“In-Line Religion”: Innovative Pastoral Applications of the New Information and Communication Technologies (NICTS) by the Catholic Church in Nigeria

This paper joins the growing corpus of literature on the relationship between religion and the new information and communication technologies in Africa. However, the case I will be presenting may not fall neatly into the two afore-mentioned categories. That is why I termed it innovative, and would classify it as an in-line religion, ‘in’ standing for indirect religious application of NICT. This paper thus advances a new perspective in studying the application of new information and communication technologies in religious belief and praxis in Africa.