Religion and Online Community in African Contexts
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| spelling | oai:repository.daystar.ac.ke:123456789-40282024-02-21T16:21:57Z Religion and Online Community in African Contexts Musa, Bala A. Lando, Agnes Lucy Religion Online community Communalism African culture Cybermedia Diaspora Triple heritage Book Chapter Spirituality and religion define the African worldview and lifeworld. From time immemorial, community and religion have been the driving forces that have shaped African culture. This chapter looks at how new media communications interface with religion and community. The chapter examines how cybermedia both strengthens and threatens these critical foundations of Africa’s communal religions and religious communalism. It critiques technological and cultural determinism and indeterminism in relation to religion and online community in Africa. The questions that emerge include who sets the agenda and ethos for the online faith community or communities, when interactions, leadership structures and focal points are diffused and decentered? Others include what elements of religion in the online environment are liberating, empowering, helpful, or detrimental to the mission of faith communities. The chapter proposes ways to balance enduring core values of community with the instrumentality and novelty of worshipping under the “glocal” electronic tent. 2023-03-22T12:09:14Z 2023-03-22T12:09:14Z 2022-10 Book chapter Musa, B. A. and Lando, A. L. (2022) “Religion and Online Community in African Contexts” in the Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion. Oxford University Press. 9780197549803 https://repository.daystar.ac.ke/handle/123456789/4028 en application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document Oxford University Press |
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| topic | Religion Online community Communalism African culture Cybermedia Diaspora Triple heritage |
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