LEADER 03629nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910819296103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8147-7309-5 010 $a0-8147-9074-7 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814790748 035 $a(CKB)2670000000155536 035 $a(EBL)866106 035 $a(OCoLC)779828411 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606312 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11354688 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606312 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10582436 035 $a(PQKB)11501049 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001325830 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC866106 035 $a(OCoLC)794698900 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse4803 035 $a(DE-B1597)547750 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814790748 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000155536 100 $a20100816d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|un|u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDigital Jesus $ethe making of a new Christian fundamentalist community on the Internet /$fRobert Glenn Howard 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (224 p.) 225 1 $aThe new and alternative religions series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8147-7310-9 311 0 $a0-8147-7308-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : 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. 330 $aIn the 1990's, Marilyn Agee developed one of the most well-known amateur evangelical websites focused on the ?End Times?, The Bible Prophecy Corner. Around the same time, Lambert Dolphin, a retired Stanford physicist, started the website Lambert?s Library to discuss with others online how to experience the divine. While Marilyn and Lambert did not initially correspond directly, they have shared several correspondents in common. Even as early as 1999 it was clear that they were members of the same online network of Christians, a virtual church built around those who embraced a common ideology. Digital Jesus documents how such like-minded individuals created a large web of religious communication on the Internet, in essence developing a new type of new religious movement?one without a central leader or institution. Based on over a decade of interaction with figures both large and small within this community, Robert Glenn Howard offers the first sustained ethnographic account of the movement as well as a realistic and pragmatic view of how new communication technologies can both empower and disempower the individuals who use them. By tracing the group?s origins back to the email lists and ?Usenet? groups of the 1980s up to the online forums of today, Digital Jesus also serves as a succinct history of the development of online group communications. 410 0$aNew and alternative religions series. 606 $aInternet$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 606 $aFundamentalism 606 $aEnd of the world 615 0$aInternet$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 615 0$aFundamentalism. 615 0$aEnd of the world. 676 $a277.3/08202854678 700 $aHoward$b Robert Glenn$01623826 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819296103321 996 $aDigital Jesus$93979462 997 $aUNINA