ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with three dispositions: promotion, cooperation, and reconciliation. Most communities of faith have their own sites but they use them for different purposes: some to promote adherence to their beliefs and attract new converts; some to encourage inter-faith cooperation; and some to promote global peace, environmental sustainability, and reconciliation. Faiths that espouse inter-faith understanding, pacifism, and nonviolence, or promote environmental survival also use the Internet to support these causes rather than to proselytize. The World Wide Web is both a force for globalization and a resource available to religious communities. It may be inappropriate to label humanism as a religious movement because it explicitly rejects faith in any supernatural forces or realities, but it expresses a quasi-religious orientation. It relies on reason and empirical evidence rather than faith to maintain an ethical stance that supports democratic and secular idealism as widely understood around the world.
