Digital Jesus : the making of a new Christian fundamentalist community on the Internet
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Digital Jesus : the making of a new Christian fundamentalist community on the Internet
(The new and alternative religions series)
New York University Press, c2011
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: Vernacular Christian Fundamentalism on the Internet 2 9/11 at the Bible Prophecy Corner: Enacting the Virtual Ekklesia 3 Networking the Apocalypse: End Times Communication in Newsgroups and Email Lists, 1992 to 1995 4 The Millennial Web, 1996 to 2000 5 The End Times in Participatory Media: Rapture Ready and Beyond 6 Toward a Truer Charity: Tolerance in an Age of Network Media 7 Conclusion: Attending to Vernacular Theology Notes References Index About the Author
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