The Digital Evangelicals: Contesting Authority and Authenticity After the New Media Turn Cooper Travis Warren
The Digital Evangelicals: Contesting Authority and Authenticity After the New Media Turn Cooper Travis Warren When it comes to evangelical Christianity, the internet is both a refuge and a threat.…
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The Digital Evangelicals: Contesting Authority and Authenticity After the New Media Turn Cooper Travis Warren
When it comes to evangelical Christianity, the internet is both a refuge and a threat. Platforms such as social media, podcasts, blogs, and digital Bibles all constitute new arenas for debate about social and religious boundaries, theological and ecclesial orthodoxy, and the internet's inherent danger and value.In The Digital Evangelicals, Travis Warren Cooper locates evangelicalism as a media event rather than as a coherent religious tradition by focusing on the intertwined narratives of evangelical Christianity and emerging digital culture in the United States. It hosts Zoom prayer groups and pornographic videos, religious revolutions and silly cat videos.
He focuses on two dominant media traditions: media sincerity, immediate and direct interpersonal communication, and media promiscuity, communication with the primary goal of extending the