Malaysian Christians online : faith, experience, and social engagement on the Internet

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tan, Meng Yoe
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore : Springer, [2020]
Subjects:
Internet > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Christians > Malaysia.
Christians > Malaysia > Social conditions.
Christians
Christians > Social conditions
Internet > Religious aspects > Christianity
Malaysia
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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