“If you need a virtual community, something is wrong with your congregation”: Institutionalized Laestadianism and the use of digital media

This article studies how the Laestadian movement (a Christian confessional revivalist movement that is sceptical of technology) uses digital media in general, and the internet in particular, in its work. In a time when churches on a large scale are concerned with how to communicate with people throu...

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Published in:Journal of religion, media and digital culture
Main Author: Gelfgren, Stefan 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2016
In: Journal of religion, media and digital culture
Year: 2016, Volume: 5, Issue: 2, Pages: 279-296
Further subjects:B Mediatization
B Church
B Digital humanities
B Laestadianism
B Digital Religion
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