Tweet if U ♥ Jesus: Spiritual Authority, Identity, and Community in the Digital Reformation
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Transcript of 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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Tweet if You Jesus. © Elizabeth Drescher, PhD, 2010-2010 www.elizabethdrescher.net
Tweet if You Jesus. © Elizabeth Drescher, PhD, 2010-2010 www.elizabethdrescher.net
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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