Online Catholic Communities: Community, Authority, and Religious Individualization

ISBN-13: 9781138059757 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 142 str.

Marta Kolodziejska

Opis

Using the top three online forums used by Polish Catholics as a case study, this book explores the formation of online communities. It then looks at the alternative authority structures that emerge online and how these lead to an individualised form of religious engagement that can develop independently of mainstream doctrine.

Spis treści

Introduction  1 Understanding the relationship between religious individualisation, community, and authority online  2 Online communities as a process  3 Formation of religious authority  4 Symbolic boundaries of online communities    The permanence of community? Concluding remarks

O autorze

Marta Kołodziejska is a researcher at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, University of Warsaw, Poland.