Professor Arthur Farnsley Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis Religion Research in the Digital Age.

1. Professor Arthur Farnsley
Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
Religion Research in the Digital Age
© 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd

2. How has technological innovation
changed the way research has been
conducted over the last several years?
Are digital resources widely embraced
in the religious studies community?

3. Has the religious studies community
been slower to embrace the potential
of technological innovation?

4. How has the widespread adoption of
specialist software for organizing and
analyzing, and the internet for
disseminating data affected religious
studies?

5. In addition to opening up new
possibilities, how do you think
technology will affect future research
priorities?

6. Do you think the uptake of digital
technology will help religious studies
scholars answer criticism from other
fields that religious studies is
insufficiently social scientific?

7. Has the internet had a significant
impact on how we teach students, and
the work they produce?

8. What advice would you give early
career scholars about how to help
their students evaluate internet
resources?

9. As the internet expands will scholarly,
peer-reviewed journals become more
important in undergraduate teaching,
as their scholarly integrity is reliable?

10. As the chief executive of the Society
for the Scientific Study of Religion,
which publishes a highly regarded
journal, what are your thoughts on
how the digital revolution has affected
the dissemination of scholarly
articles?

11. In what ways do academics use digital
media to reach out to the wider public?

12. Do you think that in the near future
funding bodies may favor academics
who are better at engaging with the
wider public?

13. Would you advise early career
scholars to treat public outreach with
caution?

14. Even though the fundamental
responsibilities of the academy may
not change, might the possibilities the
digital revolution is opening up cause
us to rethink what we value?