Digital Jesus : The Making of a New Christian Fundamentalist Community on the Internet / Robert Glenn Howard.
Howard, Robert Glenn, author.
2011
BR99.74 .H68 2016
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Title Digital Jesus : The Making of a New Christian Fundamentalist Community on the Internet / Robert Glenn Howard.
Author Howard, Robert Glenn, author.
ISBN 9780814790748
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814773086.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2011]
Copyright ©2011
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.18574/nyu/9780814773086.001.0001 doi
Call Number BR99.74 .H68 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 277.308202854678
Summary 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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Series North American Religions ; ; 5
In New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. 9/11 at the Bible Prophecy Corner:
3. Networking the Apocalypse
4 The Millennial Web, 1996 to 2000
5. The End Times in Participatory Media
6. Toward a Truer Charity
7. Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
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