Digital Jesus : the making of a new Christian fundamentalist community on the Internet / Robert Glenn Howard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howard, Robert Glenn.

Series:

New and alternative religions series.

The new and alternative religions series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Internet--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Internet.

Fundamentalism.

End of the world.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the 1990's, 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.

Contents:

Introduction : vernacular Christian fundamentalism on the internet

9/11 at the Bible prophecy corner

Networking the Apocalypse

The millennial web, 1996 to 2000

The end times in participatory media

Toward a truer charity

Conclusion : attending to vernacular theology.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780814773093

0814773095

9780814790748

0814790747

OCLC:

779828411