%0 Book Section %B Christianity in the Modern World: Changes and Controversies %D 0 %T The Dis/Embodied Church: Worship, new media and the body %A Tim Hutchings %K New Media %K online church %B Christianity in the Modern World: Changes and Controversies %I Routledge %G eng %& 2 %0 Journal Article %J Word and World %D 2015 %T REAL VIRTUAL COMMUNITY %A Tim Hutchings %K virtual community %X Virtual community can be real community. An example is the Church of Fools (now St Pixels), launched as an experiment eleven years ago, meant to last but three months. However, that experiment created a congregation that is still alive today, one in which people carry on public discussions with sufficient human feelings to form webs of personal relationships online. %B Word and World %V 35 %8 04/2015 %G eng %U https://wordandworld.luthersem.edu/issues.aspx?article_id=3847 %N 2 %0 Book Section %B Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds %D 2013 %T Considering Religious Community Through Online Churches %A Tim Hutchings %K Christian Churches %K Contemporary Religious Community %K New Media and Society %K new media engagement %K online Christianity %K online church %K Religion and the Internet %K religious engagement %K Sociology of religion %K “religion online” %B Digital Religion: Understanding Religious Practice in New Media Worlds %I Routledge %G eng %U http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415676113/ %1 Heidi A. Campbell %& 13 %0 Book %D 2017 %T Creating Church Online %A Tim Hutchings %K Church %K Online %X Creating Church Online constructs a rich ethnographic account of the diverse cultures of online churches, from virtual worlds to video streams. This book also outlines the history of online churchgoing, from its origins in the 1980s to the present day, and traces the major themes of academic and Christian debate around this topic. Applying some of the leading current theories in the study of religion, media and culture to this data, Tim Hutchings proposes a new model of religious design in contexts of mediatization, and draws attention to digital networks, transformative third spaces and terrains of existential vulnerability. Creating Church Online advances our understanding of the significance and impact of digital media in the religious and social lives of its users, in search of new theoretical frameworks for digital religion. %I Routledge %C New York %G eng %U https://books.google.com/books?id=jCElDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA240&lpg=PA240&dq=tim+hutchings+spreading+church+online&source=bl&ots=iGY5FUbRlM&sig=KIk6zTYbFqQ5mnzw8cTwtlbmezk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjV_4yHzvvaAhVG1IMKHZT9DIwQ6AEIPzAE#v=onepage&q=tim%20hutchings%20spre