Online Catholic Communities Community, Authority, and Religious Individualization Routledge Studies in Religion and Digital Culture Series
Auteur : Kołodziejska Marta
The Catholic Church has been moving into a new phase, one where its congregation can choose to meet and practice elements of their own version of their faith on online forums. This new form of congregating allows for an individualised faith to manifest itself outside of the usual church authority structures. Online Catholic Communities provides insight into how religious and non-religious internet forum users interact and form groups during interactions; it also discusses the transformation of religious authority and its emanations in these digital contexts.
Using the top three online forums used by Polish Catholics as a case study, this project explores the formation of these online communities. It then looks at the alternative authority structures that emerge online and how these lead to an individualised form of religious engagement that can develop independently of mainstream doctrine. Through highlighting how religious discourse in Poland is appropriated and creatively modified by users in fulfilling their own spiritual needs, this work reveals the constant interplay between online and offline religious contexts.
This monograph includes cutting edge research on online expressions of religious community, authority and individualisation and as such will be of keen interest to scholars of religious studies and the sociology of religion, as well as communication studies.
Introduction 1 Understanding the relationship between religious individualisation, community, and authority online 2 Online communities as a process 3 Formation of religious authority 4 Symbolic boundaries of online communities The permanence of community? Concluding remarks
Marta Kołodziejska is a researcher at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw, Poland.
Date de parution : 08-2020
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 04-2018
15.6x23.4 cm
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Mots-clés :
Online Religious Communities; Catholic Forums; Online Catholic Communities; Informal Experts; Marta Kołodziejska; Religious Knowledge; Marta Kolodziejska; Forum Rules; Roman Catholic; Religious Authority; Poland; Offline Religious Community; Internet Forum; Religious Individualisation; mediatised worlds; Forum Users; Polish Catholicism; Computer Mediated Discourse Analysis; religion and media; Community Building Functions; forum.wiara.pl; Humanae Vitae; dyskusje.katolik.pl; Ordinary Catholics; adonai.pl/zrodelko; Centrum Badania Opinii; Online Religion; Religious individualization; Negative Politeness; Benedict XVI; Magic Bullet Theories; Institutional Religious Authority; Pope Benedict XVI; Offline Counterparts; Networked Religion; OCM; Western Secular Culture; Online Communities