Part 1. Digitizing research in the sociology of religion. Methodological challenges, innovations and growing pains in digital religion research / Heidi A. Campbell and Brian Altenhofen -- Surveying the religious and non-religious online / Tristram Hooley and Paul Weller -- Online crowdsourcing methods for identifying and studying religious groups as special populations / Victoria A. Springer, Peter J. Martini and James T. Richardson -- Part 2. Social networking sites and digital ethnography. Facebook as anti-social media: using Facebook groups to engage opponents to the building of Dudley Mosque / Chris Allen -- Analysing YouTube interaction: a discourse-centred approach / Stephen Pihlaja -- Online Sufism: methodological thoughts on researching esoteric Islam in an online context / Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor -- Studying digital Hinduism / Heinz Scheifinger -- Young Sikhs' religious engagement online / Jasjit Singh -- Part 3. Digital communication. Studying apps: research approaches to the digital Bible / Tim Hutchings -- Videoconferencing as a tool facilitating feminist interviews with Muslim women who wear the Niqab / Anna Piela -- Religious organizations on the Internet: a model to analyse communication effectiveness / Daniel Arasa and Juan Narbona -- Researching authority in religious organizations from a communicative perspective: a connective online-offline approach / Pauline Hope Cheong, Boris J.H.M. Brummans and Jennie M. Hwang -- Part 4. Virtual reality and religion. Online ethnographic research: avatars in virtual worlds / William Sims Bainbridge -- Researching religion, digital games and gamers: (e- )merging methodologies / Simone Heidbrink, Tobias Knoll and Jan Wysocki -- The G-d in the machine: studying the representation and performance of Judaism in video games using multimodal corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis / Isamar Carrillo Masso -- Afterword: Digital methodologies in the sociology of religion -- what next? / Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor and Suha Shakkour