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Table of Contents

Editor’s Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Jewish Cyber-Theology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

2. The Internet and Jewish Religious Practice . . . . 5

A. Sexual modesty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

B. The Internet and the Sabbath . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

C. e-commerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

D. The sanctity of Internet communication . . . . 7

E. Political and social gossip on the Internet . . . 8

3. The Virtual Synagogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

4. Online Rabbinic Counseling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

5. Conclusion: Future Prospects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Catholic Approaches to the Internet . . . . . . . . . . 14

1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

2. Internet and Evangelization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

3. Ethical Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

A. The digital divide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

B. Community and the Internet:

Social networking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

4. Living with the Internet: Internet Literacy . . . . . 19

5. Pastoral Use of the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

6. Critique of the Church’s Approach

to the Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Islam and Islamic Teaching Online . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Hinduism and the Internet:

A Selected Annotated Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

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