Description: Jesus : The Making of a New Christian Fundamentalist Community on the Internet, Hardcover by Howard, Robert Glenn, ISBN 0814773087, ISBN-13 9780814773086, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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. 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, Jesus also serves as a succinct history of the development of online group communications.
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Book Title: Digital Jesus : The Making of a New Christian Fundamentalist Comm
Number of Pages: 223 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Digital Jesus : the Making of a New Christian Fundamentalist Community on the Internet
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication Year: 2011
Subject: Fundamentalism, Christianity / General, Eschatology
Item Height: 0.6 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Author: Robert Glenn Howard
Subject Area: Religion
Item Length: 9 in
Series: New and Alternative Religions Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
