Church as Network

Christian Life and Connection in Digital Culture

AvJeffrey H. Mahan

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Just as the emergence of print and literacy created conditions for vast religious change at the time of the Reformation, the emergence of a digital culture shaped by computers and the internet has led to radically different assumptions about religious identity, how people connect and maintain transformative relationships, and how people follow and give authority to leaders. The central issues concerning this digital culture are not technological but theological and anthropological. Old models of stable religious identity and community seem irrelevant in a culture in which everyone is in motion. The book identifies three profound changes produced by digital culture which challenge existing understandings of church: 1) a shift to seeing Christian identity as an ongoing constructive project, 2) the development of fluid networked forms of community, and 3) the emergence of less hierarchical more conversational forms of leadership.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-12-15
Mått:161 x 227 x 15 mm
Vikt:431 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:174
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781538135792

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Jeffrey H. Mahan holds the Ralph E. and Norma E. Peck Chair in Religion and Public Communication and is Professor of Ministry, Media and Culture at Iliff School of Theology in Denver. He is affiliate faculty at the Center for Media, Religion and Culture at the University of Colorado in Boulder and co-editor with Bruce David Forbes of Religion and Popular Culture in America.

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Mahan does an admirable job of describing the challenges that digital enculturation poses for congregations and why many find it difficult to respond faithfully. He writes as sympathetically about resistance to change as he does about new forms of religious identity and practice. He seriously considers whether traditional congregations are necessary for the spread of the gospel and concludes that christians would do well to focus less on “fixed congregations” and more on “building networks of conversation and formation” everywhere that people gather, whether in-person or online.