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Japanese Religions on the Internet Innovation, Representation and Authority Edited by Erica Baffelli, Ian Reader and Birgit Staemmler Japanese Religions on the Internet Routledge Studies in Religion, Media, and Culture 1. Religion and Commodifi cation ‘Merchandizing’ Diasporic Hinduism Vineeta Sinha 2. Japanese Religions on the Internet Innovation, Representation and Authority Edited by Erica Baffelli, Ian Reader and Birgit Staemmler Japanese Religions on the Internet Innovation, Representation and Authority Edited by Erica Baffelli, Ian Reader and Birgit Staemmler New York London First published 2011 by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2011 Taylor & Francis The right of the Erica Baffelli, Ian Reader and Birgit Staemmler to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Pat- ents Act 1988. Typeset in Sabon by IBT Global. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereaf- ter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trade- marks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Japanese religions on the Internet : innovation, representation, and authority / edited by Erica Baffelli, Ian Reader, and Birgit Staemmler. p. cm. — (Routledge research in religion, media, and culture ; 2) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Religion and sociology—Japan. 2. Internet—Religious aspects. I. Baffelli, Erica, 1976– II. Reader, Ian, 1949– III. Staemmler, Birgit, 1967– BL2011.S63J37 2011 200.952—dc22 2010033407 ISBN13: 978-0-415-88643-7 (hbk) ISBN13: 978-0-203-83122-9 (ebk) Contents List of Figures vii List of Tables ix Note on Japanese Names, Terms and Transliteration xi Acknowledgements xiii Introduction 1 PART I Religion and the Internet in Japan: Overview and Concepts 1 Media and Religion in Japan 7 ERICA BAFFELLI, IAN READER AND BIRGIT STAEMMLER 2 Internet and Religion in Japan: Innovation, Representation and Authority 20 ERICA BAFFELLI, IAN READER AND BIRGIT STAEMMLER PART II Case Studies 3 The Situation of Japanese Traditional Buddhism in the Web 2.0 Era: Who Attacks and Who Guards the Religion? 39 FUKAMIZU KENSHIN 4 Preserving the Dignity of Shinto Shrines in the Age of the Internet: A Social Context Analysis 62 KUROSAKI HIROYUKI vi Contents 5 The Shikoku Pilgrimage Online: Offi cial Sites, Promotion, Commerce and the Replication of Authority 80 IAN READER 6 Pilgrim Leadership Rendered in HTML: Bloggers and the Shikoku Henro 101 JOHN SHULTZ 7 Charismatic Blogger? Authority and New Religions on the Web 2.0 118 ERICA BAFFELLI 8 Caught in the Net: Celebrity Representation and Japanese Religion from Historical and Contemporary Perspectives 136 BENJAMIN DORMAN 9 Shaping Shamanism Online: Patterns of Authority in Wikipedia 150 BIRGIT STAEMMLER 10 Refl exive Self-Identifi cation of Internet Users and the Authority of Sōka Gakkai: Analysis of Discourse in a Japanese BBS 173 TAMURA TAKANORI AND TAMURA DAIYŪ Conclusions and Issues for Future Research 196 ERICA BAFFELLI, IAN READER AND BIRGIT STAEMMLER Bibliography 201 List of Contributors 217 Index 219 Figures 3.1 Honganji’s offi cial website. 45 3.2 Honganji Web TV. 46 3.3 The Jōdo Shinshū Studies and Research Center’s digital archive. 47 3.4 The ‘long tail’. 55 10.1 Word map of news sections in 2ch (higher than Jaccard coeffi cient 2.0). 186 Tables 8.1 Blog Postings Related to J-CAST News Article 144 10.1 “Belief” and “Importance of religious feeling” in Japan, Change in Time Series (%) 177 10.2 Interest in Religion Among Internet Users in Japan, Online Survey, 2006 177 10.3 List of Most Frequent Terms (Not Including Direct References to SG or Ikeda Daisaku) 184 10.4 Jaccard Coeffi cient Matrix of Frequent Words 185
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