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Howard, Robert Glenn

 
9780814773086: Digital Jesus: The Making of a New Christian Fundamentalist Community on the Internet
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ISBN 10 : 0814773087 ISBN 13 : 9780814773086
Editeur : New York University Press, 2011

Synopsis

A fascinating exposition of Christian online communication networks and the Internet's power to build a movement

In the 1990s, Marilyn Agee developed one of the most well-known amateur evangelical websites focused on the "End Times", The Bible Prophecy Corner. Around the same time, Lambert Dolphin, a retired Stanford physicist, started the website Lambert's Library to discuss with others online how to experience the divine. While Marilyn and Lambert did not initially correspond directly, they have shared several correspondents in common. Even as early as 1999 it was clear that they were members of the same online network of Christians, a virtual church built around those who embraced a common ideology.

Digital Jesus documents how such like-minded individuals created a large web of religious communication on the Internet, in essence developing a new type of new religious movement--one without a central leader or institution. Based on over a decade of interaction with figures both large and small within this community, Robert Glenn Howard offers the first sustained ethnographic account of the movement as well as a realistic and pragmatic view of how new communication technologies can both empower and disempower the individuals who use them. By tracing the group's origins back to the email lists and "Usenet" groups of the 1980s up to the online forums of today, Digital Jesus also serves as a succinct history of the development of online group communications.

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À propos de l'auteur

Robert Glenn Howard is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Currently he is associate director of the Folklore Program at Wisconsin and editor of the journal Western Folklore.

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Éditeur
New York University Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0814773087
ISBN 13 
9780814773086
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
223
Coordonnées du fabricant
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