tweet if u ♥ jesus: spiritual authority, identity, and community in the digital reformation

Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion

Atlanta, GA

Elizabeth Drescher, PhDSanta Clara University

October 31, 2010

Spiritual, Id

entity &

Community in the

Digital Reformation

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Building a Better Bible?

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Go forth and blog…

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“There’s an App for That”

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Media

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A Sociocultural Definition of Christian Spirituality

Christian practice undertaken personally and in community

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Practice

embodiment and institutionalizing of a matrix of “durable, transposable dispositions” that both reinforce and transform traditions as they are enacted in intentional and accidental improvisations

From, Pierre Bourdieu, Outline of a Theory of Practice (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1977)

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Identity

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Evolving Media Relationship

Degree of User Creativity Possible

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Web 1.0

Web 2.0

Web 3.0

Secondary Orality

“a participatory mystique”;

the “fostering of a communal sense”;

a virtual extension of the local into what McLuhan called “the global village”—a late modern version of Benedict Anderson’s “imagined communities”;

the promotion of spontaneous rather than reflective communication; and

an orientation toward the social

Walter Ong, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (New York: Rutledge, 1982, 2002)

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