132 Pages
by
Routledge
132 Pages
by
Routledge
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Why Do Christian Churches Build Congregations Online? examines the different ways that Christian churches and denominations perceive and use digital media in their external work. This is explored through three different case studies, with dissimilar approaches to digital media, to understand the prerequisites and conditions for media usage from a religious institutional perspective. The case... Read more
1 Introduction
2 Theoretical point of departure
3 The Swedish case — secular and mediatized
4 What the different online presences look like
5 Why or why not use internet for digital communication
6 Organizations and organizational negotiating processes
7 In response to the affordances of digital communication
8 The digital versus the analog congregation
9 The future — digital media, AI, and more
10 So — what drives the development?
Biography
Stefan Gelfgren is Associate Professor of Sociology of Religion at Umeå University, Sweden. His research interests include religion and digital media, the history of Evangelical revivalist movements, Digital Humanities, and surveillance studies.
