Catherine Gomes, Lily Kong and Orlando Woods, eds. Religion, Hypermobility and Digital Media in Global Asia.

These chapters are connected with Anna Hickey-Moody and Marissa Willcox's Chapter Three through their shared concern with the way digital media negatively affect religious communities. This aspect of digital media is introduced in chapters One and Two, wherein Wood and Yoe discuss the ways digital media present challenges to traditional forms of religion. First, the online practices of religion through Facebook, YouTube and other media remove the material aspect emphasized in traditional practice, such as the physical place of worship. [Extracted from the article]

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