Networks of Belief

Contributors to this special issue examine the belief that our lives are structured by networks—viral, communal, technological, academic, and even medieval—to inquire whether our categories for discussing and thinking about belief are not in fact themselves networked. Thus, the belief in the network, they argue, becomes a lens through which to understand the complexity of contemporary and past systems, as well as a way to reconsider new notions of belief, community, and theory around religious studies more generally.

Contributors: Aaron Frederick Eldridge, Brett Zehner, Alex Dubilet, Carina Albrecht, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Laura Kurgan, Matteo Pasquinelli, Luciana Parisi, Jeffrey Moro, Dayl Maude, Maria de Abreu, Kathleen Cruz Gutierrez, Peter Myers, Kimberly Bain