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Un appel à contribution est ouvert pour un numéro spécial de Sociology of Religion, Volume 6: Religion and Internet (à paraître 2015, dir. Enzo Pace, Göran Larsson et Daniel Enstedt). Date limite de candidature 15 décembre 2013; réponse 15 janvier 2014; textes 7 000 mots: 15 juillet 2014.The issue Religion and Internet focuses on the current state of research. In particular, it provides on one hand a comprehensive overview of the different approaches and theoretical perspectives confronted in studying religion online, and on the other, a selection of research reports concerning both traditional religions and so-called predominantly online religion. The first goal is not only to reflect on the progress of theoretical and empirical studies, but also and especially to what extend common themes, languages, and methodological tools are sharing by scholars as well as persisting problems related the structural ambivalence of the object between religion and communication, reality and virtuality, great religious traditions and innovation, which sometimes reach paradoxical extremes. The second goal is to explore the nexus between information and communication technologies, and religion, and, more precisely, how both religious organizations and individuals make use of new technologies with regard to religion.A preliminary list of issues:- Religious information and communication (computer assisted): theoretical perspectives- Online religion, rituals and worships- Monasteries online (Christian, Buddhist, Hindu ....)- Online religious communities- The new frontier of the missionary's activities- Reconstruction of the religious identity in the cyber-religion- Methodology issues- New and old paradigms studying religion in the cyberspace- Comparative studies of religion in the cyberspace- Religious conflicts in the web- Real and virtual religious authority- Net-sect and net-church- Religion, information and communication new technologies.Please send all proposals (300 words) to Enzo Pace: vincenzo.pace@unipd.it. 