Belonging without Believing: Church as Community in an Age of Digital Media
This article flips on its head Grace Davie’s notion of ‘believing without belonging’. From a consideration of the internet and social networking media as a public space and a new ‘public’ or fifth estate, the article proceeds through a discussion of religious activity online to investigate the conce...
| Published in: | International journal of public theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2015
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| In: |
International journal of public theology
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy CH Christianity and Society RH Evangelization; Christian media |
| Further subjects: | B
Belonging
believing
community
church
digital media
digital theology
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | This article flips on its head Grace Davie’s notion of ‘believing without belonging’. From a consideration of the internet and social networking media as a public space and a new ‘public’ or fifth estate, the article proceeds through a discussion of religious activity online to investigate the concept of community, the function of communication theology and the place of morality in online activity. Finally, the article considers the popularity of Sunday Assembly and concludes that there is a significant move towards belonging without believing both on- and offline. |
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| ISSN: | 1569-7320 |
| Contains: | In: International journal of public theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15697320-12341389 |