalization?

You can read the full CFP over at When Religion Meets New Media: CFP: Special Issue on Religion and the Internet: The Online-Offline Connection.

Related link – article seen today – Religion moves online | Stuff.co.nz