Virtual Vodou, Actual Practice
Virtual Vodou, Actual Practice
Transfiguring the Technological
This chapter explores the intersection of digital technologies and the public visibility of Vodou. It examines not only how digital technologies are used and understood by practitioners (including newcomers to the religion), but also how the affordances of digital technologies—the possibilities and limits generated by the interaction between technology and technology use—shape manifestations of Vodou in the digital public sphere. Because online Vodou encompasses both representation and practice, the chapter examines a range of instances where Vodou and technology intersect, both in the religious practices of adherents to the religion and also at the level of popular imagination.
Keywords: Vodou, Voodoo (in popular culture), Digital Religion, Haiti, Gibson, William, Cyberspace, Religious e-commerce
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