The Digital Evangelicals: Contesting Authority and Authenticity After the New Me

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE The Digital Evangelicals by Travis Warren Cooper When it comes to evangelical Christianity, the internet is both a refuge and a threat. It hosts Zoom prayer groups and pornographic videos, religious revolutions and silly cat videos. 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 internets 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. 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 Christian community regardless of physical distance. Cooper, whose work is informed by ethnographic fieldwork, traces these conflicting paradigms from the Protestant Reformation through the rise of the digital and argues that the tension is culminating in a crisis of evangelical authority. What counts as authentic interaction? Who has authority over the circulation of information?While many studies claim that technology influences religion, The Digital Evangelicals reveals how Protestant metaphors and discourses shaped the emergence of the internet and explores what this relationship with global new media means for evangelicalism. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Travis Warren Cooper is Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at Indiana University Bloomington. Table of Contents AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Media and Message1. Media Sincerity and Promiscuity: Origins2. Evangelical Media Ecologies from Print to the Internet3. Evangelical Theories of the DigitalPart II: Authenticity Construction across New Media: Case Studies4. #FareWellRobBell: Heresy Discourse and the Horizontalization of Authority5. Feminist Publics and the Progressive Evangelical Blogosphere6. Instagram, Authenticity, AffectPart III: Local Technologies in a Global World7. Emerging Midwestern Evangelicals and Digital Media8. Media Ambivalence in Emerging EvangelicalismConclusion: Zoom Church, Cancel Culture, and the Exportation of Evangelical MediaAppendixGlossaryBibliographyIndex Review Shedding light on the profound phenomenon of digital evangelicalism, this book sparkles with illuminating insights on the contemporary tensions and paradoxes of religious authority, as well as the vital role of new media for religious organizing in a datafied world. The Digital Evangelicals assembles a range of multimodal data across platforms to help us think more deeply about the communicative constitution of religious authority, authenticity and community. -- Pauline Hope Cheong, co-editor of Digital Religion, Social Media and Culture: Perspectives, Practices and FuturesThe Digital Evangelicals is much-needed intervention in a field chock full of books telling you what so-called evangelicals "really are" or "really should be." Coopers attention to the discourses that define the boundaries of evangelical identity and community offer an important corrective to the search for the best definition of evangelicalism. Drawing on a unique archive of digital sources, The Digital Evangelicals shows how claims about "authentic" evangelicalism are really battles over authority and power. -- Michael J. Altman, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of AlabamaThe Digital Evangelicals is an ambitious, impressive, unprecedented work. Part cultural history, part critical textual analysis, part ethnography, it is more than the sum of these parts. Coopers book demands a fundamental reconsideration of what it means to analyze evangelicalism as a hybrid online-offline cultural form. -- James Bielo, author of Emerging Evangelicals: Faith, Modernity, and the Desire for AuthenticityThe Digital Evangelicals is an impressive text. In addition to detailing how todays emerging evangelicals engage new media, Cooper also provides a framework for rethinking what, exactly, this thing called evangelicalism even is. Through richly detailed ethnographies of Twitter debates, Instagram rituals, and Zoom church services, the book charts how communities constitute evangelicalism through media—and how social media might play a role in evangelicalisms undoing. The book is impressive both for its breadth of its analysis and the depth of its theoretical critique. -- Christopher Cantwell, co-editor of Introduction to Digital Humanities: Research Methods in the Study of Religion Review Quote The Digital Evangelicals is much-needed intervention in a field chock full of books telling you what so-called evangelicals "really are" or "really should be." Coopers attention to the discourses that define the boundaries of evangelical identity and community offer an important corrective to the search for the best definition of evangelicalism. Drawing on a unique archive of digital sources, The Digital Evangelicals shows how claims about "authentic" evangelicalism are really battles over authority and power. Details ISBN025306225X Author Travis Warren Cooper Short Title The Digital Evangelicals Publisher Indiana University Press Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 025306225X ISBN-13 9780253062253 Format Hardcover Imprint Indiana University Press Place of Publication Bloomington, IN Country of Publication United States Pages 378 Publication Date 2022-08-02 AU Release Date 2022-08-02 NZ Release Date 2022-08-02 US Release Date 2022-08-02 UK Release Date 2022-08-02 Subtitle Contesting Authority and Authenticity After the New Media Turn Illustrations 9 Tables, black and white; 4 Illustrations, black and white Alternative 9780253062260 DEWEY 280.40977 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! 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