@book {249, title = {Digital Jesus. The Making of a New Christian Fundamentalist Community on the Internet}, year = {2011}, publisher = {New York University Press}, organization = {New York University Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {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{\textquoteright}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 Jesusdocuments 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 dis-empower the individuals who use them. By tracing the group{\textquoteright}s origins back To The email lists and "Usenet" groups of the 1980s up To The online forums of today, Digital Jesusalso serves as a succinct history of the development of online group communications.}, url = {http://books.google.com/books/about/Digital_Jesus.html?id=s4KVSQAACAAJ}, author = {Howard, Robert G} } @inbook {187, title = {Online Ethnography Of Dispensationalist Discourse: Revealed Verses Negotiated Truth}, booktitle = {Religion on the Internet: Research Prospects and Promises}, year = {2000}, pages = {225-246}, publisher = {JAI Press}, organization = {JAI Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {Religion on the Internet is the first systematic inquiry into the nature, scope and content of religion in cyberspace. Contributors to this volume include leading social scientists engaged in systematic studies of how organizations and individuals are presenting religion on the Internet. Their combined efforts provide a conceptual mapping of religion in cyberspace at this moment. The individual papers and collective insights found in this volume add up to a valuable agenda of research that will enrich understanding of this new phenomenon. Among the contributors are the founders of three of the most important scholarly religion web sites on the Internet: American Religion Data Archive, Religious Tolerance, and Religious Movements Homepage. Religion and the Internet is essential reading for all who seek to understand how religion is being presented on the Internet and how this topic is likely to unfold in the years ahead.}, author = {Howard, Robert G} }