TY - JOUR T1 - Catholic, protestant and holistic spiritual appropriations of the internet JF - Information, Communication & Society Y1 - 2011 A1 - Noomen, I A1 - Aupers, S A1 - Houtman, D KW - Catholic KW - internet KW - Protestant KW - religion KW - spiritual AB - This article relies on in-depth qualitative interviews with 21 web designers, active in the fields of Catholicism, Protestantism and holistic spirituality in the Netherlands, to study religious appropriations of the Internet. The authors found that these different religious groups embraced the medium of the Internet motivated by a common desire to make oneself heard in the cacophony of voices that has resulted from processes of secularization and religious change. In doing so, Catholic web designers struggle with the dilemma of either following Roman orthodoxy or creating room for dialogue and diversity, whereas their Protestant counterparts feel forced to either let a thousand flowers bloom or surrender to a highly compromised image of their faith. Holistic spirituality, finally, struggles with neither of these problems and appropriates the Internet as its virtually natural habitat for sharing and connecting. The authors conclude that, consistent with theories about cultured technology and spiritualizing of the Internet, offline religious heritages matter a lot when religions seek to appropriate the Internet through web design. These appropriations tend not to be smooth transpositions of coherent and conflict-free offline religious heritages to online environments, however, but conflict-ridden processes stirring long-standing struggles over authority and identity. VL - 14 UR - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2011.597415 IS - 8 ER - TY - THES T1 - TV : Satan or Savior? : Protestant responses to television in the 1950s Y1 - 1999 A1 - Michele Ann Rosenthal KW - 1950 KW - communication research KW - Mass media KW - media and religion KW - Protestant KW - Television PB - University of Chicago VL - The Divinity School UR - http://www.worldcat.org/title/tv-satan-or-savior-protestant-responses-to-television-in-the-1950s/oclc/43658625 ER -