The oftimes amazing online magazine Bitter Winter just published a book review of Michele Olzi’s The Coming of the Digital Gods: Can You Really Get Your Religion from the Web? The review begins:
The study of religion within the context of digitalization and networked spaces has become both unavoidable and essential. Information technology permeates our lives so thoroughly that it cannot be separated from daily experience; it is often integral to it. “Dei Digitali, Religioni Digitali, Media e Immaginari Sociali”—“Digital Gods, Digital Religions, Media and the Social Imaginarium” (Milan and Udine: Mimesis, 2025)—edited by Michele Olzi, guides the reader toward a comprehensive understanding of this expanding field of research. Each chapter builds on the previous one, offering the attentive reader the tools to recognize the methodological approaches introduced in the opening contribution. As this is an Italian volume, I have translated the titles of the papers when necessary; the first contribution, however, was originally written in English and later translated into Italian, so I retain its original title.
Read the whole magilla: https://bitterwinter.org/the-coming-of-the-digital-gods-can-you-really-get-your-religion-from-the-web/
