Malaysian Christians online : faith, experience, and social engagement on the Internet / Meng Yoe Tan.

Many facets of social life are now intrinsically linked to the Internet through increasing dependence of user-centric platforms like blogs, social-networking websites, online forums, and open source websites. The Malaysian Church is not exempt from having to negotiate with an increasingly tech-savvy...

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Main Author: Tan, Meng Yoe
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer, [2020]
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505 0 |a 1. Introduction: Online Religion and the Malaysian Context -- 3. Locating the "Everyday" and the "Offline" in Online Christianity -- 4. The Personal Experience: Blogging as Development of Spiritual Identity -- 5. The Institutions Perspective: Malaysian Pastors as Online Authors and Citizens -- 6. Lessons from a New Online Christian Community -- 7. Engaging Malaysia: A Grassroots Approach to Inter/Intra-Religious Communication -- 8. Re-producing Ideology: A Case Study on Facebook Christian Groups and the Bersih 4.0 Rally -- 8. Conclusion. 
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