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Digital Jesus: The Making of a New Christian Fundamentalist Community on the Internet
In the 1990s, Marilyn Agee developed one of the most well-known amateur evangelical websites focused on the "End Times," The Bible Prophecy Corner. Around the same time, Lambert Dolphin, a retired Stanford physicist, started the website Lambert's Library to discuss with others online how to experience the divine. While Marilyn and Lambert did not initially correspond direc...more
Paperback, 213 pages
Published
February 16th 2011
by New York University Press
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Howard does an excellent job in this book examining the way in which the Internet has impacted the fundamentalist Christian community. His argument is interesting, as he argues that because fundamentalism is largely rejected by the mainstream Christian discourse, fundamentalists are forced to retreat to "self sealing" online communities. Therefore, instead of fundamentalists being challenged by mainstream Christians, they talk to one another in the echo chambers of the Internet. This is an inter...more
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