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UNINA9910481050903321 |
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Howard Robert Glenn |
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Titolo |
Digital Jesus : The Making of a New Christian Fundamentalist Community on the Internet / / Robert Glenn Howard |
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New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2011] |
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©2011 |
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0-8147-7309-5 |
0-8147-9074-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Collana |
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North American Religions ; ; 5 |
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Disciplina |
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End of the world |
Fundamentalism |
Internet - Religious aspects - Christianity |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- 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 -- About the Author |
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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 |
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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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UNISA996387628803316 |
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By the King. A proclamation inhibiting all persons to repaire to His Maiestie for cure of the disease called, the Kings Euill, vntill Michaelmas next [[electronic resource]] |
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Imprinted at London, : by Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie : and by the assignes of Iohn Bill, 1636 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Charles, King of England, <1600-1649.> |
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Plague - Prevention |
Royal touch - Law and legislation |
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Dated at end: VVestminster, the seuenth day of April, in the twelfth yeere of our reigne. ... |
Arms 21; Steele notation: prescribe His tender. |
Reproduction of the original in the British Library. |
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