Theological Discourses on Social Media

Christopher B. Barnett is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Villanova University, USA.Clark J. Elliston is Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Schreiner University, USA.Trevor B. Williams is a Visiting Assistant Professor at DeSales University, USA.

• PART 1: Social Networks 1. Attention Online: Christian Practice and Facebook Living 2. Twitter as Cybernetic Liberalism: The Apotheosis of Disincarnate Humanity 3. Tinderization and Transcendence: Girard, McLuhan, and the Apocalyptic Imagination PART 2: Media Sharing 4. “You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me”: The Technological Structuring of the imago Dei on Instagram 5. “Despairing of Creation”: Snapchat, Body Dysmorphia, and Creatio ex Nihilo 6. Is Your “For You” Page Really For You?: TikTok, the Human Person, and Living With Social Media 7. YouTube and Christian Formation: Discerning Christ and World PART 3: Collaborative Knowledge and Virtual Reality 8. The Ghostly Voice: Reddit, Digital Space, and the Objectification of Lived Experience 9. Wikipedia and the Unknowable 10. Avatar: Gaming and Living as “Through a Glass, Darkly” 11. Meta Horizon Worlds: From Virtual Reality to Preferred Reality