Stefan Gelfgren

Why Do Christian Churches Build Congregations Online?

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the different ways that Christian churches perceive and use digital media in their external work. This is explored through three different case studies, with dissimilar approaches to digital media, to understand the prerequisites and conditions for media usage from a religious institutional perspective.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 370g
• ISBN-13: 9781032718996
• ISBN-10: 1032718994
• Artikelnr.: 75016756

Autorenporträt

Stefan Gelfgren is Associate Professor of Sociology of Religion at Umeå University, Sweden. His research interests include religion and digital media, the history of Evangelical revivalist movements, Digital Humanities, and surveillance studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Theoretical Point of Departure 3. The Swedish Case -
Secular and Mediatized 4. What Different Onlyine Presences Look Like 5. Why
or Why Not Use Internet for Digital Communication 6. Organizations and
Organizational Negotiating Processes 7. In Response to the Affordances of
Digital Communication 8. The Digital versus the Analogous Congregation 9.
The Future - Digital Media, AI, and more 10. So - What Drives the
Development?